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So I haven't been keeping up to date with this...I seem to have so much time for facebook but not recording my travels! Very disappointed in myself....Anyway
I was at Des Moines this weekend for another invitational tournament, that is the capital of Iowa, which I'm sure no one knew haha On the way in, i saw the above picture...some government building, but sadly that was about all. We had lots of free time but coach didn't want to take us anywhere :( The place we stayed at was nice though, I'll put pictures up later, but there were not many at all.
So let me get to the tennis, because I haven't kept up with it very well. Although a few of you I have talked to will know how i feel about this subject so I wont expand much because this is viewable by all. I won my first doubles but lost my second. I played with Laia, who's from Brazil. It was awesome, I really enjoyed playing with her. Our first doubles was okay, second was a lot better even though we lost. It was good fun.
In my singles I lost my first match against a girl from Drake University, our mortal enemies, for reasons I still really don't know. It was very mentally challenging. In America the opponent is the opponent, once you're on court people was say and do anything to win. You can be coached on every single point if you want, people are always yelling, there's more applause when the opponent makes an error then when a teammate wins a point..It's all just a big mental game, so as you can imagine FUN TIMES. First set she won. I was up though, 5-4 and on set points I got badly screwed over. Of course the ball was way before the line, I new, coaches new, everyone new, but you can't do anything and its normal. Coach was angry and said something and my opponent had a go at him...so it's all very WIN WIN WIN, which is no what I'm about so I'm obviously going to have to adapt to this s*** environment. I won the second well and lost the super. It was a good lesson for me, and I was happy with myself, even though another wasn't. Anyway I went on to win the conso, and apparantly I had a trophy but someone didn't tell me because it was Conso, so I have to investigate that!
So we have another tournament coming up in 2 weeks, precisely when home-coming is!!! SO I AM VERY ANGRY AND UPSET to miss such a stereotypical part of American college. I'll report on that when it happens.
This week I have a lot of test, but I'm not worried. I don't know what I want to do so I'm just exploring. I miss home a lot and this week has been very tough on me. So thank you to a few of you who helped me through it. It can only get better.
I'll write something else later, hopefully :)
I love you all and wish i Was home, but I'm going to get through this.
xoxoxoxox
P.S MUM AND DAD the bags...amazing! HAHA :)
P.P.S Ebs I can't wait to speak to you
P.P.P.S I miss you so much Alex and Lic...and everyone else. But seeing the photos of the fun times...oh i wish i was part of it. HAPPY 18TH BDAY AGEN LIC :P
P.P.P.P.S Go the Hawks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ps i love you
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