Basketball Camp!!!!!!!!!!

I have recently been on a trip with my dad and with my whole basketball team (all Polish girls) that I am involved with here. We went to a basketball camp for 10 days and we stayed at a sport campground about 4 hours from Krakow. We rode on a very old bus, but I managed to survive the trip! The campground was called Banderoza and we were in a city called Guhoowazy. It was a very nice camp and I stayed in a room with 5 other girls. I already knew many of them but I did end up meeting a few new girls. It was like the first night that we arrived and the girls started teaching me Polish and I would teach them English. I learned quite a bit of Polish all in that night!!!!

We ate in a cafeteria for every meal. They served us breakfast at 8 am which usually consisted of bread and jam. Sometimes they would even serve kielbasa which is like sausage. We would eat lunch at 1 or 3 pm and we would always have either meat or fish with potatoes and soup. And for every meal we would drink Herbata (which is tea) or peach juice. We would eat dinner at 6 or 8 pm and it was either left overs or bread with jam. A few nights though we had noodles with a raspberry sauce on top. It was very good.

On the campground there was a small restaurant. They served small items like fries and hamburgers. But I like the ice creams they made. Also on the campus they had a swimming pool!!!!! I did go a few times but let me tell you about the temperature. The water came straight from the mountain!!!!!!!!! It was about 59 F but it felt like 20 degrees. IT WAS COLD!!!!!!!!!! But we did swim around some. They also had stables where they had 3 horses and 5 goats. I liked giving the horses apples from a nearby tree. I had to throw a rock up in the tree just to get one apple!

That is where we stayed for 10 days. Every day we would have basketball practice in a gym. We would practice 2 or 3 times a day. One wasn't really basketball practice, but it was agility training. We would either run through a forest nearby or go out in a field and do certain exercises. I did learn some new basketball tips and other things. It was good practice though. We also had a 1 game the day before we left. We lost. We were playing against all 12 year old girls and they were all really tall!!!!!!!

A few days we would not practice, and we would just have a resting day. One of the days we went to the Czech Republic in the bus and we visited a cave. The cave was very interesting but quite cold!!!!!! There were many unique rock formations. Another day we went to a Salt Room! It was very relaxing. They said it is healthy. It was just a room with reclining chairs, salt blocks, "pebble" looking salt, and small color lights. It had trickling water coming down the salt blocks. It was very nice!!!!!!!

So you can see how much fun the camp was. I had a great time!!!!!!! I hope you enjoy the pictures below!

This is my team. This is before we left Krakow.

These are two of the girls that were in my room.

This is the area of the campground were all the rooms are.

This is a rock formation in the cave we went to in the Czech Republic.

These are some of my Polish friends.