We're still here! I haven't blogged in about a month, but all is well. We're just really busy with work and school and sports.
Liesl's winter schedule has been a little crazy - she has basketball practices and games on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and some Saturdays; futsal games on Saturdays; softball camp on Sunday afternoons, and soccer practices on Monday and Wednesday. Oh, and ballet on Thursday. So there's been a lot of early/late dinners and driving.
On the bright side, her basketball team has been having a terrific season, and just this week received word that they'd been invited to the state championship tournament on March 3-5 in Redmont. They have an 11-2 record in the Portland Interscholastic League, which means they're in 3rd place in the city. Pretty amazing for a team full of girls who haven't played much basketball before! Two of the girls have played consistently, for club teams, but three of them haven't played since 3rd grade (including Liesl) and the rest have never played for an actual team. Liesl is playing point guard and has gotten steadily better at dribbling and passsing; her shooting could still use some work and her defense is as fierce as ever.
Everything else in Liesl-land seems good -- friends, school, health. She's been having a lot of fun creating /imitating TikTok dances and tricks with friends, and with using CapCut to make short movies. She has art as an elective during the second semester, which is really different and fun. For her geography elective, the first assignment is to memorize 100 countries and be able to identify them on a map (electronically). The first time she tried the practice test she scored 34%; today, after a couple hours of studying and retaking the test, she scored 100% in 3 minutes 50 seconds. (I tried the test: I scored 65% in 15 minutes.)
Basketball will wrap up after March 5th, and then we'll move into soccer season (first game is March 11th) and softball (April-June).
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