Thurday 24th September - the big day!

    So here we are: the big day is finally arrived!
    This morning, while having breakfast wearing our customized t-shirts, we were pretty excited about what we were going to do. As we went together to the Leipziger field the sun was shining which was definitely a good sign for us.
    As soon as Paul gave us some more information, we started working. Some of us went to take the refugees from their centers in order to be right on time at the field, all together. A girl of us went with the Wisamar crew to the supermarket: they bought all the necessary to make sandwiches and drinks for all the participants and then it was task of some girls to prepare them. When Italians notice that there is free food, well you know what happens. We were kinda hungry, in fact.
     At 14 the match should have finally started. Most of the teams started arriving soon after 13, though something unforeseen was about to happen. One team was missing and others showed up whitout having signed up. It was a problem for the whole tournament, so we had to rearrange the matches. Ok, we managed that too. Now we were officially ready to start!
    The field was completely full: people playing on the two fields we created, other teams sitting on the green waiting for their turn, staff members running to and fro to get everything arranged.
    The day was incredibly busy for us all: the boys were playing in the tournament with a team - Dinamo Delio - while the girls had to split tasks such as prepearing and serving the food, writing down the results, communicating with the teams. The atmosphere was really nice, with many nationalities mixing together  and everyone seemed to enjoy the match.
    It was then time to check the scores and see who was going to  play in the finals. We were all very nervous at this moment, since many teams hoped to win. When we finally got the names of the best teams, we all rejoiced: our team was playing too to get the third place! The other teams playing were the Forest, who played against our team, and the International and Tourgau Strasse fighting for the first place.
   Though the climate among the spectators was really tense, everyone was happy when te winners were announced: the Forest got the third place, Tourgau Strasse the second and finally the International team were the absolute winners of the game!
   The most important thing in out tournament was not winning, but having fun all together in a day that everyone would remember for a while. After the names of the winners were announced, certificates and t-shirts were distributed to every participant and medals were given to the winners. We also had some musical entertainment by the folk band Widarsihtig and everyone had one more chance to get free drinks and food from out buffet.
    Slowly all the players started heading home and we remained alone, the music still playing, tidying up the field. We were definitely tired, but so happy to see that the event was over and was definitely a success!
   
    So this is now the end. The end of this blog but more importablty of a journey that lastes three weeks and got us here, to see with our eyes the final reault of much effort and hard work. Thanks to everyone who took part in the tournament, but above all thank to every member of the staff group. All the days spent together between work at the office and laughs through the streets of Leipzig won't be easy to forget. We all made this experience special!