This year I played on the under 12 basketball team for my school. I played position 5 & 4 because I was tall and a good shooter.
In this picture on the left you can see some of my teammates, Arman, Cassius, Antony, Aticus, Aman, Bjorn, Dominic, Kevin and Max. This was at one of our many away games that we got to travel to and this was at Luxembourg and we were in the stands waiting for our turn to play.
The night before we stayed with players from the Luxembourg team at their houses and I had a really nice family to stay with.
In the picture below you can see Aunt Bear and Lauren in the stands behind the basket. They missed the first half of the game because Mom was a dingbat and forgot to tell the driver to bring them right to the school so he brought them to our house first instead. (It's ok, I can say that because Aunt Bear says it all the time. Or maybe she calls her a Pinhead, I don't really know with those two.)
I feel like I got better with my shooting during basketball because of the practice with my club team where we really worked on shooting drills and I learned how to shoot with one hand really well. Here's a picture on the left of my club team and me with the medal we got for club ball.
All of the kids on my West Malle Club team only speak Dutch, but it doesn't matter because I understand enough now that I can communicate with them and the coach and easily understand them. It all works!
My school team had a lot of players who were new to basketball and they had to learn the basics about the game and so most of the time we had to work on really simple things. But we were able to travel to a lot of different countries and when we played at the final big tournament of the season, called NECIS, we stayed in a hotel for 4 nights and played at least 2 games every day and traveled like a college team all around. It was a really great experience.
Nanny, LaLa and Mom came to NECIS and while they were there they visited this castle in Germany and here's a picture of a mini-maze that Mom says was built just for Nanny and LaLa to go through.
This is a picture of this really amazing building in Rotterdam called the Market Hall, the city where the NECIS tournament was, that has all of these markets where you can buy all kinds of foods and it also has little cafes and restaurants. It looks like an aircraft hanger inside, but people live in the upper part in apartments or townhouses.
In this picture on the left you can see some of my teammates, Arman, Cassius, Antony, Aticus, Aman, Bjorn, Dominic, Kevin and Max. This was at one of our many away games that we got to travel to and this was at Luxembourg and we were in the stands waiting for our turn to play.
The night before we stayed with players from the Luxembourg team at their houses and I had a really nice family to stay with.
In the picture below you can see Aunt Bear and Lauren in the stands behind the basket. They missed the first half of the game because Mom was a dingbat and forgot to tell the driver to bring them right to the school so he brought them to our house first instead. (It's ok, I can say that because Aunt Bear says it all the time. Or maybe she calls her a Pinhead, I don't really know with those two.)
All of the kids on my West Malle Club team only speak Dutch, but it doesn't matter because I understand enough now that I can communicate with them and the coach and easily understand them. It all works!
My school team had a lot of players who were new to basketball and they had to learn the basics about the game and so most of the time we had to work on really simple things. But we were able to travel to a lot of different countries and when we played at the final big tournament of the season, called NECIS, we stayed in a hotel for 4 nights and played at least 2 games every day and traveled like a college team all around. It was a really great experience.
Nanny, LaLa and Mom came to NECIS and while they were there they visited this castle in Germany and here's a picture of a mini-maze that Mom says was built just for Nanny and LaLa to go through.
This is a picture of this really amazing building in Rotterdam called the Market Hall, the city where the NECIS tournament was, that has all of these markets where you can buy all kinds of foods and it also has little cafes and restaurants. It looks like an aircraft hanger inside, but people live in the upper part in apartments or townhouses.
One of my favorite people that we housed were the people from Bonn. The two boys we had were a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to seeing them again next year.
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