Talofa Room 11,
Yesterday was a busy day with our team winning 20 medals - have a look at the blog for the tally.
And the only girl in the NZ Wrestling team, Tayla Ford from Christchurch was awarded the top female wrestler of the championship - cool, huh!
This morning, most of the competitiors went by traditional Samoan bus to a beautiful island for beach wrestling and lunch at a luxury resort (nice!) that was destroyed in the tsunami. The NZ manager was supposed to wait for me, but he wanted to go and join them as soon as he got his rental car, so I'm hanging off the net and chatting with you.
The championship is a knock-out competition, so poor Cameron was up against the best male wrestler in the whole champs, an Australian named Blake, in his first bout! So of course, he lost, but he was very pleased that he lasted 50 seconds in yesterday's match.
And I'm really pleased that he didn't break Cameron's collarbone, like Blake did to another Aussie when they were competing for gold on day 1!
Everyone you meet here in Samoa is very upset about the earthquake in Christchurch and at the beginning and end of the wrestling, the head of Samoan Wrestling offered prayers and thoughts to Christchurch and New Zealand. I'm trying not to think about it - it's too upsetting!
I'm going to go and see if I can get to the beach somehow and join the others.
Tofa soifua!
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