Small World

Sooooo Wednesday we watched the U.S. soccer team play...that was a looong game. We were sitting down to eat dinner when they went into the additional time and finally scored a goal. When they did Margreet got so excited she hit me in the arm and it scared me! hahaha. Lotte and I are both cheering for U.S. and Holland. After dinner I went over to the fields and gave lessons to 3 different girls and then the 2nd girls team had practice. It was my turn to run the practice and I didnt plan anything so I just made it up as I went. Didn't seem to be a problem though. It went pretty well, I just need to work on my hitting to the outfield..I almost killed an infielder like 4 times. haha. After that I was supposed to get a ride home from Frans but he had a meeting at the club that hadn't even started yet so I decided that it would be a good time for me to run home from the fields. I wanted to run earlier in the day but it has been so warm this week there was no way I was doing it during the day. Even at 9:15pm it was warm. I could've called Margreet for a ride home but I needed to do some physical activity.

Yesterday it was so warm that I put on my bathing suit and went and sat out in the garden and read the book I got from the library on wednesday. We had practice earlier last night so that we could finish and all go into the cantine at the fields and watch Holland's game. There were only 6 of us there but it was fun. I am now a shortstop..hahaha. My arm starts aching all the time when I throw overhand though..idk whats wrong with it. I feel like its tendinitis since thats what I have on basically every part of my right side already. It gets so bad that I cant lift my arm or put it into a fist. I finally stopped myself and put some ice on my elbow but it was already too late, I pushed it a little too hard. We did some hitting and then we were done and went up to watch the game with everyone. It was packed with people who come just to watch it.  Everyone was in Orange but me, I was in all pink! hahaha. I had some beers with Frans and everytime Holland scores they send around a shot of some orange stuff that tastes like orange soda but with some liquor. No idea what it is but it tastes pretty good. I stood in the back by the door to get some air because it was so stuffy inside and a girl from our team named Jennifer was smoking cigs standing there so we started up a convo for about 45 minutes. Welll....we finally got around to talking about her mom and how her mom is American and they live here and her mom goes back every year to visit family and what not. I asked her where her mom was from and she said "I dont know if you will know it. Most people dont. Roseville, California" ...I didnt even let her get through saying California before I freaked out and was like THATS WHERE IM FROM!!!!!!!!! Im still in shock that all the way in Holland I met someone who is from the area I grew up. It completely blew my mind. haha. I told her I was from Colfax and she said she'd ask her mom about it but she knew where Auburn was..I said that was close enough. Seriously so funny though..as soon as she said Roseville I attacked her. hahaha. So im going to have to go meet her mom, which will be nice because her mom speaks english and I guess shes not so good at dutch haha. They live near us in Delft where I visited my first week here.

Anyway, she left at half time and then I took pics of everyone around who was outside. I'll post some of the pics. After the game was over (Holland won 2-1) Frans, Lotte and I went home.  We were all sitting in the living room when Frans got texts from Henk and Wouter asking if they could come over and have a beer with me. So they came over with Reineer and Frans and Lotte went to bed. Me, Wouter, Henk, Reineer, Niels, and Elmo stayed up until a little after 2am talking and drinking a bit..well mostly they drank and I sat here trying not to fall asleep because that was way past my bedtime.

I have already started recruiting people to celebrate 4th of July with me and Amanda when she gets here on the 4th. I told them all they have to wear red white and blue and they say thats no problem bec thats the colors of their flag. We also planned a trip to Amsterdam on the 6th because we assume we will be too hungover on the 5th to be traveling. I am very excited for Amanda to get here!!! Today I am just doing some laundry and hanging out. I might go on an adventure on my bike..we'll see. Tonight we will go watch Niels and Elmos softball game at the club and then tonight we are going out and this time Elmo and Niels are coming for once so it should be pretty fun. Hopefully I dont fall asleep before since this time we arent going to Rotterdam until 12:30...ugh.