First day of Soccer!! I have got a uniform, am on a team, and playing soccer in Spain! I don't think it can get any better than that! Starting the day off.... We had breakfast at 8AM. I had a pastry thing.... It was really good! I grabbed my soccer stuff and headed to the pitch for practice. It was about a five to ten minute walk until we arrived.

The boys... waiting to eat breakfast!

This is the pitch we would practice on in the mornings.

After the morning practice, we would go and lear n spainsh. Our teacher name was Victor. He was very helpful and patient with me. We would learn words and sentences that helped us get around Spain. For example: how to order things, how to ask questions etc.....

We also learned the words for soccer games. The referees would say everything in Espanol, so in order to understand what was happing we had to l earn all the soccer terms.

We headed back to the hotel for lunch! The food is SO good. There was always a lot of bread and pastries. The italian pizza was really good. Oh.... It was like a patato cake, that was my favorite. Basically we could ask them to make us something and the chefs did. It was amazing!! European food is the BEST! We played soccer in the hall way at the hotel, jumped on matress in the halls, and watch futbol matchs on TV during our hour an a half free time. Also, Shane and I went to explore around our hotel and we found a candy shop. That was the greatest!

In the evening, we all went to the swimming pool. It was a lot of fun. I did cannon balls and played around. Also, I beat Tato in a race swimming across the pool. He had to buy me a drink. Good times! Everyone just hung out, listened to their I-pods, and played soccer at the swimming pool.

Then we went to soccer practice in the evening. We did drills and improved are skills. We had to go through an obsticle coures that was set up. First we dribbled around big cones three times, next we would sprint up the pitch with the ball, after we would roll the ball with the bottom of our feet about fifteen times, pop the ball in the air, dive through a hula hoop and go through a set of falgs. We did this drill about twenty times. Also, we did a shooting drill. We would pop the soccer ball in the air and let it hit the ground ounce than shoot. We would also pop the ball in the air and strike the ballin the air without letting it hit the ground. It was tough. We would switch off between boths of the drills.

Finally it was time to eat dinner! The Food was really really good. We had spaggetti for dinner and some rolls. We had a choose between to spainsh desserts. Flan and gelatto. Ya of course I picked gelatto! You would have to be crazy not to! The time in Spain to eat is diffrent than what I was used to also. In the morning we would eat breakfast at 8, but then lunch was not until 2 and dinner was not until around 830 or 9. It was touture!! Next, off to bed. Brushed my teeth, took a shower, e-mailed home and hit the sack.

This is the pool that I won the race in! WOOT WOOT!