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By: Sean and Niki Today is the last day we will have a scrimmage. The team we played was Vasas. They were probably the best team we have gone against. We played there 19s team and there 16s team. Both teams brought different challenges. The 16s team made it very difficult to shoot with a hard press. The 19s team would be in a zone and made it hard to get calls and goals out of center. These teams gave us a lot of challenges. One was how to attack as we were not shooting or passing as well as we should have been. We started to get frustrated with each other. Being athletes, competition makes us who we are and this means that we will fight and butt heads. The book The Inner Game of ... read more

By: Zander and Koutn By the time we had explored and had many restless nights in hungary, the seventh day had arrived sooner than we expected. On the seventh morning, Dusty gave us news that we would be having a ruthless punishment due to people staying out of their room the night before. We looked into the day with gloomy hope of a restful practice. Leaving our hotel in the morning, we hopped onto our long bus ride, knowing that it would be taking us to our venue where we would be punished. After getting out of the bus and walking into the facility, we were able to see the pool we would be in. This was no ordinary pool, it was long course, meaning the pool was 50 meters. With all the intimidation of what ... read more

By: Aidan Djavadi, Aaron Arias "We may need to learn how to feel again and learn how to learn again." Today we transitioned from tourism to water polo. Before our first training with Ferencvárosi Torna Club (FTC) aka "Fraddi" we went to Hero's square. Hero's square is noted for its iconic statue complex featuring the seven chieftains of the magyars and other important national leaders. This land mark is a great recognition for the brave chieftains. This piece of history marked the beginning of the end of our first half in Hungary and the transitioning from tourism to water polo. FTC is home to well known olympic athletes Dániel Varga, Norbert Madaras, and Stefan Mitrović. As well as being home to these well known athletes, FTC has 79 medals from 1909-1999. After being established in 1899 ... read more

By Josh and Milan- Today we had breakfast at 8:30 and left the hotel at 9:00. We went to the Szecseni baths. During our time in the baths we went in the hot tub, sauna, steam room, and an ice pool. After walking in and out of the pools for about two hours we dried and left. We ate lunch at a restaurant across the street. After eating we got on a bus to go to the hotel. On the ride we played the party game to pass time. (This is a mind game where each person must figure out the pattern or category that "gets you into the party.") We then went on a bus to the 5th and 3rd place games. Montenegro got fifth place against Italy and Serbia got third place against Greece. ... read more

By Chad and Taylor- We landed in Budapest around 11:40. It took an hour to get through customs because there were so many people. When we got to the hotel, we rested for 20 minutes and then went to the local market to get a snack. After that, we walked back to the hotel and watched Australia and Italy play against each other on TV. About an hour and a half after the game was done, we all went to Stefanía's Pizzaria for dinner at 6pm. The food and coffee there was wonderful. They had big portions for low prices. After we had stuffed ourselves with pizza, we went to the FINA World Championships. First we watched Hungary and Greece play at 8:30pm. Hungary won 7-5 in the semi final. Then we watched Serbia and Croatia ... read more