Basketball Slam In Amsterdam

On Saturday I went to Amsterdam with my basketball team. My basketball team was made up of 4th graders, 5th graders ,6th graders and 7th graders. we went to Amsterdam in a really nice school bus. i sat next to my friend Steven.  He's the only other 4th grader who is on the team.  We only get to play this tournament and then we have to wait until next year to get to play again because 4th graders aren't allowed to play.

When we got there we started playing almost immediately. we played the Amsterdam Bears, the Rotterdam Sharks and a mix of Amsterdam students. we first played the Bears and won by a landslide. next we played the Sharks and they weren't very good so we won. then finally we played a mix of the Amsterdam team and won so we went undefeated. i  had a really good time.  I got to play 2 quarters in each of the games except the last one Steven and I came out early because the other team almost came back and we needed our best players in there.

Here's me and one of my best friends, Steven.  He's going to leave our school to go back home to Canada at the end of the school year and I'm going to miss him.

My other best friend, Jax, is going to be leaving too.  We have 2 new kids coming to join our class after Christmas and it's a boy and a girl but Mrs Holcroft doesn't want to tell us too much about them because she said it's better to wait and hear about them right from them.

Earlier that morning Sinterklaas came and I got four presents battle ship, mijn eigen broeikas at least that is what it is in dutch, ipad case and a portable bluetooth speaker, and a spirograph. i also got lots of candy like candy canes, kitkats and york mints. my friends at school told me it was fake and i thought so too but it turns out i was wrong about it.

Mom made me take my picture with Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet, but you really can't even see Piet in the picture.

Then Nan came and I took some pictures with her.  There was also the biggest tree there at the mall and Mom and I went up and walked through it.  It had a big light tunnel through it that was cool.