July 21
The day started with wake up at 7 because we played at 9. We got breakfast at 715 (there are no colons on this computer...). We ate the usual hotel breakfast of bread,eggs,and yogurt. Most of us are getting tired of the same meals every morning. At 8 we met in the lobby to walk to the gym for our first match of the day against Pula, who we had played on the second day. To gaurantee playing in the finals of the Istra Division, we had to beat Pula in 3 games. We started our 9 oclock match and lost the first game, though we had started off with a big lead. We fought for the next two games and won those. After our game was over, we waited to find out if we would play in the finals at two or for bronze at twelve. It came down to scores, but we pretty easily made it to the finals. We went back to the hotel to relax for a little and eat lunch, where Kayla, Amber, and the Maddies surprised us with some super cool hair styles. We decided that we would all do our hair and match each other for the last game we would play as a team. We put our hair into separate parts with little rubber bands, then braided the pieces and put them together into high pony tails. We looked like studs. We left the hotel to the gym, getting some interested looks due to our nifty hair styles. When we got to the gym, we saw some of the German kids we met at the hotel there to watch us play. We were playing the Pula team again, for the third time in the tournament and the second time of the day. Unfortunately, we werent able to come up with a win against the team we had beaten twice already, and we lost in the first three games out of five. Although we lost, it was amazing to see how much we improved as a team. Looking back on our first day and seeing how far we have come was crazy, and it is sad to know we wont play together again. We walked back to the hotel and had to shower and change in an hour to go back and watch the finals. We knew the game between the USA A2 team and the Czech team that we had scrimmaged in Bled. The Czech team won the first game, but the USA team won the next three with a lot of energy and incredible playing. Some of us had girl crushes on the setter, libero, and middle because they were SO talented. After the game, we had closing ceremonies and recieved tournament tshirts and Allie got the all tournament award for our team. Maddie built up the courage to ask the libero from the USA team for a picture. We left the gym for a pizza dinner, tired of the hotel food. We finished eating and were off to the hotel for some mingling and packing to leave. WE LEAVE FOR VENICE TOMORROW and we are all really excited.
Love, Emily and Allie
PS the whole part where they looked like "studs" due to the braids, well....you be the judge ;) coulda just been that they looked like studs?! (Val)
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