As I left off last week, I had just arrived in Harrisburg. The trial was over two days, indoors thankfully as temperatures were cold and it was windy. Over the course of the two days I felt like I performed very well, displaying most of the qualities in my play that I could. But once again there was a missing piece and I wasn’t invited for pre season, however I did get some valuable feedback from the head coach. On Tuesday, I took the train from Harrisburg to Philadelphia where I was met by my Aunt Anne. Anne, her partner Fred and I had a lovely meal and caught up, after only a short couple weeks since I was last in Philadelphia.

 

Wednesday I was able to rest and recover a little bit after the busy few days of travel and trials, and just have a bit of down time to reflect on things and really question my intentions about what I want to achieve. Thursday I went for a run along the Delaware river and it was nice to get out of the house. I also began to re make my video and edit my Football/Soccer CV in an effort to search for new opportunities, so that was taking a lot of time in my days. I had to cut through many hours of games and get clips from various games from this season and last. It was a tedious task, but it needed to be done in order for me to be seen by coaches and teams for new opportunities. This is the final product https://youtu.be/7cXtnit-HaQ

On Friday, Anne and I had a lovely dinner before we headed to the Merriam Theatre to watch a Brazilian performance of music and dance. It traced through different phases of their developing culture and reflected on the various influences that had an impact on them. It was quite the performance! On Saturday, we headed to the gym where I was able to get a good work out in, and Anne was able to continue to do her rehab and balance work. Never thought the day would come that we would go to a gym together!! In the afternoon, we headed up to Fred’s place. He was recently completed building an incredible mansion on the river north of Philadelphia. I saw it last when he was still building, so seeing it complete was quite incredible. He has yet to fully move things into it. We had a lovely meal and watched a great film, Meet Joe Black!

Sunday morning I picked up South Street Philly Bagels for breakfast, before Anne dropped me off just passed the Museum where the statue of Rocky is on the steps, and I walked along the river before I found a nice spot to read my book in the sun. The weather has been unseasonably warm, with Sundays temperature near 20 degrees celsius.