We had our last practice before flying to Russia this morning. We didn’t really do much of anything; practice was just a review of everything we did the whole week. There was no scrimmaging, all we did was work on a press break and how we’re going to press other teams. After that we did half-court reviews of the plays, and that was really it. We finished in probably like an hour and 20 minutes.

After practice I tried to do some last minute packing and a couple of us went to Georgetown to an Italian restaurant to get something to eat. We didn’t get a chance to look around the campus at Georgetown. We only saw the arena. Of what we did see though the campus looks fairly new and there’s some construction going on, but it’s a pretty nice campus.

I’m feeling kind of hot and cold about the trip to Russia. It’s a very, very long flight. We go from here to Frankfurt, Germany. That’s probably like six hours, and then we have an eight hour layover. We’re not really looking forward to that part. From Frankfurt, it’s another four hour flight to Russia.

We’re flying business class, so when we get to Frankfurt we’ll get to chill in an executive lounge at the airport. I can’t imagine there’ll be too much to do during the layover unless you’re an airport shopper, which I definitely am not.

In order to keep myself busy on the flight and during the layover I’ve got a game plan. I have my Nintendo DS, and the games I’m bringing are Super Mario and Mario Kart. I’ll also have my laptop and my I-Pod. I also bought a book called Monster. I saw a TV show about the book and thought it would be interesting. It’s about a former LA gang member. During the first leg of the trip I’ll probably sleep though, we leave at like 9:30 tonight.

I was actually pretty surprised by practice today because we really didn’t do anything new. But we do have two more practices before we play. I’m also kind of surprised that we haven’t scrimmaged that much either because without actually playing it’s kind of hard to see where everyone fits as part of the team.

I guess I’ll have to wait, like the rest of my teammates, until we get to Russia to find out how lineups and playing time will work. I’m looking forward to representing my country on the court and mostly just can’t wait to start playing games again.

Make sure to check back here through the next few days. I’ll be updating my blog from Russia. And as always thanks for keeping up with my blog.

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