Sunday, November 25, 2012

Basketball finally started

Hi guys! I'm glad Basketball has finally started. We had a week long mini-camp where we had try outs, and I made it to the varsity team, which is the number one team. We have a lot of practices and sometimes we have mandatory 6am shootarounds and I have to wake up at 5am. I get a little tired in the week because of that. Our team has had couple of scrimmages against other schools, and I think we have a good chance to do well. We have this fund raiser thing in our basketball team where we raise money in teams of four. Prize for two teams with most average money raised per person is to get a limo ride to the Denver Nuggets game and back. They also get in early to talk to players and sit courtside. I have raised a lot of money, and I think I'm in one of the winning teams. At least I hope so.

The other thing I wanted to write about is Thanksgiving. We had a Thanksgiving break from school this week, and Thanksgiving was on November 22nd. It was my first and probably only Thanksgiving. It was fun, we had some guests over and we ate a big fat Thanksgiving dinner. It was actually lunch but we called it dinner anyway. Before eating, we all said something that we are thankful for. I am thankful for getting the opportunity to have an exchange year with a super awesome family here in Colorado. After the Thanksgiving dinner we had a little touch football game in our backyard. It was pretty great.

I had a lot of fun during this break. Brian had a break from college too, and we went to eat at Cane's chicken. It is a restaurant with only four items in the menu and they all are different sizes of fried chicken and fries. It was the best chicken I've ever had. We also went to see Skyfall in the movie theater. It was good but not the best. People are starting to decorate their houses with Christmas stuff already. I saw first Christmas decorations two weeks ago. It's just so weird how they start Christmas so early. Sometimes it's still warm enough to wear shorts and a t-shirt. It's nice considering it's almost December. In Finland I probably would've worn winter coat for a month already.

Take care,
Jaakko