Week 3: writing about pleasure

Lennart Deelstra

Horrible tackle breaks leg of Eduardo Da Silva

The Croatian striker of Arsenal broke his leg during the game against Birmingham. Because of that injury he will probably not be at the European Championships this summer in Austria and Switzerland.

After three minutes was Da Silva tackled by Taylor, who was directly sent off the pitch. The 24-year-old Croatian got medical assistance on the pitch for eight minutes. After that he has been brought to the hospital. Some of Da Silva’s teammates were devastated after the incident.

There is no information about the diagnosis of the injury at the moment. Skysports, who broadcasted the game live, didn’t show any replays of the horrible tackle because the images would be too schocking.

The game itself wasn’t great for the Gunners either, the leader of the Premier League didn’t win against Birmingham. Birmingham scored first by James McFadden, but Arsenal got in pole position after scoring two goals. But at the very final moment in the extra time, Birmingham received a penalty and took advantage of it.

Arsenal still leads the championship, but Manchester United is just three points behind. Man U mastered Newcastle with a 1 -5 score. Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Louis Saha scored the goals for Manchester.

Stef Heivers

Okay, so this is the third week of our blog task. The subject ‘Leisure’ has been given to us. For this week, I’m going to talk about my youth movement. About a quarter million children and youngsters participate weekly in one of the various youth movements active in our part of the country. Chiro is one of the biggest: in about one thousand local groups, Chiro Flanders unites around 100,000 members. In almost every municipality. Probably Chiro is one of the most famous youth movements. But of course there are a lot of other youth movements. For example: KLJ, KSA...

I’m also participating in a youth movement: KLJ. It’s nearly the same as an other youth movement. It has been 9 years since I joined the KLJ. We meet every Saturday from 2 ‘till 5 and then we do a lot of fun stuff. For example this Saturday we are going to swim in a local swimming pool. All of my best friends are in the KLJ and most of the time we go to a bar afterwards with a whole bunch of friends, so it’s always very amusing.Every month we meet also on Friday for a 16+ activity. That stands for a lot of fun. Mostly during those Fridays we play poker and drink some alcohol. Since this year I’m also a ‘leader’, so I have to make up fun tasks for the little children in our KLJ movement. First I didn’t use to like it, but it’s really amusing.

Corneel Keimes

My favourite leisure activities include playing poker, playing football and going out for a drink with my friends. But my favourite is being a leader for the scouts. I’v’ been a member of the scouts for over 10 years and this is my second year as a leader and I still enjoy it very much.

My scouts group was 30 years old last year and in the same year, we reached the void of 200 members, whitch is pretty much for a small community like hoevenen. Our group is dividend into groups based on the age of the members. You have the “kapoenen”, age between 6-8, the “kabouters” for girls and the “welpen” for boys between 8 and 11 years old. Then there are the “jongidsen” and “jongverkenners” for 11 to 14-year olds. The next group are the “Givers” which is for boys and girls from 14 to 17 years old, and last but not least you have the “Jins” who are 18 years old. That last year is to prepare them for becoming a leader the next year.

I’m a leader for the second lounges group, the “welpen” which can be very tiring and frustrating because they often don’t listen or are up to misschief, but when you prepare a fun and exciting game and you can see that they are really enjoying theeservies, you get a very satisfied feeling.

You also become closer with the other leaders and they often become good friends after a year together. You also learn to communicate with parents or other leaders, and you get the chance to really learn what responsability is. In other words, the boyscouts are trully a fun leisure activity which everyone should have at least tried once.