Free Time at Don Boscos and in South Africa Hobbies, sports, music

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Free Time at Don Boscos and in South Africa
Hobbies, sports, music

• Michael W. Müller
• Carl-Orff-Gymnasium Unterschleißheim
• michael-w-mueller_at_freenet.de

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Tell about yourself and think about others

• How do you spend your free time? What role do
  sports, music and culture (art, movies, reading
  etc.) play in your life?
• How do you think pupils at Don Boscos, or in
  South Africa in general, spend their afternoons
  and weekends?

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The Salesian Institute in Cape Town

• Watch http//www.youtube.com/watch?vu2ip9PF-yDs
• What impression do you get of Don Bosco Hostel?
• What leisure activities are shown in the clip?

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Soccer, soccer, soccer

• Read the following statement by Nelly Burrows
  ofSalesian Institute Cape Town.
• Because these children live in shelters or on
  the streets, they cannot keep any of their own
  personal items safe, so they only play with these
  items when they come to the Salesians.  Soccer is
  their first and foremost passion, if no ball is
  available on the streets, they play with plastic
  coke bottles, or tennis balls or anything they
  can make into a kicking item. Table soccer is
  also a favourite.
•   We also have Indoor cricket tournaments, soccer
  tournaments, and we have tried netball (kind of
  like Basketball, but you cannot run) for the
  girls, but they prefer not to do sport. Realise,
  that many of these children are malnourished, and
  energy levels are not very high.  Stamina and
  long term fitness is difficult for them.  Many of
  them are also on some sort of recreational drug
  (TIK, dagga (hash) glue and other forms of
  mixtures combined with Heroin etc.).  So it is
  very difficult to get them sport fit. Rugby is
  secondary, even though we are the world champions
  (played mainly by whites).
• Sport is very expensive to play in this country,
  as sponsorships are few and far between, unless
  you are in the top.  So buying a soccer kit with
  boots, is almost impossible, if you come from a
  home with minimal or no income.

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Soccer, soccer, soccer
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Soccer, Soccer, Soccer

• Project Youth Unlimited
• Youth from Township Khayelitsha invited to join a
  soccer team
• Coaches, balls, shirts etc. financed by donations
  (Missio etc.)
• Aims integration of underprivileged children,
  teaching of important values
• See as well http//www.missio-muenchen.de/dcms/si
  tes/missio2/missio-in-aktion/projekte/youth-unlimi
  ted.html

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Discuss

• According to Nelly Burrows, what problems do
  children at Don Boscos (in South Africa in
  general?) have to face when they want to play
  soccer?
• Why do you think projects like Youth Unlimited
  are so important?
• What values can be learnt, especially by playing
  in a football team?
• The official slogan for the 2010 Football World
  Cup in South Africa is Celebrate Africas
  Humanity. What chances for the country do you
  see? (http//www.southafrica.info/2010/slogan.htm)
  

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Further activities at Don Boscos

• Steelband drumming
• Art classes
• Swimming (we have a pool where they swim
  everyday)
• Playing dominoes
• Card games
• Nativity concert, which includes an African
  flavour of drumming to it
• Computers and games

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Music/ Art (N. Burrows again)

• Once a year we have the Cape Ministrels
  Thousands of people dress up in tradional
  costumes of the old slave free day (2nd January),
  and play down the streets of Cape Town.  It is
  the biggest music event by the public in South
  Africa. Many coloured people, when they were
  enslaved during the 1800s, had a day off on this
  day, and they hit the streets with music.  Today
  it is still going strong, and growing.
• Contemporary dance is also quite popular, but a
  growing phenomena is ball room dancing! 
• Music  Many of the children love to play in the
  steel band.  They play at a big tourist site at
  the Cape Town Waterfront once a month, and also
  play at some other venues. African drumming is
  also a love for them, with natural rhythm showing
  from the very first lesson. Singing two of our
  youth have recorded an album with their amazing
  voices.
• Art  We have soooo many talented black and
  coloured artists, of all types of arts.  They
  sell their pieces at markets on Sundays.  There
  is really some amazing stuff, so different, and
  so uninfluenced!
• Many writers are emerging too.  But once again,
  publishers are sceptical all about economics at
  the end of the day.

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South African music

• Listen to the song Nomvula by Freshlyground
• http//www.capetownmagazine.com/pulse/94
• What is the song about?
• What role does it play, that the song is sung in
  Xhosa?
• How did you like the song?