2010 1112 Fall Break

Me in Last Game

The last two weeks I have been doing more cool things. I went to the Taby hockey camp right here in Taby due to Fall Break. They have Fall Break here on week 44 and there is no school. The camp was fun but challenging. Some of the activities that we did in the camp were play football (soccer), complete physical training off of the ice, have technique practice on the ice, and we also played games or scrimmages three times during the week. The camp was with the '96 team and the '97's. We also ate luch and snacks that were provided by the rink. Another thing that was a cool to see were some of the kids my age were refereeing the youinger games before us. On Thursday night, we went to Erik's grandparents' house and ate moose! This tasted very good and much like turkey while looking a similar color as beef. My dad also came last friday and will stay until Monday morning. Besides the camp, we had practices on some of the nights as well. On Saturday, we went to an Ultimate Performance training which helps kids our age train with weights better and become more flexible. After this practice, we went to eat dinner out with Erik's cousins from his dad's side this time. I got to meet more people and it was pretty fun to be at their house. The next few days we had some more training before Tuesday. Tuesday we recieved about three inches of snow in the afternoon. This was a shock to my dad and I as it is only the beginning of November. We went out in the snow and had dinner at a pizza restaurant after an open skating time with only about five people there. Here they call that Almis where in the United States it is called stick&puck. Late Tuesday night I recieved news that I would be playing on Wednesday with the 2nd team. I was excited to hear this and played okay in a 5-3 victory. However, there was no time to celebrate anything as the next day we would play a big league game against one of the other best teams in the league. A teammate from the Washington All-Stars plays on this team. He is the captain and Shane and I wanted to beat him. However, they were a very defensive team and our team did not play well offensively so we lost a dissapointing 2-0 game. Now we are in scond place of ten teams in our division and need to win our next few games to stay in the race for first place. We have a game tomorrow night. Today, at school it was a holiday like Halloween where everyone dressed up in scary costumes. Because of this, I took the day off school to go to downtown Stockholm for the day with my dad. We slept in before taking the train and the bus to two different museums. The first was more about the history of Scandinavia and was not as exciting as the second museum which was all about a ship that sank over 300 years ago. People brought the ship up above water about 30 years ago. They are still preserving it and brought the whole boat up to make up the museum. There are seven levels to view this huge boat. This was a fun day to spend with my dad and maybe we can go to the Vasa Museum again. Now I am off to hockey training.