So I am a little behind on my postings, but I am going to attempt to catch everyone up to speed in 2 blogs!
It has been a very busy three weeks full of many ups and downs and a variety of emotions.........
We had our 13th game of the season against Sinsheim at home. We played them in November and beat them 3-0 quit handily in Sinsheim. We started the match off really strong. Sinsheim wasn’t quite ready for the ass whooping we were going to lay on them in game 1. We came out all guns blazing, serving hard and blocking a lot of balls. We finished the first game in less than 20 minutes with the final score being 25-11.
The second game was a different story. We had a little breakdown on passing and were struggling to get the ball to the setter to get any attacks off. The game just kind of finished and we hadn’t really even realized that we’d lost. The final score was 20-25 and I was surprised that it was even that close for us because of how poorly we played. We knew that we had to play better for the next two games because there was no way we were going to go to five!
In the third and fourth games we still struggled a bit to find our passing form but we were still able to pull off the victories in both sets with the final scores being 25-15 and 25-12 in our favour. The fans and our managers were very happy after the match as we were now 13-0 and 2 games away from clinching the league!! It was also my home debut at right side and my third match playing that position. The transition has been very smooth and I am starting to feel more comfortable each match on the opposite of the court! Hopefully we could clinch the league in the next two games so we could have the rest of the Monday’s off for the rest of the season!
The next weekend we had no match so I decided to head up to Langen again to visit the basketball boys. I arrived on the Friday night quit late so it was straight to bed for me as I had a busy day of sightseeing in Frankfurt before Basti was going to pick me up in the afternoon.
I started the day off at 9:30 am with a 2 km walk to the train station in Langen, something I didn’t mind one bit as it was so sunny! I couldn’t have picked a better day to see the city. After a short train ride and some major guessing on where to get off I had arrived in the city centre. The first place I went was the main tower which gave me a 360 degree view of the city! It was so beautiful to see so far into the horizon and also exactly where I was going to go on my walking tour! This tower wasn’t the tallest in the city but it was over 225m high!
After the tower I went on a 17 site walking tour! The main sites of the trip were many of the places I went walking on during the Christmas market before I came home in December. I saw the main catholic church with the tower being 95m in height, walked across the Iron bridge to Sachsenhausen (south Frankfurt), walked around the Römerberg and saw all the buildings and houses that had been restored since WW II, went to a few churches one of which was the home of the German National Assembly and viewed the house of the famous German poet Goethe! After a leisurely lunch at a cafe that was in the old train station it was time to head back to Langen.
The Munster, and the main square
The Frankfurt Hauptbahnof from the sky
The east of Frankfurt
Basti picked me up and we went headed back to his place for a pre-game meal and then it was time to head off to their game. Langen was down by 3 points with less than 10 seconds left when one of the Langen players was fouled shooting a 3 with no time left on the clock. He hit all 3 foul shots to force the game to overtime. Unfortunately they lost by 2 points missing the last shot with a chance to win the game.
The next day we went for a leisurely stroll around Darmstadt, a town about 15 km south of Langen. We hit some of the major sights the unique circular Roman Catholic Church, the building where the chemical element Darmstadtium (atomic number 110) was found, some beautiful parks, the Hochzeitsturm called the Marriage tower or the Five-Finger-Tower in English and the most famous sit in Darmstadt the Luisenplatz which is th main square in the city. It is named for Holy Roman Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian. Then we had some coffee and cake (Kaffee und Kuchen) before we headed back to Langen.
The Wedding tower
The next day it was time to head back to Villingen. It was a very busy weekend of sightseeing, thankfully I had a camera since my mom mailed me hers after I broke mine the last time I went to Langen. I was kind of back to Villingen because the upcoming weekend was Fastnacht or more commonly known as Karneval!!
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