A REPORT ON THE GHABSA GAMES AND "KENKEY FEST".
The
department organised gaming competition, both indoor and outdoor, on the 12th
October 2013, to climax the week’s activities. Some of the games include oware,
draft, cards, ludo, chess and a soccer tournament dubbed “aponkye cup”.
Students and some lecturers, research assistants and teaching assistants from
the department competed among themselves in chess, ludo, oware, and draft. The
highlight of the day’s events was the soccer tournament which was played among
students from the department, and the teaching staff. The opening match of the tournament was played
between the second year students and the final year students. The second year
students’ team didn’t miss the opportunity to take revenge on the final year
students’ team by scoring the final year students 4 - 0, after losing to the
final year students on penalties last year. The second year students put up an
impressive performance, but the final year students were the architects of
their own failure as their goalkeeper, Edem, the current president of GHABSA
was as more or less transparent to the football. It was a spectacle to watch
the ball pass through presido like light passing through plane glass, so many
times; perhaps next time a barrier should be set up in front of the goal post
to stop some of the balls from passing through him.
The second match of the day was played
between the first year students and the third year students. The third year
students were hoping to use the experience they have against their opponents,
but in so doing, they might have forgotten to remind their goalkeeper, Roger,
that the duty of the goalkeeper is to catch balls and not to dodge them. The
match ended with the third year students losing the match by 1 – 2. Maybe when
a “dodge ball team” is formed by GHABSA, we’ll make sure to make Roger the
captain.
The third place match was played between
the final years and the third years. The final years upon seeing the strength
of their opponents asked the lecturers present to help them out. To me it was a
really good move on their behalf since the presence of the lecturers sent fear
and panic to the camp of the third years. They feared for their GPA’s should
they score against their lecturers. In
their disorganised state the final years took advantage and scored two quick
goals in the first half. In the second half they (3rd years) gained
their rhythm and pulled one goal back against all the pressure coming from Mr.
Ekloh as the defender and Mr. Abrokwah
the midfielder. By the end of the final whistle the third years were
down by 3 goals to 1. I won’t call them losers but gallant losers.
The final match proved to be a nightmare
for the first year students as the score quickly turned into 3 – 0 after seven
minutes of the game had been played. But for the timely intervention of
Mr.Ekloh, who replaced the first year’s goalkeeper, after the third goal, the
first year students would have needed a basket to pack the goals they would
have conceded. The game ended with the second year students winning by 4 – 0
against the first year students. How Mr. Ekloh managed to concede just a goal
after the whole match, still remains unclear; well, I heard that the second
year students were to write Mr. Ekloh’s quiz, the next Thursday...
congratulations to the second year students for winning the soccer tournament,
and affirming their claim that the final year students were just lucky to have
won last year’s match on penalties.
Icing on the cake was the "kenkey-fest"; wow! For the first time I saw GHABSA members swallowing raw saliva due to the aroma of the kenkey and fish. No one could resist; not even Matthias a foreign student from Germany. He in fact devoured the kenkey to the glory of |God. It was a wonderful wow sight to behold, seeing such love and unity being portrayed as everyone dug into their balls of kenkey. We thank God for giving us a day such as that and also for everyone who made it. To those who missed it, poor you all. If there is ever a next time, make sure you run to the venue.
By Bennett Cobbiah
level 200.
