First, we are officially students at the University of Vienna. (Uni Wien) After over a month of emailing back and forth, we finally were told that the documents we had would sufice for admission and spent Tuesday and Friday of this week making sure everything was in order. Our class begins November 16th. Osier and I both applied for the Bachelors program in Education of Sports and English...but since we are not fluent in German, we are alloted 4 semesters to take nothing but German before having to pass a proficiency test to begin the Undergrad classes.
Being a student means we can apply for our student visa finally. It also means we get insurance coverage under the universtiy and have the ability to save money on a great number of things by using our student IDs. The student IDs are funny...they are a folded sheet of paper with a passport photo glued inside and stamped. Nothing like the states. They love to use paper here for everything. AND they love to carry their papers around in little plastic covers. Whatever works, I guess.
The second thing comes in the form of a sweet victory. Friday night our game was at Klosterneuerg...who, if nothing, has hands down the best gym name EVER. (Happyland) It was not such a happy night for them though as we led from the start and continually increased our lead by 5 points every quarter, never really letting them back in the game. The game was overall the best we have played and we finally got some point production from an array of players and Osier and I each finished with 18. This is one of the first games I have felt like we didn't NEED to score all the points. The final score had us winning by 19 points and the MVP of Austrian players of the league last year was held to under 10 points.We played a little bit inspired, since our 30 point loss last Sunday and the fact that Klo-berg beat us by 3 points earlier in the season. This win also propelled us to the second position in the league (head-to-head and point spreads). I hope we can use this game as a platform to really take off and start playing better basketball, but the season is long and every team is on a rollercoaster.
Tonight we plan on celebrating the victory and finally hanging out with a teammate who has been in quarantine for Swine flu. (she didn't HAVE it) We are also going to attend the Basketclubs game this evening and hopefully witness a victory for that program as well. We were debating going since they haven't won a game while we have been present. Anyways, I need to take some time now to tweak my fantasy rosters...yes, there is Basketball now also. And I must say that I would have rather had the Dodgers win the world series *gasp* rather than the Yankees.
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