Coming Back To School

Today is the day that everyone gets to come back to school because, sadly, break is over. I am definitely not excited to go back to classes and get homework and think about finals but it's nice to have everyone back in the dorms again. I was starting to get bored in the dorms all by myself. Now that everyone is back I can go to other peoples rooms and hang out with them when I'm bored and I have people I can work on homework with. The one nice part of not going home for break was that when everyone comes back, most people come around the same time so they have to deal with the mess of traffic outside of Clinton. They also have to deal with where to park to unload your stuff because you don't want to unload your stuff in D lot and have to walk it all to Clinton. So today I got to watch everyone argue and get mad that someone blocked there car in when they were trying to unload their bags. I also got to help people bring their bags in so they didn't have to make so many trips but I'm not really sure if I liked doing that!

Wartburg vs Wisconsin Eau Claire

On Saturday we had our first home game against Wisconsin Eau Claire. Everyone was pumped up and excited to start playing because it was our home opener and we have been waiting for our home game for a long time. The game started off really good, we were up by 10 and we were doing everything we wanted to do. Our zone defense was working really good against them and we were running our plays and getting the shots we wanted. Then we started to struggle rebounding and they started getting easy points. When half time came, we were down by 2 and the coaches were not very happy with us. When we started the second half we came out really strong and went on a little run. But then they started getting easy shots and we were down by 5. Towards the end of the game it was really close and we would be down by 2 then tied, then we would be up by 1 then tied. It was a back and forth game. There was 2 minutes left on the clock and Bobbie Burrows hit a three to put us up by 2. Then they got a lay up to tie the game. Then one of our player got fouled and made one of her freethrows to put us up by 1. Then we got fouled again and made one freethrow to put us up by 2. Then we help them for the last 15 seconds and we won! It was a crazy and exciting game and definitely a good win for the knights.

Thanksgiving Day

On thanksgiving day I woke up and my parents and I looked through the ads to see if we needed anything during black Friday. After we looked through the ads, we all started to get ready to go to my aunt and uncles house. My brother Eric didn't end up coming with us because he wasn't feeling good when he woke up. So it was just my mom, my dad, my brother and me. We got to my aunt and uncles house around 11:45 and we all ate lunch there. I got to see my aunt and uncle and cousins who live in Ohio and don't get to come back very often. There was so much food to decide from for lunch and it all looked so good. We had turkey, stuffing, vegetable salad, fruit salad, corn, peas, green beans, mashed potatoes, rolls and more. There was so much of everything too because we have a really big family so my uncle always has to make so much food. All the food was delicious though and I got to take some home with me to eat for the next day. While we were at my aunt and uncles house we played different board games and watched football all day. It was nice to get to see some of my cousins that I haven't seen since I left for school. Even though in a way I was excited to come back to school, I wish I could have had a longer break.

Thanksgiving Break

After our last game in Missouri on Tuesday we got to ride home with our parents for thanksgiving. I rode home with my parents and didn't end up getting home until around 1 in the morning. We only got Wednesday and Thursday off for thanksgiving because we had practice on Friday and a game on Saturday. Since I had such a short break I had to fit so much stuff in, in such little time. Luckily I got to go see my grandparents on Wednesday and while I was at their house I got to see my aunt and cousins from Wisconsin and I also got to see some of my other aunts and uncles. Then my parents made me a home cooked meal on Wednesday night which was delicious compared to the food in the mensa here. After dinner my 4 best friends from high school came over and we hung out and baked cupcakes. My friends and I are really into baking and we use to do it all the time on the weekends when we were in high school. So as soon of all of us could get together we decided we wanted to bake something. We ended up making chocolate peppermint cupcakes and they turned out really good. They were really sweet but the peppermint added extra flavor. Then after 3 of my friends left, my best friend from when I was in kindergarten slept over. That was the first time I got to see her since I left for school and I missed her a lot.

Missouri

Over thanksgiving break, the Wartburg women's basketball team took a trip to Missouri to play a couple games. We left on Sunday after we had practice in the morning and drove all the way there and got there around 9 at night. When we got there, we got checked into our rooms and then went to bed shortly after because we had a game the next day. On Monday we played Fontbonne College from Missouri and won. We didn't play very good but luckily we played good enough to win. Then on Tuesday we played Westminister College from Missouri and we also won that game. But on Tuesday there was a series of events that happened. It started when we were driving to Westminister college, one of the vans that we were traveling in got a flat tire. So the girls that were in that van were a little bit late for warm ups. Then in the middle of our warm up we go down to the locker room to get a scouting report on the other team and while we were down there talking all the power went out in the whole city. So we went back up in the gym and had to wait in there until the power came back on. We ended up having to wait 45 minutes until we could start our game. We ended up playing a lot better that game and came out of Missouri with 2 wins!

Going Home This Weekend

This Friday Wartburg basketball has their first actually game at Upper Iowa University and we are all super excited. I am even more excited because my parents are coming to the game and after the game is over I get to go home with them. I am so ready to go home for a weekend and spend time with my parents, sleep in my bed, see my grandparents and the rest of my family, and see my old high school teammates. I had planned to go home this weekend and I was going to surprise them and just show up at home but then my dad called me the other day and asked if I wanted to come home this weekend so I had to tell them my plan. I am going to surprise my old high school teammates on Sunday and show up at their open gym though. I am excited to see all of them because we are all really close and I haven't seen any of them since I moved in. I can't wait to see what my parents have planned for us on Saturday. I think we will go to the Wartburg vs Loras football game on Saturday afternoon and then go out to eat at night. And I'm going to stop and see my grandparents before I leave at some point and talk to them. I am just excited to be at home and sleep in my own bed and have my own space and quiet time to do my homework for the weekend!

First Basketball Scrimmage

On Sunday we had our first basketball scrimmage against Gustavus in Minnesota. We won the first have of the scrimmage by 11 and lost the second half of the scrimmage by 1, so we ended up winning that whole scrimmage by 10. They played a full varsity scrimmage and then played half of a JV scrimmage. It was nice because the only times we have scrimmaged have been against each other in practice and you can only do that for so long. Sometimes it's hard to scrimmage in practice because when we try to run plays, since we all know that plays some people try and cheat the plays and we end up not being able to run all the way through them. So it was nice to run the plays against a different team that doesn't know our play and we were able to run them and execute them very well. I am very proud of the way we played on Sunday and I am anxious to see what the rest of this season brings. After the scrimmage our coach sent us footage that they video taped so we could watch it and look at the stuff we needed to correct. There was plenty of things we need to work on but I feel like we played good for out first scrimmage. It didn't help when there were plenty of people that were nervous to start but once they got in and things got going they started to relax and play the game.