Hotel Figl Bolzano

2 planes - 1 bus - 3 trains - 1 taxi later and we arrive in Bressanone. About 40 hrs of transit was well worth it... this place is adorable - its like walking around in a postcard. Have been snowboarding the past 3 days which was lots of fun - bussed up the mountain to Plose ski fields area... have added some pictures and will caption the pictures if we can.

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Last night the student association UniParty had a `Rookie Party` in the basement of the museum. This was a lot of fun! Apparently the student associations, which are like clubs in Canada, organize lots of events.

As for school, we just had the info session on how to sign up for classes today, a day after they started! I`ll have to take care of that tomorrow. There aren`t that many classes to choose from though, because only a third are in English and only ...

... The open the door and sit down and begin to question this guy. I have my music playing so I was not really paying attention but I figure this guy has no documents with him. He appears to be fluent in German and wrote down his name, date of birth, phone number and maybe where he originated from. I could kind of hear them talking about some of the places this guy came from but I am not really sure what he did. They got off at the next ...

... cover 4, keeping 4 defenders back to stop the long pass. Forlai jumped up on a run fake and #3 ran right by him. They couldn’t run the ball so why our safety wanted to jump up and respect the run fake is beyond me. Just do your job, stay deep – trust your teammates.

Back on offense Reggie rushed for 16 yards, I hit Beppe for 12 yards on an arrow route, then scrambled for 8, before hitting Panzani for 16 yards on a deep comeback ...

... with no shirt on, wearing long white basketball shorts, a backwards Marlins hat, and carrying my backpack. I’ve pretty much assimilated seamlessly.

We walked up to a park near the center along the river to play ping pong. Ciba has two old paddles, his is covered with stickers from the Bolzano Giants, Bolzano Jets, and various other football teams. I started out hot and once again proved America’s ping-pong dominance over Italy. It was hot so ...

... I on theway down I asked Tisma if he had charged the camera, half joking.

 

At the game, I started filming but after a few minutes thecamera stopped filming and went into 'safe mode.'  I frantically tried to get it working and thought it was anissue with the battery coming unattached so I got the power cord and plugged itin to an outlet in the stands. That didn't help.  I yelledto Tisma and he came over to inspect it. He ejected the tape and saw that the tape ribbon ...

... we headed west taking a pass from Canazei through to Bolzano. Ouur home for the night is in Tassulo in the south of Valle Di Non. You can see the alps in the distance. The valley is agricultural with thousands of fruit orchards and vineyards. We did a little sight seeing and walked up to the ancient sanctuary of San Romedio. Tomorrow we heaad off west again towards Lake Como. Not sure what we will see there... perhaps the odd celebrity!?

... far in looking out and taking care of hisguys (look at the Giants car or apartment we've been given).  Reed likes to say he gives us theminimum and expects the maximum and for the most part he is right, but at theend of the day I'm out in Italy collecting a check to play football, so I trynot to sweat the details.

 

In other new, Edwin (who I am now getting along with verywell) had informed me that a girl (whom he didn't really know outside ofFacebook contact) from near ...

... and mozzarella scrambled eggs and Andrea made Mike tea for his couch that he acquired on the airplane, then toasted an abundance of bread for us. Lauren brought a 7 ¾ sized M's authentic hat for Andrea and I hoped it was going to be the right size. We ate then I presented Andrea with his hat. He was ecstatic. You can't find 7 ¾ fitted New Era hats in Italy. We stopped by Ciba's and I did a load of laundry, introduced Mike to Ciba, and then we showed ...

... going to be you." E "20-25 touches, you ready Bob?" B "Yeah, I guess, bring it on right." Bob walks out. E "Reggie, you're just messing right, you're playing today." R "No nah, I'm not playing today, I tweaked my hamstring last night." I almost fainted. No Marco, no Reggie, Chiro our left tackle couldn't make it. We were going into this one with less than a full deck. I went out and ran through the running plays with Bob and Garo the Arena team ...