Hey,
Soo these last few weeks have been kinda crazy and with no internet it makes it hard to keep you all updated.
Up until now my team has been training 4-6 times a week with practices, games, and running (my favourite).
Last Wednesday my team went to a tournament about 4 hrs away. I started the trip off great misreading the french text message and arriving at the meeting point 45 min late!! Luckily i had brought some of my homemade cookies on the trip and soon all was forgotten :)
We arrived at our first game (vs a D1 team, 2 levels above ours) and i was told that the first 2 games would be a half each for the goalies and that i would start the first game. The game went okay seeing as how we were playing a team way above our level and i did okay as well.
We woke up at 8 the next morning, ate breakfast then were off to practice. Right now in the south of France it can be as hot at 40++ degrees outside, so playing inside at anytime of the day is very very hot and sweaty.
The second game was much like the first, i played 2nd half and we lost but again we were playing against a D1 team and had little chance of winning and our goal was just to learn how to play with each other.
Friday morning was the same as the day before, wake up, eat, then practice. That night we played vs a D2 team that had placed 3rd last season, our team was starting to show signs of fatigue but come game time it didn't matter. My team tied the D2 team 26-26 and i played in net the whole game and played well (even if i do say so myself).
On Saturday we played 30 min vs a N1 team and 3 min vs a D2 team because one team dropped out due to too many injuries.
I was told that we will play the N1 team early in our league season so the coach would not play against them in the tournament because the game was not important and he wanted to "save" me so that they wouldn't play against me before the league game. I then played the last 30 min vs the D2 team and we lost but my coach sat 2 of our starters due to injuries. So over all it was a very good, but tiering week.
My coach gave us monday off so we all had some well needed time to rest our bodies. Other then that it's 3 handball practices and 1 running practice this week.
September 10 is our first game and its for the France Cup so we will play against Ajaccio in N3 (the first team i played for when i came to France). The game will be played in Ajaccio so i'm very excited to see some of the players and friends that will come watch the game.
I was told i will be moved into my new apartment (across from the beach) on the 1st so i should have internet after that and will no longer have to go to McDonalds and steal their internet :)
Thats about all for now.
Bisous
