Throw Back 2k21 December, A memorable visit to Jinnah Stadium
It was Saturday night when we got a message via WhatsApp from our coach. In her message tomorrow at 8 am, the presence of every player is mandatory. It was quite astonishing because on Sunday what comes up that urgent, well we have to do as it quoted by coach it comes in manner. I asked my eldest sister to take me to university tomorrow at 8am, fortunately she agreed. Actually she never comprises in her sleep and upon that morning sleep is her favourite, so i was little bit vacillate either she'll agree or refuse. Well, i got there at 8am. The whole university was absorbed in the silence, only the chirping sound of birds was audible. I got there at the gymnasium. There were only two sounds echoing "hurry up" and "why are you not ready yet". After emerging into the situation, I got to know that for the huge occasion of sports Gala ceremony, we have to go to the Sports complex at 9am. They further told me to take my track suit from mam and quickly wore it before Coach got angry. Well it was thrilling, I was happy because we were going to the sports complex just for rehearsal.
After getting ready, we came out of the gymnasium and we were waiting for the bus. After 5 minutes, our university bus came and everyone sat inside the bus. Being the representative of international Islamic University we were not allowed to play any music. So the journey was a little boring. What we did, all of us gathered in the back seats of the bus. And there we started singing on our own with rip vocals haha, but it was then getting interesting. Through by poor vocalists songs all the way, finally we reached their at The sports complex.
When we reached there, i was astonished by the crowd. Because this was one of the largest event in the history of Pakistan which was held by our prime minister, just in order to support Co-curricular actives. I saw there boys and girls were colored with different track suits and were representing the name of their university by flipping flags. More than 7000 were only the participants of 15 games (games include volley ball, hand ball, futsal, thug of war, kabadi, badminton, and so more). I loved my university track suit because the color combination was fabulous, green and black.
Our university participated in only two game at that time which were volleyball and hand ball. I were the member of game handball. Haha this was my first game i played at university level then after playing hand ball i switched my interest to basketball, which will be for life time.. Yeah
So, it was Sunday morning we got stucked in the stadium. Rehearsal was quite boring and tiring, all i had to do was March passes. Till evening we did practice of rehearsal. Internally I was exhausted badly but all of us were pretending in front of coach that we are young and still have energy to do rehearsal. After seeing our pretending act, our coach smiled. At least she got our message of being tired in a positive way.
After rehearsal we came out of stadium there was lush beautiful greenery everywhere, view was mesmerising. It was like, clouds were lying on margalla hills, maybe clouds were tired too the way were lying on each other because we were fully exhausted.
On Monday again we were called by our coach for rehearsal and on Tuesday also again called for rehearsal. But Thankfully finally on Wednesday we were called for official match. We played both volley ball and hand ball but were unable to conquer final round. So, we were second in both the games. According to our preparation of matches, it was great achievement for us because our teams practiced only for a week.
This was all about Visit to sports complex which is also known as Jinnah Stadium. The name of event was kamyab Jawan sports drive. For more detail you guys can Google it too.
Hey I was there too. Although I didn’t participate but I was among the spectators. It was such a fun day.