So I've been here for two weeks, and I'm starting to settle in a bit. Soccer is going pretty well. I made the first team last weekend for the two games. We tied the first 1-1 and lost the second 1-0. I got in the first game for officially 3 minutes, check the match stats out: http://www.uslsoccer.com/stats/2008/657345.html
Yep, right there, Anderas, Charles (Chuck) #6, 3 minutes. Oh yeah, and I got put in at defensive center mid... I basically just ran around a lot and tried to not loose my mark and give up a goal. I tried to do no harm, basically. I sat the bench the next game, and tomorrow I have a reserve team game. Hopefully I'll do well and continue to improve. One strange thing about it is that afterwards we go over by the fans and little kids all want our autographs...
Life has been a bit difficult beyond soccer. It's been a bit lonely, as I am basically by myself at the house all day until about 4 in the afternoon when my host family comes home. I do a bit of yard work and read and try to keep busy during the day. At night I go to training. I guess I was expecting more of a community with the team, but it's more or less show up at training, play, and go home. Hopefully that will change after our trip to Austria. We'll see.
My mom, dad, brother, and sister are coming out to visit me this weekend, and I'm really excited to see them. We're going to go to the ocean, maybe the mountains, and we're going to see our good friends the Kallbergs, who live in Washington a few hours away. Hopefully I'll get to play a bit in our two home games Friday and Saturday, because I think it's been since high school that any of them have seen me play. I'm really looking forward to being around my family again, and to seeing more of Oregon, so this weekend should be sweet.
Ok, thanks for reading. Keep me posted on your lives all of you, ok? Oh, and sorry I don't have this formatted any better, I've seen some other kids blogs and they put mine to shame...
Chuck
1 comments:
Good work Chuck! I love how they put the added "Chuck" in parentheses. As far as boredom goes though, do they have wii fit? You should try that out.
We had our first two games back at lightning and undefeated this far (I only played in the latter of the two since being at Northwestern with Meej during the first). Surprisingly I didn't get a card all game and was harassing the short, younger, high school lad the entire time for a call. Oh well.
Keep it up though. I'm glad that you're sticking with what you love and you took this opportunity to show that. Keep it on the pitch!
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