Futbol Update!

Only have time for a quick update since I wasn’t planning on coming into town today. We had the soccer tournament last week finally and my team got second place! All together now… WOOP WOOP! Yay! We only played two games and I had no idea that our second game was the finals but apparently that’s how the coin tosses played out. Afterwards I found out we took second and the top two teams will compete in regionals next weekend, so that’s pretty cool! Our first game we played the same team (a neighboring village) that we played the weekend before and beat. They were saying that they weren’t ready the first time but this time around they were going to score 10 goals on me. Right… I said I know I’m not that good, but 10 goals? Really? That’s just insulting! Anyway, we beat them 6-0. :) There was a lot of smack talk going on. It was awesome! Our second game was nuts. I was exhausted by the end of the first half. I was getting shot after shot and then my team grew tired and our sweeper was injured and it all went downhill. So yeah, we lost that game 3-0. Fortunately, my coach chose to believe that the other team was using traditional doctors against us, so that’s why we were scored on. Apparently I was seeing three balls coming at me each time. I gladly went along with this reasoning. ;) It was also brought to my attention after the game that I don’t know how to dive properly. I felt the need to remind this other coach that I’m not actually a goalkeeper! haha Anyway, so last night’s practice consisted of an hour and a half of getting balls thrown at me with hardly enough time to get up between shots. Aesh! And of course, along with comments that I was still not diving correctly. I said sorry that it’s not easy to change human nature to not to want to voluntarily throw oneself on the ground! I was totally being stubborn but seriously, it’s a lot harder than it looks! Ah well, hopefully I’ll get better at it in the next two weeks.

So there you have it. Short and sweet! That’s all I’ve got time for today. I’ll update again soon! Hope everyone is doing well!