Thursday Sept 17, 2009

Yesterday and today were pretty relaxing days. I had the whole day off yesterday so after my morning workout/lifting I just cruised around town checking out the city of Goettingen a little more. I also had to do some grocery shopping, so I figured I'd do that while I was out and about. Now, first things first. The grocery stores are about 1/4 the size of the ones in the states and with a smaller selection. Plus you have to either rent a shopping cart or buy your own plastic bags, which I didnt know. Later however, I found out you can bring your own bag from home if you have one. So, me being the new, non german speaking dork, I was walking around holding all my food, which had to be pretty funny to the local people. Anyways, while I'm walking around looking at food, which I can't read the name of, I noticed the a butter container with my name on it, RAMA (see Picture). I guess I'm a big deal out here more than I thought..haha...Today, was a pretty beautiful day so I decided to walk to my gym. It's not that far, about 12min walking from my apartment. After my workout I had to coach my 16u team and I introduced them to the offense today. I hope they got it because some of them looked at me like I was from outerspace or something. We'll see when the first game comes. Following that practice I had my team practice which went pretty good except I was very slow to start out. for some reason I couldn't get focused until after I made a couple dumb plays. Coach brought in a couple other guards to test me against and I did pretty good, so I think he was pleased. My knee is feeling better, still not 100% but its getting stronger every day. I hope by the first game it will be at least 90%. Anyways, I have posted more pictures of the town from my walk home from the gym and another picture of my car. So I hope you like.