Good Life

Ever since we got back from Prague, the weather has be UNBELIEVABLE!! It has made it sooo hard to stay inside and do school work. Most of our days are spent at the Kensington Park, a couple blocks away from our campus. We either do homework there and bring blankets, take a stroll in the park or mainly kick the soccer ball around. It has been so much fun getting a bunch of us in our program who have or haven't played soccer to try to juggle or play pick-up soccer games. Also since the weather has been nice, one of our housing directors, Thomas (who is by the way is the cutest English Man I have met since being here) anyways, he's in his late 20s maybe early 30s and has organized pick up soccer games for every Friday afternoon. He sends emails out early in the week so everyone in the program who wants to can join in the park to play soccer. Literally it has been so amazing and so much fun. SO much fun. It has made me really miss soccer though but that's okay because I can actually play now without my knee hurting!

A couple weeks ago, only a few of us showed up to play Friday. Instead of playing 6 on 6 or 7 on 7 like we had played in previous weeks, we only had enough to do 3 v 3..... thus a lot of running. It was also extremely hot that day. Got a sweet tan actually. That's besides the point...afterwards, we decided to go jump in the pond that was located  in the middle of the park. Many people thought we were crazy. When I said it was hot, I was talking like 60, 65 degrees. When we jumped into the pond, people started to take pictures of us. In the pond, there are little row boats you can rent as well so  people rowing by also snapped some shots of us as well. The water was BEYOND freezing. I had jumped in with my tshirt and shorts and when I got out I was soaking wet, with nothing to dry off with. Making the truck home made me resent jumping in.  

One afternoon, instead of playing soccer, we decided to throw a baseball and frisbee. There was a group of probably 6 or 8 of us in a huge circle right near the pond tossing the ball and frisbee. You had to be on your toes because you had to watch for the frisbee and baseball. I freaked out one time when the ball was thrown to me and then a second later the frisbee was thrown to me too that I accidentally chucked the baseball into the pond. The ball had landed just far enough into the pond where you it was arm distance away, almost reachable but not quite. It was a the tip of our fingers. This kid Tyler almost fell trying to reach for it. We didn't know how deep the water was  so we literally had a line of the 6 of us holding arms to dip Tyler over the pond to try and grab the ball. Yet again, people surrounding the pond took pictures of the stupid American kids trying to get a baseball out of the pond. They probably just didn't understand why  the baseball  was that important to us, considering they don't have baseball in the UK.

 

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