It has been awhile since my last blog but not much has happened out here besides traveling 3 hours to our basketball game and two a day practices. This past Sunday we played a league game against a team called PuHu. This team is a very experienced team with everyone in their starting line up over the age of 25 except one player. The first half my team played great. We executed our offense perfectly, played the aggressive defensive our coach demands from us and everything was clicking on the court. Ending the half with a couple poor offensive decisions in a row allowed PuHu to quickly catch up. By half time we were up by 1 point which should have been 15 if it weren't for the last 2 minutes of the second quarter. Second half rolls around and unfortunately it was a whole different story. All of a sudden we couldn't make a shot, we were getting terrible calls from the refs, we were playing terrible help side defense and just like that PuHu was up by 20 points. It was so deflating because of the awesome start we had but that is the difference from being on a team with experienced players oppose to young ones. Experienced teams capitalize on their opponents mistakes and that is what PuHu did. Even for myself, I made some poor choices such as driving to the basket early in the offense and not finishing, when instead my team needed me to set the offense up and run through the plays. I also fouled out of the game which I have managed to do twice this season. Even though, I was disappointed in myself for how I played in the second half, looking back I am glad I made those poor decisions in the game. The reason is because I realize I do not want to ever feel as if I did not complete my job, which is how I felt after the game. I have a responsibility as a point guard to take control of the offense and it was clear that I did not do that in the second half. Do not get me wrong, I am not putting pressure on myself about the game and I know my entire team contributed to our lost but there are things I should have done differently in the second half. The final score was 73-53 and we are now 0-4 in league. My final stats included 14 points, 3 rebounds, 4 steals and 1 assist. To my surprise, I still was awarded Player of the Game and received a pretty cool Michael Jackson CD which is a Finnish Collection.

Our next game is this Saturday against one of the best teams in league named Catz. Sunday we travel to Helsinki to play a team called Espoo who is one of the best defensive teams in league.

Besides basketball, after our game on Saturday HoNsU is celebrating their 100th year anniversary and the girls on the team including myself, have to participate in a fashion show. I am actually excited and think this will be a lot of fun! I will be sure to update you on my weekend : )

God Bless!