Week one

This first week started out pretty tough, it was hard to leave everyone again, but I'm thoroughly enjoying myself now. I'm living just a couple miles southwest of Innsbruck in a small ski village called Götzens (pronounced Goot-zen). I compare it a lot to that of Winter Park, Colorado. We have very convenient access to a small grocery store, post office, my bank, the pharmacy, a bakery, and Taverna Da Guzzi, an amazing Italian food restaurant. Every day I wake up and look out my window at huge snow capped mountains. In the morning I head to the bus stop, passing by countless skiers headed up to the slopes behind my house. It's all I can do to keep myself from walking the 200 meters up to the lift and carving my way down the mountain. If you took a panoramic picture from my roof, you'd see about 5 different ski resorts. I wake up to a small layer of fresh snow about every other day. For the first time in my life I live in the mountains and the scenery and views will never get old. I'm getting very efficient with public transportation as well. As you may know we do not have a car this season so it allows me to have the "experience" of using the buses and taxis. I will admit though that it is very easy to use and actually quite nice, I just pop my headphones in and take a scenic tour to the gym.







My house is a sweet little 4 bedroom cabin with 7 beds. We have two bathrooms and a back patio that will be clutch in the summer time. We have a nice little fire place and a pretty efficient but small kitchen area.



As far as the football goes, we've had 3 practices, two were in rain, the other was in a gym. The intensity is definitely there and this team has shown me why they are the best in Europe. There is some major talent from the Austrian guys that will really take a lot of pressure off the imports. Our Runningback was in several NFL Europe camps and our starting DE played for one of the many German based teams in NFLE. The other imports and my roommates are Alexander Hoad, a DB from Ottawa University in Canada and Nick Comly from Acadia University in Canada. Alex played last season in the AFL2 for Quad City Steamwheelers and Nick has played in the past for the Belgrade Blue Dragons in Serbia and for the Lazio Marines in Rome, Italy.