Bellevue

Our team (The Wildcats) went to a race to Bellevue.  It was Awesome. Our trip started Friday morning. No school.  *-*.
We drove all the way to Bellveu. It was a long drive. We previewed the course, ran couple of miles and just enjoyed ourselfs.
We stayed in a hotel for a night. The dinner was huge. I ate as much as I could.
We had to be in our rooms by 9:00PM and lights out by 10:00PM. We actually follow what was said because we wanted to do great. In the morning we had to wake up at 6:30 and 6:45 we had a shakeout run. Then breakfast and we set off to the race. It was a huge one lap race . Sometimes I asked myself why am I doing this. And today I finally found out why. It's called an ADRENALINE RUSH. I get it on the beginning and on the end of the race. It's much more intense on the end. When I take thr final corner and see thr finish line everything goes silent. I am completely deaf. I don't hear anything just me and the finish line. And that one moment is one of the best moments I have ever experienced. I want to train as hard as I can. When I go back I would like to run in races.

Bellevue

     Tomorrow the Wildcats are going for a race to Bellevue. It's almost a 5 hour drive with the bus. We will preview the course, throw our stuff in our rooms and buy some lunch. Saturday we have to get up at 06:30..... . Then a shakeout run, breakfast of "Champions" and getting ready for the race.            The race is another 5 kilometer race. I hope I'm ready for it. Today we ran 1 and a half hour straight. It doesn't sound to be a lot but believe me it is. We will see how will it turn out. This is our first trip where we actually sleep. The whole team is going. I'm very excited.

We arrive home at 9:30 PM to the school.

The health of my body.

I'm doing a lot for my body the last month.
Cross-country is great for my heart legs and breathing. I feel much better than I felt the first week of running.
I'm working out as well. Weightlifting Mon-Fri. I'm pushung my body to the limits. :) And it's awesome. However I need to learn to go to bed early.

Coach says it's important. Sleep before 10pm. Well right now its 22:32 so we can say I failed. :) The first days I was up until 3 even 4. And than imagine how much energy I had the other day. This is something I need to work on.

Funny rules

We have a main rule in the household.
1 . Don't listen to Jack
He talks a lot.  Some of the stuff is very interesting. Duane said that when he talks some of the information is real and some is made up. If he doesn't know the answer to something he makes it up.
2. Don't listen to Abby
3. Don't listen to Thomas
These rules are just for fun.
I love listening to them. :) They are funny.

Homecomming vs homecomming

Yesterday was homecomming in Mount Spokane. Angel went there and had a good time. Meanwhile I went to play bowling with other EF students. I met George who was flying with me from Austria. They are having homecomming next week and I will be joining them.

Well...

Today I went to school with flowers and a chocolate to ask a girl for homecomming. She was in my first period class , but I waited. After that I went to 2nd period and looked for her. She was in the Choral room so I went there kneeled down and asked her for homecomming. After that she said that she already had a homecomming date so.. But it was fun :)
She's really cool .  We had another race today and our team did great our top 5 runners were in the top 10 . I finished the race. That's always my only goal. And I accomplished it. Go Cats Go!

Sweets

In the evening I have given Abby and Jack some slovakian sweets and I wasn't expecting these results
     They tried Horalky and Deli. On a scale 1-10 horalky got 100/10. I was really surprised they liked it so much.
The second and the last sweet was Deli. When Jack took a bite he ran to the toilet and spitted it out. Abby swallowed it somehow. The score on the scale 1-10 was -10 A couple days back I brought snacks to the tv, a box of Tyčinky.  They loved it. It's interesting how we all differ from each other.

5K race

Race day today :) I have to say It was amazing experience we woke up really early, rode to the school, picked up our stuff and went to the race. We waited for aprox. 1 hour and then we did the 5 kilometer race. To be honest I am a bit proud of myself :) . In the morning I wasn't convinced I can do the race. We did the  warmup and I was already dead. When the race started I sprinted and after the first K I had to slow down. I couldn't keep up. But I ran as hard as I could. The only thing I remember is that somehow I gained energy the last 600m and ran full hammer mode. I never ran so hard as I did today. We finished second to the last but I wasn't competing against the other team but against my own limits. Afterwards we had some small snack and went home. Tomorow another "shakeout" run. We will see if I will be able to get up from the bed.

Cross country 1day before DDay

Today it's Friday Yay. Todaywe had evacuation in the school in the middle of Maths. That was cool. Afterwards in the lockers I hit my head in the locker's corner. I was a bit dizzy but I still went for a run. Tomorow we have a cross-country race. It was like a small practice. After the practice we went for dinner to a friends house. It was awesome. The whole team was there. At first I thought I wouldn't go because my head was hurt bad. But I'm glad I went . We had a lot of fun . Diner was awesome. Meatballs ,pasta and dessert. Just chillin , talking , it was great. After diner we went out with Abby to the playground. She made some new friends . :)

Tomorow I need to get up at 6AM. We will run as a team I hope I will be able to keep up with them.

The School

       I would like to say a few words about my school. First of all its huge. To be honest I got lost a couple times here. We have 2 bigger breaks where students eat. On the first break one half of the school is eating while the second half is going to the classes. On the second break they switch. They have to otherwise they wouldn't fit in the hall. You can pick any class you can imagine.

When the bell rings it's really hard to move in the coridoors. 

So many people moving everywhere.

        Like one week ago i was given two lockers, one for crosscountry and one for books and my jacket and stuff like that. There are two codes to remember and I lost the code for the locker which is for the books.However I wouldn't really use the locker anyway so.  

Mount Spokane

Today we drove up to Mount Spokane :). I'm looking forward to ski on these slopes. When we drove up I could feel the difference on the air. Much cleaner, much easier to breathe. 

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I noticed a couple things when we went on this trip.

1. Duane ( my host father) has never actually passed anyone before. At least I have never seen him pass. :) (joke)

2. Jack ( my middle brother) is so afraid of driving in the mountains. I wanted to laugh so hard. I mean it was a normal road, a normal asphalt road.. . Just because there were some curves.. I don't really know.

3. Today Jack and Abby have seen grasshopper for the first time. When I was small I used to catch them. Today they learned to catch them :)

Today I finally figured out what I wanna study.

Today I finally figured out what I wanna study.

        I went from German 3 to German 1 but I think I can do more than that. German 1 are complete begginers however Thomas ( my host brother is taking the class). Tomorow I will have my first Biology lesson , looking forward to it. Oh by the way the crosscountry training is not so exhausting than it was before. I found my own style of running so I can keep up with the rest. God I feel so tired after school and the training. Today at lunch I sat with Arley a guy that I go to Maths with, I have to say he is really cool. He moved here couple years ago. He's also snowboarding so looking forward to that. None of my family members skies or snowboards so. Yeah..

Weird

So
Some of the people act a bit weird sometimes. You just need to figure out which ones you wanna have around. I know some amazing people that is fun to be with and then there is a group where you just dont want to be...
Anyway tomorow I will change some of my subjects. I tried something new. It's time to be serious.

1st day at school

The First day
We actually were learning.  The first day. Im not used to this. My brain is completely exhausted. And my body too. The school in the morning breaks down my brain and the crosscountry my body. :) Thomas said the lunch at the school is crapy but I was looking at it and it wasn't looking so bad. Tomorow I will try the food in school It cannot be so bad.

Yesssss

So good news
So basically I was supposed to stay at a arrival family and then go to my permanent family. However today they announced that I will be staying with them *-*. So happy