I am spoiled

So I haven't updated in a while. The last three weekends have been spent in ultimate tourneys and a "convention/practise." First Madrid, mostly Spanish teams. Then a weekend in Santander to meet with my team and practise together once before our tournament. We are all United Statesians living in Spain (various parts) put together by an ulitmate player who has been living in Madrid for the past couple of years and met us all at various tournaments throughout the last year or so. Then this past weekend was the tournament: Bibione, Italy. I took off early (no problems with work, tehe.) and flew to Girona for a connecting flight to Venice. It was going to be a long layover before Ryan air pushed my flight back 2.5 hours, so I took a bus into the city and explored all day. Beautiful place, I kind of want to live there... Its not far from Barcelona but I'd never been. Cool old fortified city wall which you can walk along on top. And awesome cathedral.

Took the night flight to Venice and arrived to an absolute downpour. More water coming out of the sky than I'd seen for a while. Waited in the bus stop for about 20 minutes before venturing out to find my hotel. Met up with a friend and her sister. Next day we explored Venice, ate lovely Italian food, and walked around all day. Later some of the boys from my team showed up and we walked around more and ate gelato mmm. Then off to Bibione where the tournament took place. Our team stayed in two trailers together and embraced lots of typical "American" traditions/manners of speaking. It would have been painful had it not been so fun. It was a great team and I hope to play with them/see them all again later.

Next 3 days were spent on a lovely Italian beach wearing tiny red shorts with white "wife beater" shirts, winning all our games, and goofing around a lot. We ended winning the whole tournament which was a first for me. And so fun. I love beach ultimate so much more than grass. And its so much fun to play with/meet so many people from all of the world! There were 33 teams in total--we played teams from Germany, Austria, Italy, Croatia, etc. I am terrible at picture-taking at tournaments but I hope to rob some of my teammates' soon.

Now I have less than one-month here, unless I change my return flight...which probably depends on whether or not I'm coming back next year or not. (Hurry up! Tell me if I have the job or not!) :) I've loved my time here, and can't really picture it ending. I think I'll stop writing about it for now... Hope to see you all this summer when I'm back. besos.

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