So my birthday was last Wednesday and let me tell you the days leading up to it were NOT the best of my life... I really needed to slow down and enjoy life...Things really started to turn around right at 12:00 though... I had a ton of hilarious text messages and awesome early birthday presents!!! My mood was instantly changed. Then I went to lunch with my coach from college, Pete. It was super fun to catch up about vball and life. I spent the rest of the day packing up for Chicago and playing my guitar!
(Wait lets back track a bit... I was in Madison since I got home from Wiesbaden, Germany last May. I spent the summer running volleyball camps with my friend Sheila, for our new business that we named Sports Up, after the workout place we went to every day (well were supposed to go to everyday) in Germany. Besides all of the camps I spent the rest of the summer playing in beach volleyball tournaments and enjoying being back in the States! For the fall I spent my time coaching at Oregon High School, just outside of Madison. I had the most amazing season, even though our record wouldn't show it. I absolutely adore these kids, and was super lucky to really have an awesome group of coaches to work with. So I just finished coaching the season (which I think I was slightly depressed for a bit after, because I missed my kids so much...)
Soooo back to last Wednesday... I was getting ready for my Bday dinner at the gritty and had just gotten off of Skype with my roomie from Germany, Erica Lott! The coolest EVER... right so just got of the Skype and I get another call... this time it was from my agent. He told me there was a team in CYPRUS that was interested in me but it was a lower level and less pay than last year...however, IT WAS ON THE BEACH! I said "oooohhhh emmmm geeee" YES-A!!! So now begins the waiting game...
I had an AWESOME bday dinner and then went home for round two of bday events with the family. This consisted of TBELL, Movie Night, and of course CAKE! (Orange for Oregon where I coach). It was an awesome time and since then I have been unpacking and repacking until I found out more about Cyprus.
I heard today that I need to have the bags packed because the flight is being bought for probably sometime this week! I started doing some research on the team and the town...
LARNACA, CYPRUS...
http://www.wordtravels.com/Cities/Cyprus/Larnaca/Overview
So as you will read... Larnca is a BEACH town with winters in the high 50's to Low 70's and is NOT a Greek island... even though it is an island in the Mediterranean and they speak Greek (My Bad)
Our club has a Men's Soccer team and Basketball team as well as a sports academy that I might be able to coach some youth volleyball at!!! So many fun and exciting things!
Also a few differences about our club! We have team colors!! As you can tell by my blog our colors are Green, Yellow, and Black! Sweet! We even have a mascott this year which I think is some kind of warrior or something haha not sure because I can't read Greek! We also have a much lighter schedule than Germany... We practice 4 times a week and 1 game a week! YES THAT MEANS 2 DAY OFF!! I KNOW! I am so excited also because we play on Tuesday and then Sat morning practice, Sunday OFF, and Monday is not till 7:30 at night so we practically have the weekends free. I can't wait!
I will be sure to take pictures when I get to town so you all can see everything!
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