Hello Friends and Family!
It’s now early November, and winter is most definitely coming to Dresden! Today is clear and chilly, about 9⁰C outside, and getting colder every day. Rumors are spreading about snow being spotted in the hills or in villages around the city, and I’m trying my best to look forward my favorite parts of winter (gluehwein in the city, Christmas Markets, pretty snow on trees, pretending I’m Queen Frostine) as opposed to focusing on my least favorite parts of the season (cold hands, cold feet, cracky skin, lack of motivation to get out of bed, did I mention cold hands?). Positive thoughts, positive thoughts!
This main pic is of a system of drains that runs down the back of a building in Neustadt, and I think it's pretty amazing!
Since my last update, life has been full of volley, traveling for volley, and trying to do fun things when we have a break from volley!
Possibly the most exciting event was the unexpected weekend off from Alex, which gave me the opportunity to make a quick trip to Klagenfurt for a chance to visit my much loved home-away-from-home. I made it there by 1pm on Saturday and left again at 5pm on Sunday, so it was a fast turnaround to say the least, but somehow everything worked out so that I was able to watch my old team play at home on Saturday night AND have lunch at Marco’s family’s house on Sunday before he had a home game that evening. The 28 hours flew by, but I made the most of it, and it was an awesome way to spend my weekend off!
The weekend after my trip to Klags, Nikki and I celebrated the end of October with my first gluewein of the season (again, winter is HERE), and we had a free weekend where we had a fun girls-night at a local club. We were in Czech Republic from Wednesday to Thursday for two scrimmages against the team from Prostejov, and on Friday we watched our local basketball team play. Over the weekend we played at home in the first rounds of the LigaCup, which is a preseason tournament with all of the teams from the German league. We won from the 4 teams playing in Dresden, which means that this weekend we’ll play in the final round in Suhl against the other finalist teams. Fingers crossed! (or in Europe, thumbs clenched into a fist, which means the same thing as fingers crossed :)
Hope you all enjoy the new pics, and I loved getting emails from those of you that sent me messages after the last update! (hint hint.. email me!)
XOXO
Anna
Ps. Almost forgot! It’s my birthday on Sunday! Hope you all are going to be celebrating with me (in spirit?)
