I took a visit this week to Broad Beach which is a little further south from Surfers Paradise. It was beautiful. . .the beach was even nicer then surfers paradise and everything was a bit more spread out so it was more relaxed. Also, since its not as popular as surfers paradise you have more locals bumming around there then you do tourists so its not as chaotic and crazy.
Last night I went to the GPS (greater public schools) swimming championships. Bruce coaches The Southport School team and so he was able to get me into the event. Apparently this swim competition has the best high school swimmers in the nation competing in it. The competition was all boys and I wish I could describe the atmosphere in the aquatic center, it was pretty impressive. The meet was held in the Brisbane aquatic center which is amazing. It has an Olympic size pool with 10 lanes and then there is a warm up pool with 5 lanes and then they even have all the Olympic diving podiums. The great thing about this event is that there were actually Olympians there because they used to go to some of these schools. Also, before we left for the meet a former Olympic gold medalist, I am drawing a blank on his name right now and feel like a terrible person, gave an inspirational talk to the team and then I got to talk and meet him afterwards! Pretty neat. Anyways, it was exciting and unlike anything I've ever been too, and Bruce’s team came in 2nd.
So on to Game 2. . .it was a great success! We played 3 20 minute periods. We won 4-2 and we played a Brisbane team which was much more skilled then the team we played last week. We started off with a 1-0 lead, I actually scored off of a corner, I was at the far post and tipped it in. And then they scored and tied it up and then we scored to make it 2-1 and then they tied it up again. So the score was 2-2 after the 2nd 20 minutes. And then in the 3rd period we scored 2 other goals. One was off of a corner and the other was off of a 2v1 breakaway. For this game I played as a striker and a center mid. The game was fun and fast paced! The girls and coaches are very nice and I have been learning a lot of new things from them. I am so far having such a blast playing with them all. We played a lot better as a team this week, although there are still plenty of things we need to work on.
We have another game tomorrow at 5pm, I will be sure to let you know how it goes. That is all for now.
