Sport/study weekend

Weekend two without parents was quite fun. I watched Ben’s hockey match. He doesn’t play for the Lewes hockey club but for hockey club East Grinstead, which delivers the team of Sussex. Sussex is one of the British counties. Lewes is located in this county as well. One different thing between Dutch and English hockey teams is that the teams are mixed. In England, you have boy/girl teams and teams for men/women. The boy/girl teams are usually the same age. The teams for men/women differ from boys the age of fifteen/sixteen and men the age of thirty! Normally, boys play in boy teams till the age of thirteen/fourteen and then join a men team. You don’t play in a-, b-, c- teams, like in the Netherlands, but in men and women one, two, three…, eight, etc. The hockey club is serious in the middle of nowhere! It is in the middle of a forest with no villages or big cities around it. Another ‘weird’ English habit is that most of the  hockey teams first start with a training before they play a match. I don’t get that, because Ben told me that you lose lots of energy in this training. This makes you tired during the match… That’s just stupid!!! –__– After Ben’s match, who plays for men two, the first men team played an important match against another county. We went inside to get lunch, and the first thing I noticed was a huge television with lots of ‘older’ people watching a football match (on a hockey club XP): Liverpool against Manchester. Lots of English people worship Robin van Persie. He is top scorer of England and plays fair game. Lunch was nice! At home, I skyped for the first time with my family and enjoyed my last weekend at Ben’s.

I slept pretty long next day, till around twelve o’clock… Ben went off to visit his girlfriend, and I went into village. I walked through the village and met some friends. I didn’t stay long in the village, because the next school week, I would have a VERYYY busy week.