Hello my dear friends, I greet you hoping you have a wonderful start of the week and everything you propose to achieve😊. In my state, began the sports party of the National and Paranacional Sports Games and of course I had to go to enjoy everything that will be presented on this day.

National Sports Games They will be held in three eastern Venezuelan states: Sucre, Monagas and Anzoátegui. I live in the latter and the inauguration took place here on Friday. As soon as word of the invitation spread, I scheduled myself to attend. One of the problems I have is that my very small group of friends, few of them like this kind of events because of their multiple occupations, the overwhelming number of people or simply because they are not looking forward to having a different time. However, when I found out that all the state institutions were invited, I went to my headquarters and looked for my group to get to the place with them. The festival is scheduled from November 8 to 15 and more than 7,000 athletes and almost 60 disciplines (57 to be exact) will participate and exponents from 27 states will meet to compete, win and obtain their quotas for international competitions. In my state, the locations will be varied, but thank God, in my municipality very close to my home, there will be some competitions of sports that I like and I hope to go to enjoy some of them. The one I like the most is women's baseball (taking advantage that we are in the season) and the one that catches my attention that I do not know what it is about is archery.

Location Hosting a national event is not easy and even more so for a national event, where not only the athletes but also the technical staff, referees, personalities, families and all the public that comes to see the emerging and experienced artists; therefore, the chaos caused by so many people gathered in one place was to be expected. I had not been in the stadium for about 10 years, which once hosted the Spanish national soccer team; today, it has been modified to include an athletics track, since this is a sport supported by the Olympic and world athlete Yulimar Montero. In general terms, I liked everything I saw of the place, so I think they did an EXCELLENT JOB, since at that time many things had been left unfinished and now everything is in place.

The moment Well, we arrived at 3:00 p.m. which was the scheduled start time. Understanding that they are athletes, delegations coming from far away (some traveling all night), and that they had to prepare for the competitions of all these days, I think that as a sporting event should start at the scheduled time. This did not happen. Even though we were all there on time, the event started three hours late. This caused the children to get annoyed, many people left and as it was dark, we could not see the delegations very well. In addition, the sound at the time left much to be desired because those of us who were watching the opening performances had trouble following the thread of what they were saying or what they were talking about. As a consequence, in some moments I also got annoyed because I did not understand what they were saying or what was happening. I hope that the competitions will be adjusted and comply with what the program says and the logistics will work better in the venues of the games.

The people Now, for the event was summoned ALL THE STATE! we are clear about that. But many of those people did not even know what they were doing there, that was very sad because they did not live the sports celebration nor did they give it the great meaning that comes from knowing that from these games may come out our new representatives in world events. There was a moment when they gave away some “batons of lights”, BEAUTIFUL! Believe me, when they were turned on they looked beautiful and later I was able to watch the broadcast and everything looked beautiful because of the light show. However, unfortunately, the culture of profiteering, hoarding and selfishness, turned that donation into a shameful spectacle, where children, young people and adults took many of them, took them away and left more than half a stadium without lights. Fortunately, cell phones did the job of illuminating the space.

Hasta la próxima.

Overall Unfortunately the show was very poor and with many stumbles, but in general I am very excited to see the athletes competing, support them and why not, connect with many of them, to convey that although they are far away (because there are many teams that I like and are not from my state) must give their best, to reach the winning medals. I hope to bring you this experience on another occasion and if anyone is in Anzoátegui or has family participating here and even if you are an athlete in competition, let me know and we can agree to go to see you representing your discipline and state😎. Thanks for the space. The pictures are my property. I made the cover in Canvas as well as the separator. The translation was done in FotoJet. See you next time.