Thanksgiving

Today is Thanksgiving, and its my dad's birthday, so I am missing my family and the celebration a lot. Today I had a basketball workout in the morning and then I went to our fitness center. I had a 20 min. walk home from there and I thought a lot about what I'm thankful for and how many blessings I have in my life. It was a little chilly and drizzling the whole way home, but it really didn't seem that bad or very long because I had so many things to think about and to be thankful for. :)

Today at practice a group of young guys from Honduras who are in a band came to our practice to meet us. Our club is sponsoring them and they are all orphans and really making something out of not having much. They performed a concert last night in Marburg and I guess they're becoming a big hit in Hondurus. They brought us some really cool Spanish carved wood, and said a few things through a guy who translated for them. Dani, one our teammates spoke some Spanish to them too… then they sang a little for us. It was really good. I was impressed.

Wednesday I had to work with the school kids in the gym all by myself for 3 hours. Usually I'm there just helping out Hans and don't have to run everything alone. So it was quite an experience. The first hour and a half was young kids, but two 14 year old girls from our club came to the gym and helped me out with the translating. It turned out to be pretty fun. The second hour and half group of kids were easier to work with because they understand English much better. Time actually went by faster than I thought it would and it was ended up being pretty fun.