When I woke up this morning to the flash backs of last nights game which featured instant replays of missing 3 free throws and many jumpers, I decided to do some laundry. So, a bit upset I begin to get all of my clothes together, separate the whites from the darks and head down four flights of stairs. As I get outside I can not help but notice the beautiful white SNOW everywhere. I felt like a kid in the candy store because in an instant I was showered with so much joy and excitement. It was like a scene from a movie, the scene was so beautiful and perfect. There was about 2 inches of snow on the ground, snow covering all of the trees, the weather was perfect, the air was fresh and everything was white. It looked and felt as if I just entered heaven and God told me "Mandy, job well done". Unfortunately, this fairy tale start of my day ended immediately when I got to the laundry room because I get so irritated when the laundry machine decides not to work for me. I think that particular machine enjoys getting my heart beat racing and seeing my body tighten as I am 'frustratingly' trying to get the machine to stop making that beep noise it does when I push the wrong button. That machine is so annoying! lol Just to clarify for you, I am well capable of doing laundry, the machines here are all in Finnish so it is hard to figure out what the buttons mean : )
Enough about being in heaven for a couple minutes and ridiculous Finnish laundry machines. I am sure everyone is more eager to hear about our basketball games. First, we finally got a post player named Vanessa Gidden, who is pretty good! woo hoo I know so exciting!! She is 6'3 played at Hofstra University, which I have to add LMU beat my freshman year In the Miami tournament : ). Straight out of college she made it until the final cut of the Connecticut Suns WNBA team. After the cut she played for a team in Turkey who went undefeated for the season. Since her arrival we played two games and in both games our team looked so much better! Unfortunately we lost both games which we really should have won! The first game was to a team called Peka who is the defending champions. We ended up losing by 8 points which sucks because we are better coached, better conditioned but we could not make a shot. Our team shot like 17% from three point line and 25% from the field, and 56% from the free throw line which is terrible but even with the bad shooting we only lost by 8. The second game was last night against the Huima team. We lost by 1 point and again we should have won but we had to many spurts of missing shots, free throws and not taking care of the ball.
Our next game is Sunday against FoA and we are going to WIN because we keep getting closer and we are getting better!
I love you all and God Bless : )
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