AJ's Basketball Team Takes Third

Munich International School JV Basketball - that's AJ with the pink headband

AJ's JV basketball team played in the end of year SCIS (Sports Council of International Schools) this past weekend. It was a great two days of basketball, five games for each team and lots of fun to watch. AJ's team took third place which is of course terrific. They squeaked into third place by scoring the winning basket with five seconds left in their last game. It was very exciting to watch!

Here is a great series of AJ scoring.

If you're wondering about the pink headband AJ is sporting. It was a Valentine's Day present to replace the gray one he had been wearing. He wears it for every game.

The tournament took place here at our school with seven teams visiting. This means that all those visiting kids needed a place to stay. Families at our school "house" them. The kids spend the night and we feed them dinner and breakfast and provide them with lunch. We had two great kids from the American International School in Vienna. Noah is an American who has lived all over the world and Sebastian is from Austria.

Sebastian, Noah & AJ

This was our fourth set of housers. We have really enjoyed housing different students. The kids have all been super and so polite and well mannered. Surprisingly the boys have been more social than the girls. It's fun learning about different places and families. It is also great to see our kids interacting with them and learning to be good hosts. Also? Apparently the movie "Anchorman" is a great connector among teens, they have watched that movie with all but one set of kids. Why didn't they watch it with them? They were too busy playing monopoly!

Friday night after the first day of play, three other families came to our house with their housers for pizza. This meant six adults (Steve was in the US and missed all the fun), nine basketball players and six siblings and friends. I really wish I had remembered to take a picture of all those different kids from different schools and different countries. I did remember to take a picture of the pizza damage. We ordered 19 pizzas and there were only two left over. Luckily our pizza place is a five minute walk from our house and we just sent four of the boys to pick up the pizzas! Such a fun night.