1 month down.....

This month has gone by so quickly and I really don't feel like I've seen a whole lot. Since my last update we've had 6 more games. We played a team out of Herrenberg, which was a 2 1/2 hour drive, in a mini-cooper, with my legs nearly at my chin the whole way....I was not a happy camper (I have to remember to call shotgun so I don't get stuck in the back). Anyway, we ended up splitting with them. Lost the 1st game and won the 2nd. I'm only allowed to pitch in the 2nd game. I broke a girl's nose, on accident. She went to bunt an inside pitch and she fouled it off into her face. I have never received so many terrible looks from a crowd or a coach. Then I hit a line drive into the pitcher's stomach and she was pulled from the game.....they don't like me much there.

We then had a 4 game weekend this past weekend versus Freising and Darmstadt. We split with Freising winning the 2nd game and beat Darmstadt both games. I hit my first homerun against Freising...YAY! I am leading the league in strikeouts and ERA. We start our schedule over next weekend.

When I'm not at the field, which is nearly every evening except for Wednesday, I have managed to see a couple of pretty cool things. Mandy, the other American and I, made our way to Neuschwanstein, a castle and to a church called the Weis Church. The caslte was amazing! It only had a few of the rooms completed because the king was crazy and died before it was done.

The church was the most ornate church I've ever seen. I can't really explain it. It was literally in the middle of nowhere and took forever to get there. There was no town or village near it...but it was very popular. The scenery reminded me of something right out of The Sound of Music. BEAUTIFUL!

My plan for the rest of the month is to make it to Prague, Rome, Austria, and the Netherlands (we have a two week break coming up and I am ready to travel).

Hope all is well in the States...