Archive for February, 2007

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Hello All,

Well, one match down and at least two more victories to go in this series. It is going to be a tough series as during playoff time no match, set, point, can be taken easily. We have to earn it, although the other teams errors 28 verses our 14 did give us a cushion. I am not expecting that in the matches to come. This team generally does not make a lot of errors.

So the water system here in Macae is so weird…. Maybe it is normal, I am not sure since not having water has never been an issue. In the States you pay your bill, you’ll have water. I am not sure the problem but apparently there was a problem in the my part of the city. Anyway, I live in a house and it has a small pool. I had to add water to it as it was low. It took SEVEN hours to fill! At any rate, there is a type of resevoir in my back yard. It was depleted in my effort to fill the pool. So when the problem arose, I was left without water! My husband call to have water delivered. He didn’t come until about 8:30 pm. I was still at practice which left my mom who doesn’t speak any portuguese to resolve the problem. Long story shortened, my resevoir was fill, as well and the pool and my kitchen floor. Apparently, the man dragged the open hose through the kitchen and flooded the floor. Poor mom, she was left to clean up the mess. Thanks mom.

Well, I am off to bed.

Go Cimed Macae

Danielle

Oh I should have some new photo to post in the gallery soon thanks to Junior a volleyball fan from Macae.

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Well, Regular season is done. We lost our final three matches BOOOO! And thus dropped to fifth place for the final ranking of regular season. The positive is that once the playoffs starts the slate is wiped clean. Gloves must come off, if they weren’t already. On an individual note, I finished first in the best scorer category by only three point more than Paula Pequeno. I also finished first in attack percentage. What I am most happy about is that I was the best defender for our team the last two matches. I love to play defense and I finally made it in the stats, well at least for those two matches…. Although I am disappointingly not in the blocking top blocking stats, our team is ranked second in defense, though I know I must block more balls for points to help in the post season matches.

Before the playoffs began we will have four days off. I am in Sao Paulo right now. Today my husband and I had lunch at one of his favorite self-service restaurants. The picanha was good and the maracuja mousse with chocolate chips in it was da bum! Tomorrow we will go work out, and take care of some errands. We’ll have lunch and my in-laws then head to Parati for Carnival.

That’s it for now

GO CIMED MACAE!

Danielle