The season is under way...

Hello everybody!

Yes, believe it or not, this is Levi finally writing a long over due blog post ;) If you've been following our blog closely you might think that all I do out here is eat the great food that Maura cooks, but I have been pretty busy playing ball too! We've now had 8 preseason games and 2 regular season games. We've dropped our first two games but it's no time to panic. We are starting to gel more as a team and have had some great practices in preparation for our next game this coming Sunday in Radom (8-10 hour bus ride!). We hope to come out with great energy and play how we are capable of playing. I have really enjoyed getting to know my teammates more and more as the season progresses, and there will be plenty more team bonding time in the coming weeks due to our long bus rides across Poland. We always travel the day before the game and leave in the morning (depending on how far the trip is) and travel back to Slupsk through the night after the game. For the most part, Poland doesn't have great highway systems from city to city so much of the multi-hour trips are spent winding through foresty areas on bumpy roads and driving through small towns along the way. Right now everything is still really green and Poland is actually a really beautiful country. It has been really rainy and windy over the past week and temperatures are starting to drop with highs in the 50's and lows close to freezing. We had our first home game last week and our fans are awesome! Our gym gets really loud and its a fun atmosphere to play in. Maura and I are getting excited for visitors to come stay with us over the next month. First Maura's parents will come for 9 days and will get to watch one away game and one home game, and then Levi's parents will come for 11 days in November and will get to see 3 home games! We are soooo blessed and lucky to have family come, and we're excited for them to get a taste of our Polish lifestyle and overseas basketball experience too. Hopefully I'll be posting again very soon with some good news about our team's performance in our next two games, both of which are on the road. Hope everyone is doing great and talk to you all soon!

Levi