During our snowstorm I took an adventure out to play in the snow with my teammate Julia

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Hello Everyone! So sorry for not keeping up with this. You can all yell at me when i get home MAY 3RD!!!!! But just a little update about the season. We are in the final 2 weeks of the season!!! woohoo. We finished the regular season a few weeks ago and then started the playoffs. How it works is the top 4 teams make it to the playoffs. 1 plays 4 and 2 plays 3 in a 3 out of 5 match series. And we had 2 days off in between each match. It was very crazy and exhausting. So we ended the regular season 2nd so we had to play the #3 team, which was Brondby. Brondby has 3 Americans on their team. One girl played at University of Arizona and then I can't remember where the other 2 played. So we got to host the first match. We started off kind of slow and lost the first 2 games. Then somehow made an amazing comeback and won in 3! It was very exciting and very exhausting! Then 2 days later we went and played at Brondby's home gym. The first 2 games we started out very good and were up in both of them 20-15. But somehow Brondby came back and won both of them. We took care of them in the 3rd game and then in the 4th game we were down 22-24 and came back at won it! It was amazing! I'm still in shock that we were able to do it. And then we finished it out and won the match in 5! It was one of the most mentally and physically exhausting matches that we had been a part of. But so rewarding at the same time. Then 3 days later we played Brondby again at home. If we win we are done with the semis and move onto the finals....if we lose we would have to play again 3 days later. Once again we started off the match very strong taking the 1st and 2nd games pretty easily. The 3rd game was very tight and Brondby had chances to win it but once again Fortuna came out on top! It was very exciting. We had so many fans cheering us on and one of the boys professional teams here came and cheered us on as well! They were very loud which helped keep us going. We have a lot of respect for Brondby and it is always fun playing them. So now we are in the finals!!!! We will start our first match this friday the 9th at Holte. Holte is the team we beat in the Cup Final in January. So they will be coming out very strong. I'm pretty sure they will be playing the game online at Holte's website. When I know the website I will let you all know!

Now just a little catch up on me. I'm doing really well. I finally feel adjusted to European lifestyle...only took me almost 8 months!....hahaha. But as the season is coming to an end it becomes more real how much I am going to miss my teammates and how much fun I have had this season. I could have not asked for a better team to play on.

My mom gets here April 21st!!!! I cannot wait for her to get to meet everyone and see where I've been living for the past year. If anyone else is interested in coming hop on the plane with my mom! The more the merrier : )

And personally even though there have been tough times where I have felt very far away from God while being here, I have also been able to strengthen my relationship with the Lord which was something I was definitely in need of doing. And to all of you prayer warriors who had me daily in their prayers I thank you all so much for keeping me close to your hearts. Your prayers were felt here and I couldn't have made it this far without you! I am so blessed to have to many wonderful people in my life!

Once again I'm sorry I haven't been more on top of this thing, but I will be letting you know how the finals go and when my mama gets here!

Love you all.....vi ses from denmark for now