Saturday, January 12, 2013

Having a great time in the States

Hey everyone! I finally got some time to write again. I have been super busy with basketball and all so I also forgot to write. First I will tell something about school. First semester is finally over, and I think I did pretty good. I got three B's and four A's. I'm pretty happy about that. Also, I started a new semester this week, and only new class I have is athletic weights. Two of last semesters classes ended for me, photography and lifetime sports. Other than that, all my classes are the same, except now I have AP physics in two periods, which means I have it every day.

Basketball is going good, even though our team is not doing that well. We have practice or game every day but Sunday and it's pretty tough. My small team got second in that fundraiser that I told about earlier, so we got a limo ride to a Denver Nuggets game on January 1st. We also got to sit courtside for a while and we met two of their centers early on. We we're supposed to get post game passes too and meet more players but it was too late to get them. Anyway, it was super awesome and I had a blast. Nuggets played against LA Clippers, and Nuggets stopped their 17 game win streak. Besides basketball, one of my favorite sports to follow is football. I like watching those games and especially Denver Broncos. They we're doing really good, but tonight they lost in the playoffs.

Christmas here was pretty much the same, except here people start decorating their houses super early and first Christmas tree I saw was before Thanksgiving. We had a little over two week Christmas break from school, and it was nice. Also, Brian came home from college and he has just been goofing around here. We agreed to climb a fourteener in the summer. That means a 14,000 feet high mountain, which in meters is little over 4,000 meters. I spent a week with a friend because my host family went to Florida, and it was at the same time I had that Nuggets game, where I really, really wanted to go. Spending time with Luke was great. On new year's eve we went bowling with Erik and then we came back and set off some fire works. Later that week we went to ski in Keystone ski resort with some other friends and it was amazing. Everybody should see those views up there, it's unbelievable. I borrowed one guy's go pro video camera and got some footage of those runs. It's pretty cool. It has gotten cold, but not nearly as cold as in Finland. Sometimes it gets warm though. One day I wore shorts outside and I was just fine. I love Colorado weather.

See ya after few months!
Jaakko