As we write this, the team is preparing for its final friendly match at 9pm tonight, approximately 2 hours from the hotel. Class was held after breakfast and for those veterans of the Europe tours with the men's soccer program, you will remember the Bear Bucks Auction! Quiz 5 challenged the students to demonstrate their proficiency in art and 20th century Spanish history and cultural politics.
We also discussed yesterday's bus presentations by Korey Caster on Camp Nou, Demitri Kastrinakis on the insane genius of Salvador Dali, Ryan Dunnigan on the youth development system of the USA and Spain, Keven Cassidy on Gaudi and Modernism and Dalton Lewandowski on Spain's wheel sports industry. We are all looking forward to our final presentation by Chad Burke who will be summarizing his research on Picasso.
By the way, as we moved into our final round of quizzes the coaches and players are running nose to nose! We wanted to share with you some thoughts from the players about the things they missed about the comforts of home. Here's the top twelve comforts we miss the most: our own beds, working air conditioning, the freedom of driving our own car, a washer and dryer- for clean clothes, consistent internet access, the gym, free and available cold water, home cooking, grass soccer fields, American TV, Gatorade, and American food.
Because we leave so early tomorrow morning for the airport and are not certain of internet access, let us sign off now. We can't wait to see you all when we touch ground back in the good ole USA.
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