PlayMonday –
Eleventh!
Before anything, I will present our professional team
of serious athletes! These are athletes that don’t laugh, they can keep their
serious look due to an exhaustive daily training they do for many years!
Winners of various contests, this is their debut in a World Championship, but
it wasn’t a motive for being nervous. In this picture, from the left to the
right, and with her best equipment is Joana (Occupational Therapist), Gabi
(Coordinator Nurse), Victor (Physiotherapist) and Raquel (Psychologist). Behind
the digital camera with a very serious face, me, Inês (Nurse)
.
In our Recreation Room where our clients, that weren’t
suspecting that they were going to be surprised by these federated athletes.
Where they going to fight until the end? Would it be too easy to not laugh?
First serious round! Victor comes in, adjusting his
serious glasses and strikes Mr A.: “you can’t laugh, otherwise you lose!”. And
our client replied “let’s see who loses”. And so they began: eyes on eyes,
without winking, much concentration and some silly faces to distract Mr A. that
resisted for some seconds but he couldn’t hold it much longer!
Meanwhile, Ms M reminded of our second Play Monday and
said: “Ah! Its that game where we can’t laugh! Let’s do it again!”
At the same time Gabi put her new nose and stared to
Mr J.E that fought until the end. In the end they agreed that a draw was the
most fair for both.
Joana, with her seriously red nose, stares intensely
to Ms J. that quickly started to laugh “I can’t hold it, I can’t have a serious
face” and the much she would say it, the more she would laugh.
Then, Raquel jumps to the scene with her confident
nose and strikes Ms C. that observed “you look very pretty”, but Raquel didn’t
let herself get distracted and tried really hard to make Ms.C laugh, but she was
able to overcome all the attempts.
So, the four professional athletes used other tactic, striking with a group of
two, three, or with more complicated opponents, four!! And with that it was
impossible not to laugh. Even our athletes couldn’t resist and started
laughing, after that there was no more serious moments in that room.
Ms Perpetua (General Services Auxiliary) tried to beat
Raquel and Gabi in this game, but she didn’t succeed.
After that, we went to all the infirmaries and the
second serious round started! First Ms F asked us what were we doing and in the
end asked us to dance. Since our athletes are qualified to all the modalities,
that wasn’t a problem!
Mr A. got very serious, but only for a short time,
since it was hard to resist to our four super athletes. Now, our hardest
client, Mr P. that rarely laughs. We thought that he could get uncomfortable
and agitated but we decided to go for it. And we got surprised with his
curiosity, trying to understand why our athletes where there so concentrated on
their task… after some seconds he showed us a tiny smile and that was one of
our biggest victories in that day. From one infirmary to another, from a smile
to smile, we had seriously smiling winners.
Even the blog translator, Micaela, without knowing,
went to the unit and was attacked by Raquel that easily made her smile.
To finish this Championship, the athletes tried to
confront each other, but I had the feeling that, those exhaustive years of
training were for nothing since none of them could keep staring seriously. Word
of the day: LAUGH!
Thank you to all of you that made this World
Championship possible!
