Frisbee gatherings (part 1)

It has been now a week since I made my last post, and a lot has happened since then. I don't want to limit myself to a short post, and I dislike writing really long posts, so I will just continue to write retrospective posts. This one will be about last Thursday to whenever I want to stop.

My frisbee team in Greifswald is wonderful! At the beginning of the year, I was really wary of helping start one, but am so glad that Steffi pushed for it. Last Thursday (June 19th), we had our typical thursday practice, and at practice, we were trying to figure out where to watch the Germany quarter final game:
Daniel: We could go to Marktplatz
Ali and myself: No! It is too crowded there, we don't like the smoke, I can't because of my shoulder, etc.
Daniel: Ok, how about my place (which sounded like he said Marktplatz again).
Ali and myself: NO! We said no already, it is too far, etc..
Daniel: wow, ok, don't know why my place is so bad, it is close.
Ali and myself: wait, you said YOUR place? We thought you said Marktplatz again.
(note that Ali and I were not talking in stereo).

So after practice, 6 of us headed over to Daniel's. Well, actually 3 of us headed to the Real to buy dinner stuff, and the other three went to Daniel's. At Real was Sandra, Ali, and me, and of course had a blast buying food for everyone. Back at Dan's was him, Steffi, and Martin. We got there a little late, but then sat down to watch Germany beat Portugal in a 3-1 victory (and I missed Michael Ballack's goal (again!)). The food was delicious, the drinks flowing, and the camaraderie fantastic.

The next thing that we did together was on Saturday. I had originally planned for my going away party to be that day, cause it is the longest day of the year (normally, but this year it was actually Friday, oh well). But then after finding out that they wanted to take me out on Tuesday, we (I) made it our official Summer Solstice party, and then it can be a tradition every year.

After not packing during the day, I headed out to meet up everyone at the beach. I got there a bit late, but not the last to arrive. After waiting for Martin (who had told us a number of times that he would be late), we headed into the beach. But because Dan had a bottle of beer on the side of his bag, they told us that glass bottles weren't allowed on that day. We all had some thing in our bags that was made of glass, so we headed back out to drink some of the beer, at the salad Christian made, and when Martin did show up, we decided to have our bbq outside as well, then played stubby guts outside. Sandra and his friend found us outside, and we just had a great time out there, and it was probably less crowded, even though we ended up surrounded by bikes or the road. After we had finished eating, and Steffi and Flo left, we finally went into the beach. Some great things about Saturday's gathering:

• realizing that Lutz has a seat built into his back pack
• only having two Frisbees among 8 or 9 Frisbee players, but them being enough
• having someone random play stubby guts with us
• watching the sunset around 11pm at night
• meeting up with a bunch of people at the beach after losing them