Another manic but great day is coming to a halt in Jamrock! Our day started with a light Jamaican style breakfast again to get us all ready for the long day ahead. There was no rain around at this time of the day and the heat was immense. Today has been the hottest day for the young people to deal with since we have been here. It showed with their training session the amount of sweat and sometimes tears they were producing.
Training today was going to be our last one before the first game for both teams on Sunday. The Mixed Physical team worked on their fielding again in the muggy outfield and the VI team played a pairs game on the square. Andy DW’s wife Sam has taken charge of making a film of our time in Jamaica and she interviewed Bradley Donovan today who is a young lad with cerebal palsy. Listening to what he had to say brought a lil tear to my eye. He spoke of the challenges he had being a physically disabled young person but he hoped he could show young people with a disability in Jamaica that they have the potential to achieve all they can! I thought this summed up the trip greatly. Bradley will be and is an inspiration to alot of people and the impact he will have here will be amazing!
Halfway during the training session i let Bass lead the mixed physical session with Keith and i went to play around with the local young people who were young people that lived in a shanty town nearby. They ranged from 4 years old to about 14 years old. I always find it really humbling that on overseas trips i can get down on a level with these young people who are right at the bottom end of poor and i can give them a sense of fun for a few hours while they forget of the hardships of life! I had these young people going around in Bradley’s wheelchair as they had never seen a wheelchair before and i also did a cricket session for them with Bethanie! Their natural ability to play cricket and sport in general is amazing. They are so talented and i look at this as a waste as these young people will never get an opportunity to play due to the conditions they are growing up around. If they were coached properly and this happened all over the island imagine how powerful West Indian cricket could be again…
After training we went to a 5 star resort in Ocho Rios called ‘Breezes’. We were invited here by Brian Breese from the Courtney Walsh Foundation and Mikey also joined us. They splashed around in the warm sea and had a massive but awesome buffet that was fit for kings! The one thing that we can say is that so far we have all eaten very well. Jamaicans love their food and we love their food to.
As i write this everyone is in the pool having a spalsh about (to get the sand off them) and we are going to have meeting at 7pm regards our trip ahead. This is our last night at Runaway Bay Heart Hotel, Ocho Rios before we move to Kingston for the matches but we have had some great laughs at this place! I have actually lost my voice through laughing and screaming at the mixed physical team to give them encourage but it’s all for their own good 
Now to choose a captain of the day (Lil Ronnie Jackson, The boy is brilliant and would get it most days for me)
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Adam Hall
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