Basketball Game

The day after Laia‘s and Emily‘s arrival we all got invited to a Basketball game by the school’s psychologist Ramūnas. You know, Basketball is a huge thing here in Lithuania. At home, like I guess in most of other countries, Football is THE sport to play and watch (though we Austrians are pretty bad at it). You can find a football field at every sports place and each child owns a football and is already way better at playing with it than I’ll ever be. Here it’s the same thing with Basketball. And again, I keep losing against the children and youths.

So of course watching a game is also a fun thing to do. The children and youths of the dormitory do so about once a month and this time we could come along. I didn’t really have a clue about the rules or the structure of a professional Basketball match but it was nevertheless nice to be there. I’m not really much into any kind of sport but I like the mood when you’re watching some sports event with other people who are into it. I like the cheering and all the positive energy, it’s kind of exciting even if you don’t really care about the result. And also this time I enjoyed to see how excited the children and youths were about this special activity.

Well, the competing teams were of course the one from Panevėžys and the other one was from Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-biggest city (and somebody told me that they were the best team in the league at that moment – but I learned whether that’s true depends on who you ask about it). Before the professional game there was a game between each team’s veterans which was a really funny thing to witness, all those elderly men playing Basketball against each other. I think that game was won by Panevėžys. Afterwards the professional game finally started. As I said, I don’t really have a clue about that game, but I could still tell that Kaunas – whether they were the best or not – is definitely better than Panevėžys. Nevertheless it was exciting to watch the game and cheer with the children and youths for “our team”. 

 

In the end, after two consecutive games, it had gotten pretty late and you could tell that not only we were tired. It was an interesting thing to experience and definitely and exciting evening. But maybe the next time one game is enough to watch for all of us ;)

Viso gero,

Monika