DBROne of the cool moments had to definately be Friday, the 27th. I went to Crisler just to shoot around and play some ball by myself. Well Anthony Write, one of our players was there shooting arounda s well. After I had played for a while he sat down and wsa texting on his phone. I eventually went over there and challanged him to a game of 1-on-1, and what an expereince. The first game he started on top and lead the whole game with me just making a few shots here and there. THe second game was a whole new ball game. We were going to 11. Ant started on top, but I was able to tie with him 5 different times at 2-2, 4-4, 7,8, and 9. THe game was 9-9 for good heavens! And I missed an open yet rushed 3-pointer and then he made a quick jumpshot and finished the game with a leaning 3 pointer from the extended elbow and I lost, 11-9. 11-9! What a game! Anthony Wright is a very good player. He is a 6´6" 235 lb player from Oak Hill Academy in Virginia, who was the leading scorer against Oklahoma in the NCAA Second Round game with 18 points. And I almost beat him! It was so much fun, hahaha. Great game. I am sure he could ahve just puled upa shot anywere in between but he wanted to get some cardio in so that he didnt have to run stairs, so it worked out both ways.
Then my birthday was comming up,a nd that was great stuff. I was going to be 20 on thursday, april 2nd. It was a big day. 20is old, like really old. But your only half a man, cause your not a teen anymore so you cant get away with anything anymore ut your not 21 so you are not fully a man. But still, bottom line: you´re old. My mom was awesome enough to send my roomates a check to go out to eat on Weds night in celebrationa nd that was awesome.Thursday morning came, and it started off an epic adventure. We had morning prayer as a room and after that all my roomate screamed "¡Bolita!" and jumped me and with the weight of all of them on me, I collapsed on my right foot. It hurt so bad, its been a while that I roleld my ankle. ut it was all right. I iced it and went to breakfast and then philosophy class. What a great birthday present: a sprained ankle. It sucked walking to the gym, hahaha. The rest of the day was study, study study study for my Statistics 350 midterm. It was a lot of numbers and a lot of trying to figure what was going on and a lot of wikipedia to figure it out all on my own. It seemed hopeless but I drank some Bawls and had my pump up music and went to the Undergraduate Science Building pumped up for my exam and full of asrinaline. I took it, and thats all I need to say about that.
I got back to my room and chilled for a while in the room playing Call of Duty online. Then the boys came and we chiled and talked cars. And in the midst of showing Bradly a video clip of Top Gear and the Porsche GT2, the lights just shut off and in come these singing girls with this thing, this ball with cardbord and string and wow I had no idea what it was but my face just lit up! I got up and low and behold they were infact holding what appeared a basketball, but in the consistency of a cake! And it had a backboard that said "Happy Birdthday DP!" and even had a rim and a net! How mucho more could you get? Haha, I have no idea! This was incredible!
We had an awesome time with the cake and cake wars and watching my highschool 6-man highlights and playing in the rain outside and just goofing off for a night of fun. It was great, great great suff. I was really glad that Bethie and Rina and Danny could make me that cake. It was so cool. And the boys were great, having fun and jumping around and haha I dont even remember half of it besides it was awesome! Yeah! And on top of that, after everyone left us dudes watched Top Gear witht the Semi Truck episode, so hilarious! It was a long and full and eventful day, comming out of it with a sore foot, a crammed head, and a stomack full of sugur, but you cant get mroe complete than that, can you? God is good, and he has blessed me with wonderfull friends and a wonderful enviorment and 20 great years. My mom always said that when she was young she thought 40 was old when her mother turned 40. But once she hit 40 herself, she thought, thats not old! Well guess what?...I am half way to 40. Oh dear. I feel like my life will end at 40! Think about how sucky that would be, being all old and half cool and not having that much time to play basketball or hang out with the boys and smoke pipes and talk philosophy! How sucky that would be. I would proboly have a wife or something to take care of and people who look to me and I would have responsibilities, nasty word really. Hahah, this is all in play cause I am on my way already, and we will see where God takes me! 40, here I come!
Me after the epic icing/cake wars
Alex after his defeat by Mark
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