Getting to go home for Christmas and New Years was an awesome time. Being able to see friends and family for ten days was a great time and sort of re-energized me to come back over here and have a great second half of the season. While home I saw Avatar 3-D and if anyone has not seen it yet, i recommend you to see it. It is a great movie and I believe it has started a new generation of movies for our generation. 3-D is amazing but takes time to get used to, I got a little dizzy at the beginning, but got used to it. Santa was very generous to me this Christmas which means I must of been a good boy. I got a lot of clothes, shoes, gift cards and money, ... read more

I cant believe I have been here for four months and I will be home in less then a week for Christmas and New Years. Time has really flown by over here, but I am having an awesome experience.So with no more school left until after Christmas is such a great feeling. This first semester was a good one i hope, and i say that because I dont have all my grades back yet ha, but feeling confident I did ok. I need this little break though before our exams. I have two exams when I get back in Finance and Sports Marketing that are going to kick my butt, but I ill survive...This week with nothing to do except play basketball is a great life and I am very jealous of all those professional athletes ... read more

For all that dont know, they dont celebrate Thanksgiving over here, just thought I start off with that to confirm that with people back at home! But it is 1245 in the morning so for me it is Thanksgiving so I want to be the first to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone back at home. Since it isnt a holiday over here, I will be going to class tomorrow which will be a little wierd for me. My dad, sister and brother arrived today, my mom couldnt make the trip, she is in Miami with my grandparents. Mom I hope you are staying warm because it is about 30 degrees here with a ton of wind, wish you were here though! We had an awesome first day in Belfast. They are staying at the Europa, which ... read more

Halloween over here in Northern Ireland is quite the Holiday and let me tell yeah, i got the full experience of Halloween over here. People started dressing up as early as Wednesday over here which is pretty cool, saw some awesome costumes! Where we get our free meal a day (Randalphs) the waitresses dressed up Friday and Saturday and they were all creative. Some of the costumes were a Pregnant Nun, Plumber, Witch and Devil. It was my two favorite days to go into Randy's. Saturday we had another SuperLeague game. It was against the defending champions UCC Demons. They were from Cork which is down south. Even for our game people dressed up for our game. I loved their dedication to Halloween over here. We started the game on fire, pulling out to a 28-7 ... read more

The beginning of the week has been good so far. Teaching class Monday morning was very good, I let the kids play 5on5 for the first time and they actually did a great job. The week before I tried to teach them the concept of screening and they had a tough time tackling the idea of it. So i finally got the chance to give homework to the students and it felt great, guess what the homework was?!?! I made them go on youtube and watch my screen on Nolan Smith and the only question they had to answer so I could make sure they did it was who was the team i set the screen on, im guessing im a pretty easy teacher!! The only downfall of my Monday was the conditioning i had to ... read more