Improvement

Hey everyone.  I know it's been over a week since my last post so I'm just going to apologize up front for not being very good about adding new stuff.  Sometimes I just need to feel inspired to sit down and write everything down.  I do have a new respect for professional bloggers though, it's rough keeping up!  Now that we have the apology out of the way, I'll try my best to make it up to you and catch you all up on what's happened the last week (or so).

As expected, basketball takes up most of our day.  We are still doing two-a-days, but now they are more tactical rather than agility.  However, coach is still doing a VERY good job at still incorporating full court drills with lots and lots of running, usually those are in the morning practices.  We have had about 3 or 4 scrimmages against this boys team ( I think they may be high school)and there is drastic improvement from the first time we played them.  Any time you can see improvement in the team it's very gratifying from a players perspective, and I'm assuming from a coaches perspective as well.  Tuesday we did very well in our scrimmage, so yesterday we got the day off (pinch me) and went in for full body massages (you must not have pinched).  Basically it was a very relaxing day.  What's very exciting is I'm expecting my legs to be able to function at full capacity when we practice now..*tiger fist pump*.

Still getting stares whenever we walk around town.  I actually got a little bit testy and yelled out "HELLO!"  to a major stare offender on the way to practice a few days ago.  I can handle the older people staring, but when it's a mean girl stare from a 15 year old it grinds my gears a little bit.  If any of you have seen the movie Inception, it reminds me of when they are in someone's dream and the people would all just stop what they were doing and stare directly at them because they sensed a foreign presence.  Pretty much just like that, except no Leonardo Dicaprio.  I'm just going to assume that this whole staring issue isnt going away anytime soon.

One thing I have noticed here is that the pace is very slow.  In Missouri, if you go out to eat the waiters and waitresses bring you the bill as you are done eating, and sometimes even before.  It's a pretty moderate pace, when you are done you're done.  Here, however, you sit down to eat and you don't see a waitress for a good 10 or 15 minutes.  Then when it's time to pay it could be another 20 or 30 before the bill is even placed on your table.  People just go to these places and relax for hours.  It's funny how antsy I was getting and how impatient I felt at this restaurant we went to a few days ago..  Guess that's going to be another adjustment for me.

So yesterday evening there was a thunder storm and it was  raining fairly hard and the thunder was so loud.  The lights flickered a few times which made Sue (my roommate) and I realize we don't have flashlights in case our power goes out.  And the award for immediately causing my parents to lose sleep goes to....

Anyways, everything is going well and I'm very ready for season to start up.  I'm still keeping up with the Griffs athletics every week thanks to Ryan and Brett and their GSI show. I always look forward to seeing those every week.

Thanks for reading, until next time..

Jess