My Volleyball team.

For those of you who know me, you know that I am no volleyball player. I was always ok in volleyball in nebraska, but I was never good enough to make it into A team. Now you are probably laughing at the fact that I play the one sport that I am not very good at, but here I am actually not half bad. I think I was always an okay player in nebraska, but i never really tried to play or learn the sport i was really there just to get out of class every away game. Now I play in a club, i miss no class, and i practice....alot. I think what makes playing volleyball here so great is the people on my team. I only know a few names, because I have a memory of names like a goldfish, no matter how many time I hear the name, I cant say it, or pronounce it. But the names I can remember are names that I would hear in america, but just said differently. Like there are two sarahs on my team, but of them are great in volleyball. I met them through my host sister, when she had her going away party. That is actually how i got introduced into m´playing volleyball. Sophie is another girl I know and she is actually the one who told me I should play, well she more as forced me but thats ok. The two sarahs are completly different and I always mix up their last names which they want me to call them by. Eventually they just kinda gave up on me trying to say it so when i say sarah they just both look at me and then i point and smile at the one i need to talk to. I have actually gone to all three girls birthday parties as well, which is really nice as an exchange student to be invited somewhere. Sarah z. had her birthday party last week, sophie had her birthday the week before that, and the other sarah, sarah k. is having her birthday next week. It is funny how I actually make connections through them. I knew caro who was my sister and from her I met jasmine, and through jasmine i met fabian, christine, another sarah, and sophie, and through sophie i met the entire volleyball team and it just keeps going down the line. I never noticed the connections between people untill now, and it really only takes one person to make your stay in a foreign place better, because it seems that they just introduce you and help you get a start in your new life. Caro also helped me join my volleball team, and I am glad that I am in it now. Tonight we had our first game, and i did not think i was good at all but everyone on the team said i was really good, so I dont know either they are really nice, or im not as bad as i thought i was in volleyball. Anyway we lost tonight in our game, its funny though because when we first started playing the team we were against was mostly men. I know volleyball is not just a women sport but from where I come from i have never seen a boy go out for volleyball. They were very good too, they had their hight against us, but in germany you play for fun, and its for a club not for school so It does not matter whether you win or lose. The couches on the other team laughed though because every player has to fill out a card and put a picture of themselves on it, and the card tell them who you are how old you are and of course where you come from. Now it is just expected for everyone to put germany is where they are from, but i was the only one who said america. Of course everyone got a kick out of that, and I have these red hot chili pepper shorts that i brought and somehow they were in my volleyball bag, and my entire team said that i should wear them, I have to wear them. So here I am the only american wearing red hot chili pepper shorts a.k.a my Spicy Shorts :D, overall it was a really great day untill i found out that im to old to be on my team, but once again with the whole connection line going there is a girl who wants me to be on her team, and there are people my age and with me there will be enough players to play a game. I will still go to practices with my old volleyball team though, but now I will have practice every tuesday, thursday, and now friday. So maby by the time i get back to america i will be A team material but I still think volleyball here is alot funner.