Westonbirt School

Westonbirt School Lacrosse Tour - Tuesday 23rd March

Day 4: This morning the girls will be transferred by coach to the Baltimore area of Maryland where they will spend the majority of today exploring this fantastic city and particularly the Inner Harbor.

Subject: All well in USA

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:42

Dear All,

We're well into our Tour Experience and all the girls are already best buddies with their Bishop Ireton hosts. They were taken to the school 'bookstore' yesterday by Bill Simmons and allowed to choose a T-shirt each with the intention of winding up Paul V1 team - their great rivals. Unfortunately, they were not sufficiently intimidated and their Varsity team beat us 6-11. We were expecting to play their JV but word must have got out and they brought their reinforcements.

We had a very competitive game against BI and lost 7-11. The girls are having to respond very quickly to the high standard of play here - there are no 'weak' teams as these girls start playing when they are stick height!! Player of the game v Bishop Ireton was Tiva, who commanded the midfield and scored; most improved player was Lucy, who responded to all that was asked of her with great intelligence and effort. We haven't done the votes for the game against Paul V1 as the girls have gone to lessons with their hosts!

We had 75C for our first game on Sunday and thunderstorms yesterday - it was a miracle we played at all. We spent the day sightseeing in Washinton and have some fab pictures. We'll get them on the website as soon as we can.

Today we are off to Baltimore to go shopping in a lacrosse superstore and visit the lacrosse national museum before playing our next game tomorrow.

All girls are great company and some of their host families want to keep them! No chance, don't worry.

With love, Celia

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