Counting down the days!!!

Welcome to Northern State Volleyball Blog. In anticipation to our long awaited team trip to Brazil, we decided to start our own blog. We are now three days away from leaving for Brazil. The last several months have been full of preparations: fundraising, filling out paperwork, MORE fundrasing, getting our passports and visas done, gathering donation items to take with us, and exchanging thousands of e-mails with our trip coordinator in Brazil. We now have one more fundraising activity - car wash :) - and one more practice before we leave. We will be in Sao Paulo for 8 days and Rio de Janeiro for 3 days and play a total of 6 matches. We will also get to do a lot of sightseeing and of course go to the beach which we are super excited about after having a long and cold winter. We are trying to talk our Asst. Coach Murley into wearing a speedo as most men in Brazil wear speedo to go to the beach but it is not going so well :) If we end up convincing him to wear a speedo, we will make sure we take pictures.

It is winter in Brazil right now and they told us it is getting cold but we keeping checking the temperature and it gets up to 72 - 80 every day. I guess they haven't been to South Dakota in the winter :) We also have been learning about the Brazilian culture with our Asst. Coach Ligia since she is from Brazil. Now, we are all ready to experience Brazil firshand. We hope you can join us on our adventure and enjoy our stories as we will be posting them daily over the next couple weeks.