Poem..

For the sake of the snake,

Or the fish of the lakes.

We should act!

It is a fact,

That all responsibility lies on our backs.

And the conciousness that mankind lacks,

Making them the snacks, that we have,

Is not right.

Should we fight, through the barking nights

Or just wait for hope.

No!

We should be the ones already passing the helping rope...

Basketball

Yesterday was the basketball day! So far, I have participated every time when we have had our trainings.
We have started to play games on half court which allows every team to play continuously without having a ten minute break. In my opinion it's better like that, because everyone is provided with more technical practice than full court games would offer. Half court games aren't as tirying as full court games, which allows every player to concentrate more on the techniques.

I have done a significant improvement on my playing, although yesterday was not one of the best days on the court. I have started to have a better understanding of the game play,  how to act on defense or at attack, however I want to improve more. My goals for the future basketball practices is trying to coordinate myself to available positions nad practicing more and more my scoring skills generally.

Gutter Cleansing

Last weekend I went to Finland to visit my father as he had his birthday on monday.

As my father lives in a terraced house, there are some chores that must be done by every one who live in the appartments. This weekend was our turn to clean up the gutters of the roof. At first me, my father and our neighbour thought that the task will be easy and we could've just place a ladder on the side of the walls and simply use a special brush for gutters to clean all the dropped leaves. However, our expectations turned wrong. At some places the distance between the ground and the roof was too high (4-5 m) for our too short ladder and our gutter was too complex for using the brush anyway, so I was required to climb up on the roof, put on a safety harness and slowly crawl down the slightly sloping rooftop. At the same time, our dear nabour was adjustig the length of the safety rope.

(Not a pic by me and not our gutter)
However, this is the kind of brush we tryed to use.

After cleaning and washing the gutters, it was time to get down from the roof and go home to take a warm shower. The whole process took around one and a half hour.

The task provided me a totally new experience in an unusual environment, but the best part is that I actually enjoyed it. Not a typical father and son activity but an interesting one though.When you add some humour to anything what you do, you can always have fun. I'd do the same chores next year again.

GYM, Week 1

This week, I officially started my gym regime! On Tuesday right after lunch break had started, me and Francesco rushed up to the gym and got ready for the tough week. 

After Peter arrived, we started our work out. On the first day, we were concentrating on leg muscles, though we didn't manage to complete all the work outs for legs because starting up took plenty of time.

On Wednesday we were doing work outs intended for shoulders. Some of the weight lifting methods turned out hard but we managed to overcome the difficulties and had a pretty nice work out!

The last but certainly not the least work out of the week took place on Thursday when we were training our chest muscles. In my opinion that work out was the most fun of all the previously mentioned. 

Thanks to Peter, I have now a much clearer idea of what i should be doing on the gym and how should i do the wok outs properly. However I still need to practice in order to form the correct flow for my working out.
The target for next week is to try to use up the one hour we have more effectively. We should start working out immediately after arriving to the gym and keep up a quick tempo. And most importantly I will try to leave at least few minutes for stretching especially after the leg training!

GYM

Last week me and Francesco decided to start going to the school gym regularly. After few times though, we discovered that it was much harder than we thought because of the fact that neither both of us didn't know what to do in what order and how much should we do. I was lifting the weights and hitting the boxing sack but still I didn't feel like doing much 'working out'... 

Me and Francesco decided to ask help from Peter and he was more than willing to help us. On Friday Peter was spending his lunch break showing me and Francesco some methods for gaining muscle. These methods seemed very useful though we didn't have much time for actual working out but still we got the basic idea of how we should be spending time on the gym and how should we be managing our working out through out the week. 

Next week we will start serious working out for three times a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) with the guidance of Peter. 

Our goal is to gain muscle and later on we will start getting rid of the fat.