Sunday July 15, 2007
Day 6 – Pula – Duga Resa
By: Anna Olson
Northern Lights 16-1
We started off today by sleeping in until about 8:45. It was still early but it was nice not to have to wake up at 7:00 like we usually do! After that we all went down to breakfast and ate the same breakfast buffet from the Pula hotel once again. It was still really good thoughJ. Then the whole team plus the coaches and moms went down to the Adriatic Sea. While me, Kaiti, Katie, and Bevy tanned, others found some rocks farther away that they jumped off of into the water. We stayed at the beach for about 2 hours and a lot of us got a little bit of color! Overall it was a nice and relaxing morning at the beach J.
After we got back to the hotel from the Sea we went to take quick showers and then eat before we got on the bus to leave Pula. Everyone was pretty happy because it was the last meal from the buffet where we had eaten the same food for like 4 days. When we got on the bus everyone went to sleep almost right away. It was supposed to be only a 2 hour bus ride but it ended up being about 3 and half hours long.
Because the bus ride had been longer then we thought it would be we only like 5 minutes to get upstairs and change into our uniforms. After we got back on the bus we went to the gym where we were going to play the Croatian youth national team. Once we got there we immediately started to warm up because we thought we were late, but it ended up that we had a whole hour to warm up. We were hitting for almost a half hour straight! They publicized the match so some people from the town came to watch our game. Unfortunately they obviously cheered for Croatia J. After the warm up I was already sweating like crazy!!
When the game finally started they made us who weren’t playing that first game stand on this little mat in the corner of the gym! Adam said that they had put us in the dog house J. Game 1 went well and we ended up winning! After that though we lost the rest but the games were all really close and we played really well. These little girls kept running on the court to wipe off the sweat marks from our dives. Kaiti was sweating so bad her shirt was maroon instead of red!! The gym was unbelievably hot!!
After the game we got back on the bus and then back to the hotel. We had exactly 18 minutes to shower and change because we were going back to eat with the Croatian team. Let’s just say me and Chelsea, who is in my room, used the whole 18 minutes because our shower was crazy! It would turn cold then hot and then like stop working!
Once we got to the gym we went and sat down with the girls from the other team. Me Kaiti, and Jordan sat by two girls named Sarah and Mattah (I don’t know how to spell her name J). They were so nice!! We talked about the differences between our countries and it ended up that we were pretty similar. It was funny to find out that all 16 year old girls have a lot of things in common no matter what country they are from! The food that we ate was actually really good!!
After we ate we went to one of the rooms that the girls were staying in. We listened to their music, or should I say our music because they listen to basically the same music as we do from 101.3!! It was cool to have them sing along with us J. We also listened to some Croatian rap and I laughed because it sounded really weird in another language. A lot of us got shirts from the girls and we promised them we would bring them shirts tomorrow because we play them again.
Before we left we took a couple of pictures together. I made sure I took one with Sarah because me and her had been having a lot of fun together throughout the night! Overall the dinner with the girls was amazing and really fun! The whole ride back we were talking about the night and showing off our shirts J. I can’t wait for tomorrow to see Sarah and all the other girls again!! All together today was one of the best days of the trip!
P.S. I miss you Marlin and I wish you were here with us!!! Haha I told you I wouldn’t forget to say hi J!!
