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Month: January 2013

  • Back to School

    The first week of school went pretty good. It was not really easy to get back the routine of waking up at 5:40, but meeting friends again was great. We had two swimming meets this week at home. The first was a home meet with West Ottawa and we literally destroyed them. The final score was 69 for WO and 219 for us. This Saturday we had our invitational swimming. There were four other teams from west Michigan. It went great for us. We made first place and had a lead if almost 200 points to second place. A little update on my times. My fastest hundred is now a 0:58.15, in the 200 free is with 2:10 about 3 seconds faster than before break, and my 50 free time dropped to 0:25.58. After the long days with four hours of practice during break, the after school practices seem much shorter.

    Unfortunately here we don’t get snow again after new year. A bit more about recent sport events and games. After the end of College Football season, which ended with an awful defeat of Notre Dame in the Championship game from Alabama, now there is almost every day one or more Basketball games on tv. In high school is now basketball season, too. The Games are very exciting and Rockford is pretty good. We just defeated Forest Hills with about 20 points in lead. The only thing, that is recent and interesting too, is the weather. This is already the second season with a winter, which doesn´t really feel like a winter. We just had 50 degrees again and it rained. Almost like home.

  • Birthday

    My birthday was awesome. We went to Craig’s Cruisers, which is a big hall with a lot of games, indoor carts and laser tag. It was so much fun and the all you can eat pasta and pizza buffet was great. It was an unforgettable day. The new year started great. We had a nice fondue party with friends and watched the ball dropping on Time Square. The second week of swim practices went really good. I tried the test set for the A- Team and made it finally. The last couple 100s were not really fun and I was dizzy for the next few hours, but it definitely worthed it. Our last three hour practice before next Monday the school starts again was really fun. We did something called “Iron Man”. It’ s not a several hour long triathlon, but a summary of most of the events in a usual meet including diving. People with about the same speed are racing each other and the first four places out of eight get points. The one, who has the most points after all events, wins a trophy. Really fun! In politics everything got relatively calm after the big issue of the fiscal cliff, which was avoided by congress with a long bill. Unfortunately not much snow fell in the last few weeks. Usually Grand Rapids gets about 31 inches till start of January, but we got only 8 till now. The weather gets weirder every year. Pictures are still in progress, but almost ready to upload.

  • New Year

    My birthday was awesome. We went to Craig’s Cruisers, which is a big hall with a lot of games, indoor carts and laser tag. It was so much fun and the all you can eat pasta and pizza buffet was great. It was an unforgettable day. The new year started great. We had a nice fondue party with friends and watched the ball dropping on Time Square. The second week of swim practices went really good. I tried the test set for the A- Team and made it finally. The last couple 100s were not really fun and I was dizzy for the next few hours, but it definitely worthed it. Our last three hour practice before next Monday the school starts again was really fun. We did something called “Iron Man”. It’ s not a several hour long triathlon, but a summary of most of the events in a usual meet including diving. People with about the same speed are racing each other and the first four places out of eight get points. The one, who has the most points after all events, wins a trophy. Really fun! In politics everything got relatively calm after the big issue of the fiscal cliff, which was avoided by congress with a long bill. Unfortunately not much snow fell in the last few weeks. Usually Grand Rapids gets about 31 inches till start of January, but we got only 8 till now. The weather gets weirder every year. Pictures are still in progress, but almost ready to upload.