Tuesday July 21, 2009

Day 10 – Pula, Croatia Global Challenge Day 2

By: Hallie Enderle

Northern Lights 16-1

            For starters, we had to wake up, because you can’t do much if you’re still asleep. Breakfast was at roughly seven-thirty a.m. I was so glad to see the breakfast lay out again this morning to be a familiar cereal, eggs, and bread. The only problem is that the milk tastes like eggs.

            This morning we played the Romanian’s, who beat us. Then we were off a match and waited to play the team Pula, they also beat us. After that we didn’t play until 5 that evening so we were free, after eating lunch at the hotel, to do as we pleased. Ashley, Lisa, Kelsey, and Macy ventured off to the pool to lay-out (their parents won’t recognize there nationality when they get home), Katie, Vossy, and Lexi had a nap, and Sam, myself, and Ellen made a 3 minute walk to the beach.

            The beach here in Pula is mainly little cliffs and lots of rocks. The water is the clearest blue I have ever seen in my entire life. Right away we found a sea urchin. Ever since Ellen saw the dead sea urchin that Lisa found she’s been dying to get one for herself. Sam and I had to keep her from grabbing it with her hands (for some reason we thought that wouldn’t be the best idea). When we finally got her away she insisted on leaving it in the sun so it would be dead by the time we got back. We swam and jumped off of rocks for about an hour and then decided to head in, Ellen’s urchin was no where to be found.

            That evening we played the Slovenian’s, the last of the European teams. Alas, yet again, we failed to achieve 25 before our opponents. I really think that on this trip we didn’t want to come all this way and show off our mad skills. We all have mentally agreed that it wouldn’t be nice to flaunt our superiority to our European adversaries (how did you like that big word?! :D). If we dominated them like we know we could it may start another World War. So by losing we are actually saving the planet.

            After a long day of playing we went over to our back packs to take off our stuff. But when we grabbed the back packs to take them away, they were caught in the net that was hanging down from the ceiling. Not just a few people, everyone! It was Curt, now he thinks he’s a pretty sly fellow. Oh Uncle Curtis.

            Then we went home and went to sleep. KIDDING!! Curt totally surprised us with tickets to a midnight showing of HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE! Not only that, but it was IN THE COLOSEUM!

            We didn’t leave until nine and when we got there, another independent film was playing. When we found seats, not the movie theater chairs, we watched it. It was good apart from the weird plot line, random deaths, crazy war vets, and the English subtitles. The cool part was that the cast from the movie we had just watched came on stage after. But that didn’t matter, the sixth Harry Potter movie was minutes away.

            It was amazing. We got home around three, and went straight to sleep because we had to wake up at seven the next morning to play.

Can’t wait to see you!!!

Love,

Northern Light’s 16-1’s (in the voice of Hallie)…I miss my little sister!!!