Deniz’s Blog

last home game tonight. some highlights:

-zein kicked the basketball super hard at the wall because of frustration (totally understandable frustration). the refs sucked.
-zein got a technical
-kathleen’s mom’s cheering kicked ass
-i almost got a technical because all sorts of madness was streaming out of my mouth… one of the refs basically told me to shut my mouth. i told him he could go…do something to himself…(while his back was turned lol)
-80-something to 30-something I think
-coach is a douche. nothing new there.
-markus actually showed up to a game. AMAZING. I was extremely proud
-we played against a team of mothers. literally.
-one more game left on april 18th and then this season from hell is over!

ok I’m going to go pass out now because I have a history exam in about 6 hours from now. scheisser.

Scheisser = Shiza = Shit in Deutsch

We got killed in our game tonight in Locarno, but it was fun[ny]. The ref was funny, his friend who hit on Jessica was funny looking, and we played alriiiiiiight… at some points On the way back, we drove on a pedestrian path through a park– oops. Anyway, Kathleen and I got a lot of good laughs in I swear, our entertainment is superb. haha

126-18. and no, we weren’t on the winning side of this score. thank you. some girl on the other team hurt her wrist though. that was fun.

…is another friend of mine. We came back last night only to find out that we didn’t have hot water in Girasole. Then this morning we found out that a pipe burst, the basement is flooded, and we have no water. Or we can’t use it at least. We can’t even use the bathroom! I’m okay with not being able to shower for a few days, but no bathroom?! Walking across the street to Residenza Florida is going to be the biggest pain…EVER. I hope they fix this problem soooooooooon…

…is my friend. Last night, people from our residence and from the residence across the street (Florida), went ice-skating! Kara and Annabelle organized the trip, so we hopped on the bus around 8:30 to go to the rink. It was a covered rink but it was still basically outdoors. Now, my brother is probably the only one who knows how iceskating -retarded I am… and well, now everyone knows!

I hung on to the wall for a very long time… then I went around the rink once with Alexis, Tahnee, and Hayley without falling! yayyy I did go very slowly though. Anyhoo! Eddie brought his helmet and was pretty much terrified, but by the end he was getting the hang of it. Keba (from Gambia) obviously had never been ice-skating either but everyone was helping him get along as well. There was, of course, an annoying showoff who I wanted to smack in the face. Annoying kid. Actually, there were a few people who I wanted to smack in the face, but I won’t get into that.

So yeahhhh Keely was all over the ice (negative connotation) at first, then she got better. Then I finally left the wall and went around with Tahnee once, then grabbed a walker and skated with that. I must say, I am an AWESOME ice-skater when I have something to hold on to! hahah We left around 11 and some of us headed to McD’s because there was extra money from the little excursion to be spent. I got a McFlurry… but it was a Euro McFlurry– therefore it was tiny! C’monnnn…

yummy. here’s a picture that was taken before winter break when casey, anna, katie, and i went to the chocolate factory nearby. yes, i am smacking the cow. no more questions.

can you imagine swimming in water along with some deadly, flesh-eating fish? well, this man is going to do it. a 52 year-old slovenian man is going to swim the whole length of the amazon river. read about it here.

…but this made me laughhhh