Opening Day
Greetings from the Equator. Life is good. I got an email from my one of my best friends on the planet and he got into Vet School. Ally and my sisters have all gotten into fantastic Law Schools. My sister said it´s snowing in New York and today the weather is 75 degrees and sunny in Ibarra. Plus, as mentioned earlier, I have only 8 more classes to teach for the rest of my lifetime, as my program recently asked me to be one of its directors. Yes that´s correct Damas and Gents, the EcuadorTraveler is moving to Quito in about two weeks to run an international non-profit organization. An added bonus is that my monthly salary will increase from 500 percent from 200 bucks to almost 1000. I wonder what the Ecuadorian equivalent of DisneyLand is because I should definitely go.
Q: Wow Kane. That´s all great news. So what have you been doing in your free time?
A: Worrying about graduate school and frantically reviewing all of the math I ever learned.
Q: Heck of a way to celebrate good news. You are a complete loser. I mean isn´t there anything fun you have been up to?
A: (Slight grin. Slowly widens). Well now that you mention it.....Have you ever heard of the basketball team ¨Las Estrellas?¨
Q: ?
A: Allow me to explain:
Last night was the kick off game to the ¨winter¨club basketball tournaments in Ecuador. Las Estrellas is a team from San Antonio in the province of Imbabura. Here is their starting line-up:
Small Old Guy: Decent skills, but tires quickly. Backsweat rating about a 570000 out of 100.
Young Guy: Runs well and plays an up tempo style. For some reason feels the need to chuck the basketball sixty feet after every rebound in an effort to start a fastbreak. However Young Guy has a worse sense of who is on his team than Brett Favre from last year. Sure he´ll throw a couple bombs that might create one or two opportunities a game, but that doesn´t nearly make up for the fact that the other team is getting a free possession almost 75% of the time ¨El Hurler the Ball-o into Oblivion-o¨strikes after a rebound. Also has zero clue how to box out.
Peter: African-Ecuadorian who can jump out of the gym. Unreal athlete. SouthPaw. Easily frustrated and complains a lot.
Good Buddy from San Antonio: Great athlete who loves running. Vehemently hated GM for signing Foreigners.
White Dude: (Me). Large, large man.
We also have another white guy on our team who is one of those gazelle type athletes. Thus we are basically an unstoppable juggernaut and last night we had our first game. Here´s the rundown:
6:45: White guys show up at the gym for the 7:00 game, as white people show up early to sporting events to warm up. However, no Ecuadorian is in sight.
7:00: The rest of the Estrellas team shows up ready to play. Other team is no where to be found.
7:05: The members of Team Las Estrellas plays a pick up game of 3 on 3. Other team nowhere to be found.
7:20: 3 on 3 finishes. Other team still not in the gym. Las Estrellas plays another game of 3 on 3.
7:45: Other team shows up. 3 on 3 game 2 finishes.
8:00: Game starts.
9:30: Other teams loses. By a lot.
We got our second round game tonight. I will try to post un update tomorrow about the finer points of Ecuadorian basketball.
Hope everyone is well and congrats again to all who are receiving good news.
-KaneTrain
Q: Wow Kane. That´s all great news. So what have you been doing in your free time?
A: Worrying about graduate school and frantically reviewing all of the math I ever learned.
Q: Heck of a way to celebrate good news. You are a complete loser. I mean isn´t there anything fun you have been up to?
A: (Slight grin. Slowly widens). Well now that you mention it.....Have you ever heard of the basketball team ¨Las Estrellas?¨
Q: ?
A: Allow me to explain:
Last night was the kick off game to the ¨winter¨club basketball tournaments in Ecuador. Las Estrellas is a team from San Antonio in the province of Imbabura. Here is their starting line-up:
Small Old Guy: Decent skills, but tires quickly. Backsweat rating about a 570000 out of 100.
Young Guy: Runs well and plays an up tempo style. For some reason feels the need to chuck the basketball sixty feet after every rebound in an effort to start a fastbreak. However Young Guy has a worse sense of who is on his team than Brett Favre from last year. Sure he´ll throw a couple bombs that might create one or two opportunities a game, but that doesn´t nearly make up for the fact that the other team is getting a free possession almost 75% of the time ¨El Hurler the Ball-o into Oblivion-o¨strikes after a rebound. Also has zero clue how to box out.
Peter: African-Ecuadorian who can jump out of the gym. Unreal athlete. SouthPaw. Easily frustrated and complains a lot.
Good Buddy from San Antonio: Great athlete who loves running. Vehemently hated GM for signing Foreigners.
White Dude: (Me). Large, large man.
We also have another white guy on our team who is one of those gazelle type athletes. Thus we are basically an unstoppable juggernaut and last night we had our first game. Here´s the rundown:
6:45: White guys show up at the gym for the 7:00 game, as white people show up early to sporting events to warm up. However, no Ecuadorian is in sight.
7:00: The rest of the Estrellas team shows up ready to play. Other team is no where to be found.
7:05: The members of Team Las Estrellas plays a pick up game of 3 on 3. Other team nowhere to be found.
7:20: 3 on 3 finishes. Other team still not in the gym. Las Estrellas plays another game of 3 on 3.
7:45: Other team shows up. 3 on 3 game 2 finishes.
8:00: Game starts.
9:30: Other teams loses. By a lot.
We got our second round game tonight. I will try to post un update tomorrow about the finer points of Ecuadorian basketball.
Hope everyone is well and congrats again to all who are receiving good news.
-KaneTrain
posted by ecuadortraveler at 9:55 AM
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White Dude Me is simply the only white dude in Ecuador: Me.
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