Dropping Like Flies!

It seems like everyone on the squad is getting injured these days. Pretty soon we will have to forfeit matches. We have two outside hitters out for an extended period of time with bad knees and a broken foot. Nelly has some foot issues and has been limited at practice recently and sat out the match this Saturday. Flemming our stud middle has a shoulder injury not too sure how severe it is but he also was held out this Saturday. I am slowly creeping off of the injury report. My leg has been improving a lot thank goodness. It still aches and is not 100 percent so I am occasionally limited at practice but it is way better than it has been. So hopefully the worst is behind me with this stupid leg. I had a small scare while taking down the "city" last week. One of the heavy walls that we set up kind of fell and knocked my knee and bruised it pretty bad. I was unable to practice the next day but luckily it was fine the following day. Phew. So hopefully we get some of these bodies back in order because it is really hurting our practices and slowing our development as a team for sure.

I was really busy last week doing some work for the club so I missed last weeks post. Last Sunday we took down the city. Took 6 guys about 6 hours to do it all. Thought it would be much longer but it went pretty fast. It is frustrating setting up all this stuff in the gym because the system is pretty silly. The walls are super heavy. The majority of the walls are two meters long and about 7 feet tall. They have steel framing and solid plywood in the interior. One of these suckers probably weighs 100 pounds at least. The walls are at least 25 years old so there has to be a modern system that just makes much more sense and is easier to set up. Plastic maybe? Just thinking about having to set up the gym again in December for the next one makes my head hurt.

More work was done Monday-Thursday. We delivered phone books for 4 hours each of the days. We have some designated routes on a map that we had to knock out. This work is fine not to difficult. We got some food on all of the days so that was nice.

This Saturday we had a home match against KSV a team from Copenhagen. They weren't such a strong team so we expected a quick 3-0 win. Like I said before we had some injuries so our bench was pretty much depleted so luckily we had this easy match to rest some of the guys. We did win 3-0 but by no means would I say we played well. Our passing and serving was a bit rocky and we didn't have that much intensity on the court. It was a pretty boring game really. KSV never really pushed us. I was satisfied with my play for the most part. I have got my serve going. Got some aces and killed all but two of my sets I think. My leg held up well I didn't even really think about it at all during the match. Legs felt pretty fresh so all in all I was happy.

After the match I went over to Christa's aunt and uncles for her cousins birthday party. Met some more of the family and had some nice food. It was a nice party. Toward the end of the party the Denmark vs Sweden World Cup qualification game started. Denmark just needed two more points to qualify. So basically a win solidified thier bid to the World Cup. The game was dead locked 0-0 through 78 minutes when finally Denmark scored. That was all the scoring for the match and Denmark won and got its bid. It was pretty exciting much more so than the live game I went to. So it was watchable for me. After the soccer match I headed back to the gym. All of the guys were still there following the volleyball match having some food, some beverages, and watching DK vs SWE match. I got there around 10 I want to say. The øl (beer) was flowing pretty consistantly since I had left for the party so everyone was having a great time by then. We ended up just staying there all night and played some games had some laughs and then called it a night.

Today I just have been relaxing for the most part. Read a little bit on the Kindle. FYI the Kindle has an international edition that was just released! Missed out on that which stinks. I also did some Rosetta Stone with Christa helping me with some of the pronunciation. I feel like I learned a lot in the two hours that I was practicing. Got through 10 lessons and my pronunciation is coming around. It's still super hard to say brød (bread) and rød (red). I'll get it just need some practice making those sounds! After I knocked out some RS football was on and I caught a few of the games on the internet. Bears have a bye week so that is a bummer. My fantasy team took a beating so I lost interest in this weeks games pretty quick. Might watch some of the afternoon games or might watch Inglorious Basterds. Just got that so I think I'll have to do that.

This week we don't have any work so it should be a more peaceful week. Might get a few workouts in over at CCS and get ready for the match this week. All for now. Hej hej miss everyone!