Gornesti Sports Camp

Sports camp in Gornesti was so much fun!  It lasted from Monday-Saturday.  We did a different sport each day - Monday was soccer, Tuesday was Handball, Wednesday was Volleyball, Thursday was Basketball, Friday was Javelin, Archery, Horseback Riding, and Fencing, and Saturday was Soccer again.  It seemed that each day more youth came.  Of course, soccer is their favorite sport and they were so talented and intense during those games.  Handball is another favorite, and many of the girls loved it and played well.  I had fun learning how to play handball, which had a lot of dribbling.  At first my team put me in the goal - big mistake!  I finally convinced Zoli to let me play because I can dribble well.  I especially enjoyed the Volleyball day, it made me so happy to see them trying something somewhat new and getting better throughout the day.  Of course, it also tested their patience and perseverance.  

Each day at the beginning of camp, there was worship music in Hungarian and some English.  Then Jason would share a message with Attila translating.

 our team - Duke, Brad, me, Brianne, Anna, Melissa, Jason

 getting sweaty...

 Brianne and Adel had their hair braided by this beautiful girl.

 getting excited for volleyball

 Some of the youth waiting for camp to begin.

 Anamaria and Abigel's little girl

 our favorite guitar player ;)

 Zoli and Duke playing chess

 archery...very Hunger Games :)

 Jeno, Melissa, and Brianne

 Jason, Melissa, and their adopted son Caleb :)

 Caleb :)

 Zozo

 Zoli and Luci

 Sandor and his team praying and being silly before the volleyball match

 I think they hit heads in their huddle.

 Father and son - Paul and Jeno :)

 Anna, Duke, Luci, Zozo, and Melissa

 Scorekeepers

 Isti, Paul, and Jason

 Jason and Attila

 Melissa and Nimrod - haha!

 Duke

 Jeno and Melissa - watch out!

 Duke and Melissa

 Jeno

 Brad

 very important meeting :)  probably soccer strategy.

 Barni, Lory, Anna

 Duke and Jeno

 Szidi and Annamaria

 Zalan

 The girls on our team - me, Melissa, Brianne, Adel, and Anna

 I don't remember her name, but she was always trying to learn to play the instruments.

 Duke, Melissa, Luci, Zozo doing worship music

 Duke, Zalan, Helga, Zozo

 Fencing

 Csaba and me...look at the cool camp shirt he won for great sportsmanship!

 Referee time

 Duke and Helga

 Isti putting up the volleyball net...we don't need ladders, we have excellent climbers!

 Zozo, Jason, and Anna

 Anna and Zoli

 Our team was awesome!

 Luci, Attila, and Zoli...Zoli teaching his team how to pass :)

 Adel loved the horse.

 A few evenings after camp, we went to this restaurant for dinner...very yummy :)

One afternoon we went to the river near the camp.  Nimrod + clay + silliness = a clay fight :)  I know there were others involved - Jeno, Paul, Melissa, Brianne, but Nimrod was definitely the most involved!