Kim Ewanovich Blog#4

Hello,
Sorry it has taken me so long to write this blog but the internet has been out for a few weeks (due to a fire at the resort) and we have been unable to connect with our 3G key card. But everything is up and working again so here is what has happened these last few weeks...
Three weekends ago we played our first league game away vs Pouzin it was only about a 4 hr drive away so we took the 2 mini-busses owned by the club. I started the game and played all but the last 10 min, after letting in a few weak goals i was pulled with the score +1 for us. With 2 min left in the game we were still at +1 and the other team drew 7m, i went in net and saved the penalty and we ended up winning the game 29-27. After the game the other team treated us to wine and spaghetti before we headed back on the road home.
I think everybody felt good about the first game... maybe too good because that following week we had 4 shitty practices and one brutal running practice which lead us into our first home game vs Achenheim Truchtersheim Handball (say that 5 times fast). I played the whole game with the half time score being 12-9 for us, but after a bad run from my team we only scored one time in 17 min. When we finally got our heads out of our (you know where) it was to late, we fell behind and lost the game by 2. For any team it sucks to loose the first home game but it makes it 100 times worse when the team you play is not very good and also when you have a goal of moving up for the next season. From here on out every game will count if we want a chance of moving up.
This past week the team has become focused again and we have had a solid week of training that included a running practice (yippiee) and 2 practices on friday with the first one being only for a handful of players (me included) to work more one on one.
Because my team went all the way to Corse to play in the first round of the France cup, the second round (this past weekend) we were exempted and didn't have to play. I don't get many weekends off so i took the opportunity to hop into my beat up old car and drive 1.5 hrs to visit the club i played for last season (to watch them play in the second round of the france cup). It was nice to see everybody again and they were also happy to see me because nobody knew i was coming and i have not seem most of them since June. Anyways they won the game by 2, and there is a big chance that my team (Cannes) will be playing against them in a few weeks for the 3rd round of the france cup!!!!
Next week we play Metz, which is in northern France (900km away) and to far for us to drive so we will be taking a plane on sat, play them (at 8pm) then spend the night in a hotel and return home on sunday. Metz is one of the teams in our league that has a first team in D1 so it is always a good thing if you can play well and show yourself in an N1 game incase someone is watching.
I would also like to announce i am an auntie to a beautiful baby girl and would like to congratulate my brother and his wife for there little bundle of joy.
Thats about it on my end
Bisous