Thursday, July 5, 2007
Death of a Cell Phone
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Brantrock
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Its Been a While
For many reasons but mostly due to the breakdown of my laptop the blog suffered some neglect. Fortunately I have been enjoying life here in New England to the fullest. Everything from carpentry to fishing, fitting in with my host family has certainly been enjoyable. Keith , the 16 year old son, is like the brother I never had and we have had many adventures in my few months here. Notably we have been fishing a lot recently and are catching many a bass. We have even tried or luck with catfish late at night and have managed to pull out a few. When we are not casting lines we have been making music, creating film projects, and building a recording studio desk. The pool in the back yard has also been enjoyed along with the pools new neighbor, the hot tub. So far the streak has continued for more than a month with at least one person enjoying the warm bubbliness everyday since its delivery.
I haven' t been hogging all the fun though. I have had several visitors up here including my parents and sister, Zack and Anna Bryant, and of course the lovely Ms. Brennan. All are welcome and I hope to have as many of you visit when possible, the door is always open.
Soccer... well its going alright. Last week I scored my 2nd and 3rd goals in our 3-3 tie against Columbus and tonight I added another to my assist pot feeding Andy Dorman for the nail in the coffin goal in our 3-0 victory over Toronto. We head to LA to play Chivas later in the week.
I am really excited to get back to blogging and sharing all the events and adventures going on. Through some of my ideas out there, projects, and general fun on goings. Plus I figured how to add some pictures to the lot and hopefully will keep it all current.
Until then...
Friday, March 9, 2007
Revs and Cancun
Buenos Dias,
Another tale from my travels… right now I am in
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
U-22 Japan Game
Hope all is well. The past couple days of have been great. Very low key and a lot of hanging out around the hotel in preparation for our game. We went yesterday to the stadium that we played in today. The stadium is very nice.. looks great from the outside and seats just over 30,000... we trained for only an hour, did some shooting and final preparations. Today we took it easy most of the day, resting and eating to prepare for the game. We played at 7pm, the stadium and atmosphere was great. I started the match, and played 70 minutes... the first half was a little shakey for everyone.. trying to settle into the tempo and get a touch on the ball. I struggled a little to hold the ball up and get dangerous. The second half was better i held the ball up and set two guys up for shots.. I didnt get any shot opportunities but we did very well as a team and had them on their heals for a good 20 minutes. We ended in a tie 0-0... the game was fairly even. I think they had the better of the chances, they hit the cross-bar and post in the second half. Both scary moments but we held strong and all ended well. The coaches were very pleased with the performance and happy with the way the team is coming together. The Japanese team has been together for much longer and they are preparing for qualifying very soon so it was good that after our first camp together that we are making progress rather quickly. The attendance for the game was 15,000, and it was really fun playing in that environment. We have a lighter day of training tomorrow and then play a game against the local J-league team who is in the second division but trying to move up to the first soon. Should be another great experience in a packed stadium. Until then...
Saturday, February 17, 2007
From Japan
We arrived at the hotel about 1230am last night, it had just turned Sunday. Now it is 1130am and we have had breakfast and are now relaxing in the room. Lunch is soon and then a nap, training at 4 and then back to the hotel for dinner.
Traveling was not terrible, certainly long, about 22 hours door to door from our Hotel in LA. 2 flights and a bus ride and we got here with no problems. The town is nice, reminds me of Valencia with the style of the buildings and layout, only there is Japanese writing on everything. The airplane from Tokyo to Kumamoto had a very cool feature. There was a camara anchored under the base of the nose of the plane and we could see everything in front of us on take off and landing, and during flight... it was neat. The hotel is very high-tech lots and gadgets and conveniences, heated toilet seat, bedside control for all the lights in the room and full size beds that are a little too firm but still nice. We have a TV that plays cnn in english... unfortunately all the discussion is on the Anna Nicole drama, or presidential candidates.
All in all things are great, I woke up feeling a little off, probably that circadian rhythm thing, but after waking up at 930 and maybe after an afternoon nap Ill feel almost on schedule. Our first game is on Wednesday so we still have three days to acclimate and train here. Looking forward to get out of the hotel maybe a little after training. Maybe some pictures to come soon.
Until then...
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Cross Country
The Bruins Hook-up
Monday, February 5, 2007
First day of training
After yesterdays short physical and tour of the facilities we began training this morning. Training was relatively light as we try to ease into the nine week long pre-season. After getting into the warm-up and running it felt as if we were already fitting in and feeling a part of the Revs. After the training all the new guys got some lunch and most of us retired to the hotel for a long nap before heading to a hibachi grill for dinner.
I was also delivered some exciting news today that I will be joining the U-23 national team for a trip to LA and then to Japan. I will leave this Saturday Feb 10 and return Feb 24. This means I will miss the trip to Bermuda with the Revs which I wish I could be a part of to grow closer with the team however I am extremely excited about the opportunity to join the national teams again. Hopefully this camp with the U-23's will help my situation and standing here with the Revs as well. More updates as the week progresses, but cmon what excitement so far.
Until then..
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Saturday, February 3, 2007
The New England Revolution
I hope everyone is well. Today was the start of my journey up here to New England. I was up at 6:30am and had breakfast with Zack and Evan at Einsteins Bagels. I left Richmond, VA at 7:45 and crused on up Interstate 95 for a little over 8 hours and arrived at a bone chilled Foxboro, MA. I checked in to the Holiday Inn Express, unpacked, and then relaxed after a long day. I was extremely happy with making the trip without any hold ups. My roommate Phil was the goalie from Clemson and we have settled in to our room quickly with about 20 bags total cluttering the free space in the room. We have a meeting in the morning over at the stadium so we can get physicals and maybe have a team meeting. After that the afternoon like most will be free time for relaxing, reading, playing guitar, or exploring the area. I am extremely excited to get into the system and get into the training with the guys. This blog will be a continued outlet to share my days and communicate with everyone. Until then...