Good week!

So yeah we had a great week this week! Jess and I had good talks last night, we are almost done with 24 season 5. We went and saw Stephi play a couple nights ago against Amigos and they won in 5! It was a good game. We had the most amazing Pitas last night! I tell you, the Pita Pit in the States has nothing on this place! SO everyone needs to come visit and try the Pitas!

So to sum up last week.... Victory. I went with a group of Zoersel Volleyball players to what they like to call the 'Stage'! It is basically a volleyball camp... And it was a blast. So they had us practice for about 3 hours a day, and then everyone would get to hang out after. Well the hanging out 90% of the time turned into huge snowball fights! All the little ones got a kick out of hitting the Adults. (Mainly Me, Mitch, and Tom). So everywhere we went we created instant snowball fights! I just learned to keep the snow in my pockets.... But I did get some head shots against the young boys and so they learned quick that they were outmatched by an experienced Halo and Waterpolo player. Gotta love those head shots, bad for the hair and bad for the moral. But my downfall was I can't go hitting the little girls in the head. So I would hit them in the legs or the thick jackets and it wasn't enough to stop them! But the bright side was I had an army of little boys who didn't want to fight against me :) Well that was a little insight to the politics and war of snowball fights. The stage ended Wednesday and I can't say how Sad I was that it ended, but also how excited I was also. I was running really low on sleep. But the camp was a blast! I am also learning tons of new ways to coach from the Dutch coaches here....

Let me tell you my new favorite sport to watch in a stadium. Football. AKA Voetball. AKA soccer. I saw the Brugge vs. Valencia European League Game and it was so awesome! Brugge wins 1-0 off of an intense game. Both teams had some super near misses. Like off the pole type of misses. There was drama with one red card and several yellow cards. And when finally the goal was scored the whole stadium went nuts! It was crazy. But probably the craziest thing.... Ask an American how much it would cost to get a Hot dog at the ball game. The answer would be 7 dollars. I got Bradworst (a giant German hot dog) for 3 euros. It was so awesome I had to get another one! But all in all the game was so amazing!

To conclude, with something unpredicted, we beat the Belgium Jr National team last friday. It was sick! This team could very well end up not losing another match the rest of the season. Not to mention it was only their 3rd loss. It was awesome! This year seems to be our year for knocking off top teams. And I have to say, we where pretty clutch. We were down 25-24 in the 4th and we sided out and then scored 2 for the victory. It was sweet! Now to keep winning the rest of the year out...

Well I am checking out for now, God Bless.

Quick

Well quick update:
We lost the game we had this last weekend. I felt like it was the most important game we have had up till this point and we choked. We lost 3-1 to a bunch of guys who are twice our age. I was super frustrated. Half our team thought it wasn't THAT important. Well we dropped 2 places, and now are fighting just to keep our head above water. If we had of won, we would have had a 2 game lead over the last place teams and would have been sitting in a very good spot. Yeah I hoping they are all eating their words. Frustrating.

Tomorrow is a cup game against our in town rivals, I guess the game is supposed to be nuts. It is the semi-finals and so if we win we will be playing in the finals in Turnout. I really want to win.

Well hope everyone is having a good week....

Stupidity

The amazing thing about stupidity in today's world is the fact you can't actually prove it. Sometimes it is so clearly obvious when someone is being stupid; But because there are so many stupid people out there, stupid people will always have stupid people to support them. So they will never know that they are being stupid because they have stupid support. Its a giant circle of irony. The only thing you can be certain about stupidity is the fact that in time it will always create more stupidity. Stupid people will always end up hurting themselves, stupid causes will always implode on themselves and stupid situations will never turn out good. But once again the Irony, stupid always spawns stupid, and will always have stupid to support the stupid. So the question is, "how do you know you're being stupid?"

So its official, Gabe got cut from the Buchanan volleyball team because of "poor attitude". The funny thing is every other coach in the whole valley is wishing Gabe can play for them.

A bright note of my week is I scored 2 goals in short court, indoor Voetbal (soccer). One was on a cross to me and I put it in, and another was in the final seconds. I had the ball on the outside, crossed over to my left foot and gave it a kick. I was happy I just make contact considering it was my left foot, but it ended up going in! It was awesome! But very very lucky..... An Angles in the Outfield type of luck.

Well my weeks are going to get nuts here. Coaching tommorrow, big game sunday. Cup game next thursday, Game Saturday, Sunday girls cup game and Birthday, Mon-Wed VC Zoersel volleyball Camp, Thursday going to Champions league Voetbal (soccer) match- Gent vs. Valencia, Volleyball Match that friday against Jr National team of Belgium. Wild!

Have a good couple weeks!