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While waiting for the bus in Vienna

Hellllloooooo from Prague!

It's been an adventure to get here but we finally arrived late last night around 10. Once we were checked into the hostel we quickly changed and headed out for a drink.

The guy at the front desk guided us to this place called Bukowski's. It was the PERFECT place. He pretty much pinned me right on the head with this place. It was a small hole in the wall, hipster, good music bar. I loved everything about it BUT the smoke. I don't really know if I'll ever get used to people smoking inside bars.

THANK YOU HOUSTON for not letting people smoke in bars.

Well then it was back to the hostel for a good nights rest and now we're about to head off and see the sunny, lovely Prague!

:D I'll check in at the end of the day!!
Ciao.
Brittany

So this weekend was a successful one, we went 2-0 with three girls missing.

One of our setters was out of town in London while two others are suffering from injuries. Both of our middles are out due to injury. One of them broke their pinky finger in practice two weeks ago and the other one rolled her ankle pretty bad in practice this last wednesday.

So without the three of them it was a little more difficult to win this weekend but we sure did do it!!

After the game on Sunday I headed back to Vienna with my team mates Melli and Lina. I'm staying with Melli until practice on Wednesday.

Today we are heading out to go sight seeing with one of her friends. I don't know what we will end up seeing today but hopefully what we don't see today we will go see tomorrow!! :D I'll make sure to take plenty of pictures so you guys can see what Vienna is all about!

Miss you guys. And I can't help but count down the time till I'm home! It's just natural. 28 days!

Oh and did you guys have day light savings this weekend?? Does that mean we are only 6 hours apart instead of 7? :D

Love you. Ciao!

This weekend was a great weekend. With 2 home games and 2 wins added onto the W column it was a great weekend.

This last week was interesting, the girl that left the team originally and gave me the opportunity to come here and play, returned this week. Now our team has three setters which always makes it a competition in practice and warm up!

If you'd like to look at the pictures from Sunday's game here's a link.
http://www.uvf-melk.at/alben/UVF-Salzburg_4-3-2012/ #

I must warn you, my uniform is a size too small! So don't make fun of how I look. Believe me it's the most uncomfortable thing, I don't enjoy being so self conscious all the time. :D But at the same time, who cares, I'm playing volleyball!!

Enjoy the photos. Miss everyone!!

BL1-APO_UVF-Salzburg_4-3-2012

Hello Readers!!

So let's just say this week was a little more eventful than last week! ha
Monday evening I had an hour of setter training that went pretty well. The other setter Melli came in all the way from Vienna for the hour training and once it was over Melli, Renate (our coach), and I all went for some food and a beer. Thinking Melli could catch her train every half hour we didn't think much of it to just sit and talk. Well I guess we were wrong, after about 7:30 the train only comes every once in a while, so the next train out was 10:50. So Melli just stayed at my house for the night.

In the morning we decided I would go back with her to Vienna for the night to celebrate Faschings, what we call in America, Mardi Gras! It was fun, I got to meet her best friend Mario and her family. We went out for a little bit and had a lotta fun dancing.

The next day we sat around and watched some tv, then it was time to head to practice and man what this girl has to do to go to practice. She gets on two trains and then meets up with a friend who drives her another 50 minutes into Melk. And I thought my 15 minute walk was bad! ha But it was good.

Then we had practice, we were missing a few girls so it wasn't that great of a practice so hopefully tomorrow will be a lot better.

This weekend we have two away games that I hope we can win. I know nothing about any of the teams here so it's kind of interesting walking into matches not knowing anything. Definitely proves you just have to be able to play good volleyball.

Anybody have any good ideas for what to give up for lent this year? I know it's already Thursday but I'm just not sure what to give up! Let me know what you think.

Miss everyone. Ciao!