One and "O"!!!

We won our first official Italian League game. All first games were played in Naples, so all the teams were in one place, even staying at the same hotel! Can we say social overload?!? It was still a stretch for me to be amongst 100 players, most of whom I know who they are but have never spoken to them, a small part are only acquaintances, and an even smaller part I know enough to go have a conversation with. That group is so small because all but like one player that I've played with in Ribera are no longer in Italy, or just not in the first division any more. Needless to say, awkwardness happened...

But we all got through it. Our team won by like 24 points, and since our mid-week Euroleague games don't start until the end of this month, we have a whole week of practice ahead of us! It's normal for me, but for my teammates who are used to being on an awesome team and playing in two leagues, it's like torture to practice so much. We joked that we Americans had a case of the "Mondays" yesterday AND today :)

Italian Lesson of the blog: "Bello". This can mean the obvious "beautiful" (Jodi's favorite saying is also "Ciao Bella!!!), but it can also be used in the way we use the word "nice", but not in the "she's a nice person" kind of way, but more like "it was nice to meet you" way. I bring this up because my mom saw that someone wrote on my facebook wall "Che bello vederti in tv", and she thought it was some Italian guy saying I looked beautiful on TV... Instead, it was a teammate from last year saying that it was so nice to see me on TV... Mamma mia!!! (Literally!) No more trying to translate people :)