SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS – After arriving in the mountains of Chiapas, the Inter Campus staff gave four days of courses and training at the Escuela Secundaria Autonoma Municipal Zapatista ‘La luz de la nueva Sabiduria hacia la esperanza’.
Here pupils normally alternate 30 days of study with 15 days of holiday/work in the family milpa (cornfield). The school has its own teachers and a group of women who take care of the cooking.
During the visit of the Inter Campus delegation, consisting of operations
manager Christian Valerio and two coaches, Silvio Guareschi and Gabriele
Raspelli, the days were intense and broken down into the following schedule:
06:00 – wake up
06:30 – warm-up and physical activity
08:00 – desayuno (breakfast) of rice, beans and chili peppers and coffee
09:00 – two training sessions with the boys and girls of Inter Campus
12:00 – a break for pozol (traditional drink made from corn)
13:00 – training and demonstrations with local instructors
15:00 – comida (lunch) with rice, beans and coffee
16:00 – educational and recreational activities with children and instructors
17:00 – shower
18:30 – white rice for dinner
The attitude of the Zapatista students towards sports is characterised by its lack of individualism, self-promotion, performance anxiety, stress, and aggressive competition.
Sport is of considerable interest to the children and adults, and Inter Campus
acts as support for the development of the educational system of indigenous
people. We can define it as ‘the other sport’, whose fundamental
characteristics are the concepts of equality, group spirit and respect for
one’s fellow man.
Back in Mexico City, the delegation met all the children and representatives of the Inter Campus project in the capital. Then a Sunday was spent on the football pitches of the ‘Valle de Ecatepec’ University, where the children took part in a recreational mini-tournament run by local instructors.
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