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Well I forget to tell you all I did get my car, she is beautiful. I am having some problems without the camera cord but I will keep trying to post pictures. Anyways it is silver, quite small but decked out with stickers of everything from basketballs to radio contact stickers! People know I am coming down the street, the unfourtanate thing is it is a beast on gas 67 euros to fill up and doesn't last that long. When I picked it up I actually got lost and was 10 minutes late and they closed of course nobody from the team was there or anything so it was just like good luck finding it and if you dont not our problem. The next day I got my car and it is a semi automatic which basically means really bumpy ride fom 0-50. They gave it to us on empty as well I was praying I could get to a gas station... I made it. Good news is that I think I can get gas paid for if I drive to games so I drove ot the last one.
Sunday was a day off so we headed to Brussels actually it was a little town outside of Brussels and had a display of mini europe it was really cool, little tiny displays of all of Europe.
We saw a little of Brussels downtown not a lot saving it for another day as well.
LEave for Slovakia tomorrow another euro leage game, hopefully internet when I return!!!

Hey all so we had our first euroleague game last night and we won! We played Valencienes a team from France and they brought some rowdy fans with them. It was a great atmosphere as we had a bunch of drunken old men... good times! I was matched up against Gomis one of the top wings for the French National team so it was good to play against some competition. I hit a couple of outside shots so now the president is convinced he coached me well! His kiss on the cheek came awful close to the lips.
I re rolled my ankle the other day just as I thought it was getting better! I am thankful I was still wearing the ankle brace or it may have been really bad.. I guess I should still be walking around in the aircast... Ree I hope you are wearing it!

Heart to Heart with the Pres

Alright well first off it is Tuesday and no cars!! Surprised you shouldn't be that is the way it works but apparently today at 430 we can go and pick them up... he said don't forget. We were like are you serious we have only been waiting 4 weeks for the cars. Many things have happened since the last post we lost a Belgium league game... we played really bad but in our defense I don't know what on earth was going on with the balls and the rim but the ball wasn't going in! I only scored eight points so this promped our president to have a heart to heart with the whole team. He told us in his version of English that we can't blame the coach this year the last couple of years yes but this year he is good and teaches modern basketball... we can't be stuck in the 80s basketball way we have to listen to what he says. THen I got pulled bakc in the room I guess after scoring only eight points I needed a pep talk. He said probably because I didn't play in the summer I have no confidence and I need to make everyone around me better. "You are a good shoot but you don't shoot to make it... you need to shoot to kill" I should listen to him because he knows he was a player and a coach... when he was in shape! I didn't know if I should laugh or slap him both thoughts were running through my head at the same time.

I had my first Belgium waffle on the weekend... it was amazing something I really don't even think that I can describe. They are on the streets and you can get them dipped in chocolate it was so good, and surprisingly fulling.

Sunday we had off despite the loss thank goodness we scored 0 fast break points and I think the reason may have been because nobody could run! Sunday a couple of the girls and I headed into Brugge a really beautiful city with a river running throught it. We walked around, climbed 366 stairs to the top of a bell castle and took a boat ride all in all a really great trip. I will post some pictures later of the waffles and Brugge.

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New car Monday???

The countdown is on until I get the internet I can not wait! The manual cars are also supposed to arrive on Monday! The car I am driving now is awesome... the gas gauge is definetly broken and has me going to the gas station every couple of days to put in 10 more euros because I keep hearing "the cars are coming". The car has no radio just a tape cassette player I have asked around and nobody seems to have them anymore. The heater is on 24/7 even when it is off which isn't bad because it is kind of cold here the brakes make all sorts of noise which can be heard by pedestrians on the street, I thikn they are all jealous for sure!! I am excited to get the decked out Dexia Namur car complete with basketballs and sponsors everywhere!! We play tomorrow night against the second best team in Belgium so I guess it could be a good game... I don't really know. Sunday is a day off thank goodness we played 5 on 5 pretty much all practice today... we seldom do drills in practice only playing. I never thought I would have missed drill work.

Happy Halloween!

Well we got a schedule today looks as though we will have four days off in the month of November not too shabby. I know I said that I had to play a little point guard in the last games but I think I have made my concern for playing that position clear which is a relief. Now however I just guard the point guard some games... all of the sudden I am a "defensive stopper" I don't how this happened good thing in the Belgium league all the guards are short and I can use my length Euro league a different story. It is pretty funny coach told the team the other day that I was the only one who could play full court man to man press, which we do every game all game long. I am not going to lie it is tiring having to pick up and you start to feel bad when you are winning by so much but I guess they are trying to set a precedent and hoping teams will follow them and the league will improve. I know hte only reason they think I am good on D is because I try... some people don't really try on defense at all and so they are not so good but they work really hard on O!
We had shooaround this morning which consisted of 30 minute walk thru on O where he told us we needed to "hurdle" at free throws I couldn't focus after this I wasn't walking through because I don't play tonight, so the focus was officially lost at this point!

I have a phone number now for skype if anyone is interested it is 1 860 881 2144. I am not online very much but once I get the internet it should be easier to get a hold of me.
My address is

Rue de Sarpettes 30
5020 Namur Belgium

Nothing new~

Alright well we are back into the swing of two a days but there are promises of more days off to come if we play well. They have told me the internet will be at my apartement November 14th... this scares me as that is a long way away and they told us we would have our cars a week and a half ago (at least I have a loaner). Not much is really new we have a game tomorrow night... I don't play in that one apparently it is our rivals from Namur.

Well today is the quick turnaround practice so I am about to head back at it after an hour break!!

Day off!

Finally a day off!!! I guess we reached our magic number and we got Sunday off so today was a little adventure up to the Citadel. The citadel was amazing it has been traced back to the year 890. It was a lot to discover in one day so I will definetly be back but it was very extensive I will add some photos the lookout over the city was gorgeous! The citadel was targeted and changed hands a lot because of its location between the two rivers Sembre and Meuse. There is a tour of hte underground caves there as well so I will be taking that next time. Some of the pictures come from the underground passageways and Michelle and Erin you will understand that in the midst of Alias I really felt like I was on a mission. One of hte pictures is for you guys... I think you may be able to guess which one.
Things are getting better still no internet but hopefully the new cars will be here anytime! Who knows when internet will come.
I am off hopefully I make it home as I have no idea how much gas is in the car and everything is closed on Sundays so I can't get any! This place really shuts down on weekends.
Here are the pictures I included some of my house as well, excuse the clothes drying everywhere I didn't have a drying rack before but I do know.