JSFA Season Ends
The first season of the Jakarta Schools Football Association tournaments closed on 14 May 2006 with the Digital 1 knock-out Cup Finals. Sean's team (BIS A under 9) had romped away with the league, winning all of their games. However, they got a rude shock when they were soundly beaten in the Cup Final by a strong ESCI side. Still, despite that final disappointment the boys had a great first season and enjoyed playing in a superbly well organised football league.
The final day closed with a Gala Evening at the International Sports Club in Jakarta and the trophies and medals were presented by ESPNStar Sports TV football pundit Paul Masefield and 2 of the presenters from the Football Crazy show, 'PJ' Roberts and Sheihk Haikel. Everybody had a great time and the guys from ESPN were fanatastic with the kids.
After recently receiving his ABRSM music certificates for piano & drums and picking up his league winners medal and cup runners-up medal for the football, the following week Sean picked up a silver medal at the first BIS Judo festival.
All he can think about now is picking up a trophy for golf !
Mum and Lilian are firming up their plans to come and visit us in August and we are all looking forward to having them stay again. We are planning to go to Thailand in July for some sightseeing in Bangkok and golf in Hua Hin and trying to persuade our old friends Alan & Anchena to join us there if they can manage it. We haven't seen Achena and the children, Alana & Anthony, since they left Jakarta for Wagga Wagga, Australia 3 years ago and only seen alan briefly when he popped in to Jakarta for a couple of days over 2 yearsa ago.
But before all that, we have the World Cup to look forward to in June. It is going to be a tiring month with a lot of the games being broadcast live on the TV in the early hour of the morning. New England caps and t-shirts have already been bought and we have might get a new TV too !
At the end of June our friends, George, Sheila and M5, are going to San Diego for the Junior World Golf championships. Their youngest daughter, Celine, has qualified for the Under 9 section of the championships. What a thrill for them. We will be very excited too, especially as we were responsible for the whole family ditching their tennis rackets and taking up golf !
So an England triumph in Germany and Celine winning in San Diego would be a nice run up to the holiday season and the before we know it, we will be back in front of the TV watching the English Premier League again in mid August.
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