Some Highlights

Here are some highlights from our last league from the first half of the season:

Archived Quote - Yeahsayer

I'm so blessed to pass the good time
With my family and the friends I love
In my short life I have met
So many people I deeply care for.

Yeahsayer, Red Cave

Some love from the homefront

California

You know that point in your life when you realize that the house you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore… and that idea of home is gone… it just sort of happens one day and it's just gone. And you can never get it back. It's like you get homesick for a place that doesn't exist. I don't know maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start. It's like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it.... -Andrew, "Garden State"

In the words of a college roommate, I am fricken excited to be headed back to California. But at the same time, there's a bit of reservation in my excitement. After being away from the States for so long, I have noticed a shift in my thinking. This feeling first started after I moved to the east coast for high school and college. It was a feeling that home is not some far off place. Instead it is where I am - here and now. And I don't just mean Neustrelitz/Berlin, Germany, or Europe. I mean that I can be comfortable wherever I am standing.

However, this does not change the fact that so many people I love and care about are over 5,000 miles away from me right now. Well, for the next few weeks that will change and my home will be California with my family and friends. See you all very soon.

TSG Junges

They are all stoked because they just got some Christmas chocolate.

Archived Quote - Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
black as the pit from pole to pole,
i thank whatever god may be
for my unconquerable soul.

in the fell clutch of circumstance
i have not winced nor cried aloud.
under the bludgeoning of chance
my head is bloody, but unbowed

beyond this place of wrath and tears
looms but the horror of the shade;
and yet the menace of the years
finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

it matters not how strait the gait,
how charged with punishments the scroll,
i am the master of my fate;
i am the captain of my soul.

Invictus, William Ernest Henley

Schnee

Our league match was delayed due to the weather. So we had a friendly against Hertha Berlin's 2nd team instead.