The pictures are a flashback to Monday of the food booth the volleyball team ran at the beach. The bottom picture is of the guys selling food and drink. The guy in red is Andy Best. He's a great guy, a middle/right side hitter on the team, and always brings me a mango at practice. I really appreciate that. He's also a tax collector by day. The top picture is a behind the scenes look at how they prepare the food. They're making soup and hamming it up for the camera. Keith is the rasta man on the left, Peter (outside hitter/ds) is on the left stirring the soup, Junior (setter/middle/outside) is breaking sticks to put in the fire, and Patrick is 'supervising' from behind the wall. It was chicken soup and was delicious!
I spent Tuesday at home working on the adidas equipment, relaxing my sore muscles from playing the day before, and getting ready for women's national team practice in the evening. The adidas order is progressing well and I am pleased so far. My goal is to have everything ordered before I leave. It appears unlikely anything will arrive before I leave but that is okay. I will detail the order once we get it finalized.
Practice tonight was difficult. It rained most of the day and began raining hard again at 4:30 and rained until about 5:30pm. Our practice was scheduled from 5pm-7:30pm. We stayed at the court under shelters during the rain but did not want to cancel practice because so many of the athletes traveled far to come. Some had to pay bus fare to come. So we waited. Finally it stopped. We got out brooms and swept the court of all standing water. It was still very slippery so we did 'slow' transition footwork reps to create muscle memory. We then walked through base defense and team defense positions. Finally at about 6:50pm we got out the balls and served a minute to get loose and then scrimmaged, working on serve receive plays and switching and team defense. The starting six are getting VERY GOOD!!! Ball handling is much improved and our setting is also greatly improved (BettyAnn is doing a remarkable job and becoming a leader on the team...she is very positive and relates well with everyone). Rechelle and Jenny are terrific middles and Rechelle may be the best athlete and volleyball player on the team. Metric and Maggini are our outside hitters and both have excellent ball control and are our 'loud talkers.' Latisha is young, but developing quickly as a right side hitter. We do not have a libero at this time.... and really don't need one. We need a scrimmage game to see exactly where we are and what weaknesses we have.
It rained hard last night again...so hard it woke me up. That is very unusual as I am a sound sleeper and that is the first time I have seen it rain this hard here. The dry season is definitely over and everything is turning green again. What was once a brown, dry landscape looking to the west from my porch, is now becoming green and beautiful.
I made soup yesterday and it was delicious!!! I cooked chicken soup (with the bone).
I'm getting used to the heat. I'm able to keep the air conditioner off longer and am down to only two showers a day!
Still no "stroop"....
Happy Birthday Joan!
Respect and Love.
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