The first two weeks in Sonthofen/Dachau - in pictures
Then we went there the same day we picked up Ju from the airport, and this is the result:
One day we went to Munich for sighseeing with Didi, our ass-coach and tourist guide. The picture was made up in the St. Peter´s tower (after having climbed 100 000 steps... on our free day!!!)
Since I now live close to München, the possibilities of spontanious visits from my aunt Emi are increasing. The first such visit occured my first sunday here, and I also had the luck to meet my two cousins as well. What did we do? What else than went to Volksfest! ; ) Spontanious visits mean that you don´t have a clue that the person in question is gonna visit you, and in this case my friend Martina already visited me (in a more planned way). So we had a great time together!
Last week we hade our first training camp in Sonthofen and one of the days we went up the mountain to a "hütte" (family´s house which also is a restaurant) and had some special Bavarian food (kind of like Hungarian so it was not very special to me). I sat next to Oksis child Kristina and we had a great time! On the other pic you can see Ju, KK & Li
Tomorrow we´re leaving for another training camp for two weeks and after having one day free (with maybe one practice) we will leave to our first tournament in Austria!
Peace! (of sh**)
Our first guests & new youtube-clips
After dinner vi started watching clips on youtube, and I saw some new funny ones I didn´t know before. I would like to share some of the bests with you here...
Nr.1. I find this one really good, Daft Punks song danced by two girls but look at how creative they are!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSio9Bprnw
There´s also a male version of it and millions of others that tried to do the same, but this one is the original!
Nr.2. Is both funny and not, I feel a bit sorry for the little boy but you have to decide it yourself...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw4eLAlWyHo
Nr.3. This is about a model who falls twice on the runway and the news ancors can´t stop laughing at her while telling the news...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXZ0fWkAghA
Nr.4. This one is just so embarrassing... South Carolina´s Miss Teen 2007 has to answer on the question why a lot of the US Americans can´t put the US on the map. Her answer? Well, just listen...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
That´s it for now, before I get stuck on youtube I´d better do something more beneficial of my day! Ciao!
Training camp nr.1 - Sonthofen
Last thursday we left Dachau for Sonthofen, to get to know our home gym and "home town". It was a nice and bounding trip, we slept in some luxurious place called "the gym". Yes, and not only did WE but so did two other teams as well... Dachau men´s team and another women´s team! This could be interesting... and it was! The first night there was a misunderstanding: the guys thought that training camp means "party all night" and "don´t let the girls sleep" which made us soooo angry that we told everyone the next day, coaches and stuff. Yes, we tried everything else at first but nothing else worked but "telling our daddies"... So, should I tell you or is it clear that the second night was the best: not a voice, not a noise and we slept like babys!!!
I liked the practices and every day there were other activities beside the practices, such as a reaaaally important Team Presentation and Beach Party saturday night in Wonnemar´s nice bath in Sonthofen. This was a nice party with food and drinks, bathing and sauna, in- and outdoors. Which was followed by a really long and hard practice sunday morning, with many sleepy faces... : )
One of the days (friday I think) we visited a small house in the mountains where we ate some Bavarian specialty (home made noodles with cheese), it was a bit too much for me but it was not so bad. We also had a very very very very nice ice-cream earlier that day in the city, I mean I had an ice coffee in the city´s best ice cream place Eis Venezia who´s owner likes the team and invited us for whatever we wanted! Mmmm, as we always said last year in Innsbruck: it was soul orgasm!!! : )
On sunday, after the terrible and long half-sleeping practice we visited the bath again and enjoyed naked sauna (not!) and nice hot bubbly water before we left back to Dachau...
Now I am so tired that if I don´t stop writing I might delete everything while my sleeping head falls on the computer! So, ciao!
Beginning of a new life in Dachau/Sonthofen
Until now everything is really nice (except for the weather!!!), the teammates are all differently nice and funny, the coach seems to understand volleyball and yeah everything is just very fine! About the weather, I don´t think we hade more than 3 days without rain until now...
The first week there was something called Volksfest which is a smaller kind of Oktoberfest. In one week, I managed to visit the festival 5 times!!! Don´t ask how it´s possible... I´ll answer it anyways!!! Actually one of the times it just happened to be like that when KK and I tried to find our ways home (obviously with no success) and we just happened to find Volksfest instead... after that we continued our way "home", but it turned out to be the opposite direction of home. So shamefully we had to call our last solution, namely our coach Andi who was nice enough to drive us home. Well... another time I visited the festival was spontanious as well: my aunt who lives like 30 minutes from me called and asked if she can visit me in an hour with my two cousins. My friend Martina was already here, cousins came and we went to check out Volksfest again! The other 3 times I went to the Volksfest was with the team, and I guess saturday night was the most fun of all nights! Logically, the worst day was then sunday morning but I will not talk more about that... : )
If someone wants to read our homepage (it´s in German...) here´s the address: http://www.sonthofen-volleyball.de/
Otherwise, to summerize to whole thing:
1. I feel good in my new team
2. I am very excited to play here and
3. There have been a lot of Volksfest lately but it´s over now
See ya!
Finally some internet...
The weather here didn´t really welcome us well; it´s raining all the time!!! Oh sorry, I forgot: probably the only time it didn´t rain was when we, after having found an internet cafe, tried to find our way home... we walked for like 2 hours (with a stop eating a turkish pizza included), until we realized that we have no idea where we are! Then we played our last cards, and called our coach who brought us home! Oh god, it´s such a small city and we still don´t know how to find places... it takes a little time, we have a map and soon we will know the name of every little street!!! Oh, I shouldn´t always be so extreme... it´s enough with the name oh half of the streets!
Whatever, it´s starting to get really dark in the volleyball gym where we´re sitting using our wireless connection that finally works! But that fact will not prevent us from sitting here until we get so hungry that our stomaches will take us home although the rest of our bodies and minds still want to sit and chat, read news or whatever one does on the internet...
That´s it for now, I hardly see the letters that I write so it´s time to go on!
Through the Monsoon...
Well, when we booked our flight to Thailand we didn´t realize that there´s a reason why it´s not tourist season in July; because the monsoon is visiting the country almost every day! And when it comes, you don´t have any chance to survive it without being wet everywhere... not even umbrellas or rain clothes help!
Despite of that we took our umbrellas and rain jackets with us everywhere, just in case...
Here are some photos from Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Krabi - everywhere where the monsoon reached us... : )
1. Monsoon in Siam, Bangkok (left) and Chiang Mai (right)
2. Thai people are prepared for the arrival of the monsoon; they even use the water for nurturing the flowers!
3. Here are two of our desperate tries to defend us from the power of the monsoon; that´s something that you would only do while on vacation (I mean, looking like that... ; )
Running through the monsoon,
Beyond the world,
To the end of time,
Where the rain won´t hurt...
(Tokio Hotel: Through the Monsoon)
It´s possible! If you have a lot of children, you still have to travel somehow...
(Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 2008)
Buddha statues in Ayutthaya, Thailand (July 2008)
Waterfall outside of Chiang Mai, Thailand (July of 2008)
On an Island close to Krabi, Thailand (July, 2008)
A new function on my blog - a countdown function
It´s not the best occasion I would be longing for in my life, so as soon as something more exciting happens I will make a countdown for that instead! (Or parallelly with it... ; )
A bird in Bang Pa in Palace, Ayutthaya, Thailand
Snorkeling in Krabi, Thailand
The Monkey Island in Koh Phi Phi, Thailand
Sunset in Ao Nang, Krabi, Thailand (July 2008)
Young coconut juice to be drunk in Ao Nang, Krabi, Thailand (in July 2008)
The English version is here (to stay?!)
But the positive thing is that writing this blog will give me a motivation to practise and make my English skills better!
Ok... this short post took me forever to write, the words don't really come to me as they do when writing for example in Swedish or Hungarian. Ok, so there's this positive side of this blog: my posts'll not be so long, therefore easier to read : )
Enjoy and don't laugh too hard about my mistakes; you will get stomach ache!
Judy
P.s.: please don't hesitate to comment on my English mistakes, in a helping way of criticizing! Thanks.
