the irish based players started their trek in dublin airport at 5am on the 5th of august. we took a flight to finland that brought us into the country at 12pm their time only to find that the american girls had been waiting on the bus for hours poor things. and that is the last time i will be referrin to them as the american girls.. there are 18 girls on the irish womens team and in my eyes we are all irish, and im sick of telling people this! an hour and a half later and the bus pulled into Hotel Salpaus, my home for the next 12 days. we were roomed together at random and i drew skip our goalie and our room is on the second floor, not a problem since the restaurant is on our floor but no one else from our team is here :( dont know how it happened but we have gotten over it as it seems that the men are causing a bit og havoc on the 3rd floor...more on that later...
so we as a team havent played alot together at all... and we were given only 3 practises together berfore the games, not good enough for us so we were clever and got up at 6.45am for 7am practises in all weather conditions, ouch.. it has made the trip seem extra long so odd! then there were the uniforms to be concerned about.. i think that gibby might have chosen kiddies sizes or something..aerodynamic is a word that has been tossed about ;) im wearing 13 and so far it has done me proud. yesterday we faced Austria, our first match. we beat them 15:1!! the best part for me was that i scored my first ever international goal in lacrosse, actually i scored my first ever goal!! yeaterday was the first time that i played in the middie line and i was bricking it before i went on, but once on the pitch i settled and enjoyed myself, all until i pulled my quad, whilst i scored!karma?! the goal itself was beautiful, and i think it was caught on tape... if it was i will post it (how big headed)
today we face Sweden, fanny.... who will you be supporting?!?!
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