Wednesday, March 2, 2011

MARZO!!!!

WOW! It's already March (Marzo), I can't believe it!

Since there isn't a lot to do in this town but eat and workout, thats exactly what we have done. Lynnea and I have established 3 places that we frequent, to the point where the people that work there now know our names and what we like to order. These places are: Maruzzella, a nice restaurant (really the only "real" restaurant I have seen in Fondi). The woman who usually takes our order is very quite, but knows that we like a lot of oregano on our Caprese! She is also pregnant, 6 months, and its a boy! Hahah yes, we know them like that!
The next place is My Way Pizzeria, the guy who owns it is named Antoine and he is apparently an old volleyball player. He really likes us, we are even able to call him on the phone and tell him we will be in after practice usually around 11pm, and he will stay open for us! He frequently gives us free samples of food, like on Monday, he pretty much gave us a free meal. We both had steak and salad after we saw him serve it to another customer, and he didn't charge us for them! We told him "thank you a million"(Grazie mille) and he said "no no, grazie mille a voi" (thanks a million to YOU), he is always so nice and has a huge smile on is face!
The last place that we often go to is a little cafe and gelateria (gelato cafe), and there are usually two younger people who work there, Fabio and Eleonora. Lately, since its been kind of cold outside, we sit inside and eat our gelato (they have amazing flavors! my new favorites are pistachio and fior di latte!) One night we were sitting in there when our favorite TV show came on (Amici, its like American Idol and so you think you can dance mixed together.) One of the singers is from Fondi, and we like to watch, and they noticed that we were watching it and talking about it. Then a couple nights later, or maybe the next night, there was a soccer game on, and we were watching it and Fabio asked us if we like soccer, and we said yes, and he said he loves it, but only Napoli (which was one of the teams playing) and he was going crazy about every goal. Eleonora asked us how old we were and when we played in Fondi next and where. We told her when we played and invited them to come and they seemed super excited to come watch!

On another note, last Saturday we had an away game against the second place team, to cut to the point, we lost, 3-1. We only got one point from that loss and now we are either tied for first, or not very far ahead. But after the match, other players were talking to our coach and telling him that there is no way we could play together in a game if we didn't play together in practice, and didn't start doing more game related things in practice. Apparently we weren't the only ones that noticed that things needed to change. Now that we are playing teams for the second time, they are starting to get better, and we seem to be staying the same. The upside, we have had two practices this week and they have both been GREAT! We have actually started to work on some of our weaknesses and actually talking about things that aren't working on the court during games! Maybe people are starting to feel the pressure and the urgency to start winning, hopefully, we still have a good chunk of our season to go.
Many of the other European counties are entering playoffs, well not in Italy. We are still going strong in our regular season games, and playoffs all depend on how we end up in the season. If we come in first, we don't go to play-offs and we end on May 8th (yes our regular season doesn't end until then). If we get anywhere from 2nd-5th in the regular season then we will enter playoffs, and that could go until the end of May.


Italian word/phrase of the day: comunque  "anyway"  I have heard it used for the longest time and it is probably one of my new favorite words!

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