Our Hosts

Luca and her mum

We got met by our host family at the train station. The girl's name was Luca and she was thirteen although she was in our year. She wasn't competing in NESDA, but she was a timekeeper. We got brought back to their house and shown to our bedroom which was cute. They also had an ADORABLE dog called Piva (means beer in Russian). 

Off to NESDA!

Okay, I know that I've skipped out a whole holiday (the one to England) and although it was AMAZING and all, I just don't have easily accessible photos unless I just steal them off Mommy's blog. And so I'm going to fast forward and try to start from now, I have a working camera. (Thank god) 

So......a while back, I got auditioned to be on the NESDA team. NESDA stands for New European Speech Debate and Acting Association and basically it's a competition for well, speech, debate and acting (and a few other things) 

During the trip to England (which you can read about on Mommy's blog eventually) I wrote my speech for my disciplines. More about that later...
So, last Thursday we set off on the train to Brussels after weeks of preperation for the NESDA tournament, being held at ISB (International School of Brussels).

Abbi and Tari

We were very lucky to get seats on the extra full train from HS to Brussels. I was also very lucky that one of my good friends got on the trip too, so we stuck together. 

Amelia on the 4th train of the day (we got off at the wrong station in Brussels so had to take a Belgian train to the right one!)

5th Place!

After a full day of playing hard, we played our final game for fifth place. And we won! Which I think is pretty impressive, because we were an all girls team. Ashlynn's team came second in the under 12's and they won the spirt of the game award. 

 Here are a few more pictures from the games....

I love this photo. It's just so amazing, with the rain.....big hug :)

Throws.....

We were very lucky with the weather, rain was predicted, but it only started sprinkling in the last few games. And the wind wasn't too bad, but when it started picking up, the long throws to Amelia, began to not go to her, so we started doing some shorter throws. 

Amelia

Where are the defenders in this photo?? :) Ziyoda and Adelina

Reach Lizzy!

Awesome Catches......

Here are some photos from the Outdoor Frisbee tournament. These are some epic catches: 

Adelina catching in the end zone. 

Lizzy

Amelia

One of our main strategies, if we were getting thrown the disc, was I pick it up and Amelia runs to the end zone, one long throw later and we have a point! We used this strategy multiple times. 

Lizzy

Nora

Amelia in the end zone.

The Lionesses!

Frisbee time again. 9.10.11. (For all you American's out there, that means the ninth of October, in the year 2011) This year, because David and Dominic were too old to compete in the under fifteens, Mr. Lowe put in two teams, the BSN Lions (with Andrew, Joel, Brennan, Patrick and Luke) and the Lionesses, the BSN's first ever all girl's Frisbee team! And, to make it even better, they were all my friends! Ashlynn was competing as well in the under 12. 

Making our T-Shirts

Lionesses, Raar!  

From L-R: Ellie, Ziyoda, Amelia, Nora, Lizzy, Adelina, Veronica

Fun on the boat?

Me, asleep on the boat, getting sunburnt from the non existant sun (or rather the sun that was behind the clouds the whole day) :(

Ashlynn driving the boat