{"id":5395,"date":"2013-09-30T16:46:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T16:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/julie-forster-blog-spot-2-starting-the-season-seeing-the-sights\/"},"modified":"2013-09-30T16:46:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T16:46:16","slug":"julie-forster-blog-spot-2-starting-the-season-seeing-the-sights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/julie-forster-blog-spot-2-starting-the-season-seeing-the-sights\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Forster Blog Spot #2: Starting the Season, Seeing the Sights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Julie Forster Blog Spot #2: Starting the Season, Seeing the Sights<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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COPENHAGEN \u2013<\/strong> Former Great Dane standout Julie Forster is playing for Stevnsgade BBK in Denmark in her first professional season.\u00a0 She is keeping track of her time overseas with a blog, and she checks in with UAlbany about the start of the season, checking out some places in Europe and an interesting amusement park ride.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been in Denmark for a month-and-a-half, and am very much enjoying my time here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, I\u2019ve been participating in volunteer work with the local elementary schools.\u00a0 I volunteer three times a week and am helping the students prepare for the interschool basketball tournament they have coming up.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also been enjoying my coaching responsibilities.\u00a0 I coach a U10 and U14 girls team and also help out with the U12 team.\u00a0 Although there is still a communication barrier, I\u2019ve learned some important Danish basketball terms and the girls have gotten better at their visual learning.\u00a0 It\u2019s rewarding to be able to share my love of basketball with the girls and watch them grow as players.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had the opportunity to visit a few different parts of Sweden for basketball games in the past few weeks.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what the occasion was, but one of the places we went had an old American car parade. \u00a0There were hundreds of Swedish people driving these old American cars around playing American music and waving American flags.\u00a0 It was quite a sight!<\/span><\/p>\n

I also was able to go to Tivoli Amusement park, the second oldest amusement park in the world and one of the more famous attractions in Copenhagen.\u00a0 Tivoli is home to one of the oldest wooden roller coasters still in use.\u00a0 It even had a brake man onboard to control the speed of the roller coaster around the corners.\u00a0 Thankfully, I didn\u2019t know his importance until after we finished or I might not have enjoyed the ride as much.\u00a0 I also was able to go on one of the world\u2019s tallest carousels and the view of Copenhagen was absolutely amazing.<\/span><\/p>\n

We had our first league game yesterday and won.\u00a0 Some of the main differences here are that the games are played in ten-minute quarters, only coaches can call timeouts and the three-point line is a little further back.\u00a0 I also really miss the frequent media timeouts.\u00a0 In addition, the games tend to be higher scoring because the shot clock is only 24 seconds.\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019ve been traveling a lot for our preseason contests and it was nice to play on our home court and actually have some fans in the stands.\u00a0 It was especially touching to see a lot of the girls I coach in attendance.\u00a0 Our next game is away and I look forward to seeing another part of Denmark.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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