Ha! I've been absent for a while. I have a good reason though. To be honest, so many things from this week are worth writing about that I should definitely continue to make effort to write every day instead of waiting for the end of the week. Now it's just an overload of information and it will be difficult to document it all without forgetting something or not going into all the details.
I've joined a football team this week. It is not just any football team, it is a football team composed of guys from former Yugoslavia (and Laly). Most of us are from Bosnia so the team is called F.C. Bosna. It is great to be playing organized football again. I missed it and even though I've been playing some pick up football on Tuesdays, I haven't played organized football since I left America. We train twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays and we usually play on Sundays. Oh, man, it feels good to play again and it's good to meet new friends. It will take a while for me to mend with everyone but all the guys are great so it will be much easier than with guys who weren't from my country.
In order for me to get to the training, I have to cycle on the opposite side of town from where I work. The team practices in Clonsilla which means that after cycling twice a week to train plus 5 days a week to work, I am now cycling over 100 km a week! I have to say that I am in great shape and that after another month or two of cycling, training and playing, I'll be like a freak of nature! I feel like I'm taking everything the nature has to offer (wind, rain, hills) and just breaking it down like a bulldozer going through a brick wall. I feel great, probably the best I've felt in my life because of cycling and football. I think it helps the fact that I am cycling from necessity and for the passion of the sport. This is making me not give up and, on the contrary, it is making me work harder. It is making me work harder so I am in better shape, so I can play football better, so I can cycle faster, easier, so I am healthier.
Today is also the first time I ate "cevapi" in Ireland. I think it's been over 8 months since I last ate cevapi. Oh, man, it was good! And we topped it off with some cold beer on a warm sunny Irish day and it was like being back in Banja Luka. I can't wait to eat some cevapi again next week.
Finally, I am watching the documentary about the first moon landing on Discovery Science called "Moonwalk One". What an amazing documentary. It contains "lost" footage of the entire mission which is simply breathtaking. It is remarkable that we as humans made it to the moon and the effort that went into making this possible is even more remarkable. Thousands of engineers, scientists, technicians, secretaries, you name it, have worked together over almost a decade to allow our missions to the moon. If we could only spend as much money on this kind of research as we do on wars ...
If you have a chance, please read some info about the moon landings and the Apollo program. It is amazing. 'Till the next post!
