Summer

Now it’s the fall but I still miss the summer. I spent most of my summer playing basketball for my national team (Ukraine). My summer started as soon as I finished school in the middle of May. I went to Ukraine and spent couple weeks with my family and friends. It was great seeing them again after only being able talk to them through skype. For about two weeks I was just visiting my uncles, aunties, grandfathers and rest of the family. Then I had to go join my national team at the camp for preparation for European Championship. We had a pretty fun program. We practiced twice a day for about a week then we went to play a tournament in Ankara, Turkey. In that tournament also participated Russia, Turkey, France, Poland, Croatia and of course us. After that we went back to Ukraine. We had couple days off so I was able to hang out with my family again. Then we had a mini tournament in Kiev. We played 3 games against Belarus team. My parents were able to watch me play after for the first time in three years. They were really excited and I was nervous a little bit, because I wanted to do so well. The games went really well, we won all of them. After the tournament we went to Croatia where had a European Championship U-20 there. Tournament started really well for us. We won first 4 out of 5 games. Then we had couple of tough losses but ended up getting a 8^th place. After the last game in the morning a had to go back to United States and start summer school two. I took one class and was working out with my strength coach till the fall. It was a great summer and I cant wait to go back home again.