Today, I will write about the 10th of October, 2009. I got up at 10 o’clock because I went to sleep at round about 1 o’clock, so I decided to sleep a lot like 9 hours. First of all, I congratulated my brother because it was his birthday. Fortunately, the table has already set, but if it weren’t been like that, I would have helped, but I hadn’t to do that. After that, I ate some buns; once with sesame and a normal one without anything on it. What did I put on the buns? If I am right, I ate cheese, ground pork with onions and some cheese again. When I finished eating, I went in my room, watched some news where I experienced that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize and played some Tetris DS. Actually, I quitted that game for long, but after playing with a good friend two weeks ago, at least, I wanted to improve my current scores a bit. Till now, it didn’t work yet. I’m not worrying about because I have enough time to change that and probably, I will someday. To be honest, I’m not that good at this game how I always wanted to be, but said by the way, it was enough to win a medal on the 17th of November, 2007 in Frankfurt/Offenbach.
Some minutes or hours later (I’m not sure at what time), my little stepbrother asked me if I want to play some chess and I did so. He really improved by itself. Hats off! At the beginning, he played very well, but from time to time, he lost his skill more and more. Of course, I didn’t adress reproaches to him because he is young and it seems that he lost his concentration fast, faster than I did so I had a big advantage to win and I did so. But as I said, he really improved. After finishing that game of chess, we played chequers. I had the red draughtsmen and my little stepbrother the white ones. As it was before, he didn’t has concentration anymore so I was able to play a perfect match. I wasn’t proud of it because he is younger and hadn’t looked very concentrated anymore. The father of my stepbrother – so my father-in-law – asked me this time of playing against him. I thought “why not?” (of course, in German, so “warum nicht?”) and we could begin to play chequers. I knew that he is much stronger than his son, particularly, he could win against my mother (I didn’t knew that he was able to win against her) and in my opinion, she’s good and was beating me in my young days (yes, I’m not old, just 19, I know :P). Well, now I will come back to the chequers match that I played against my father-in-law and as I supposed, he was very attentive and good. I mustn’t do much mistakes, but unfortunately, I did some of it. I protected my draughtsmen very well and I was even able to get a draughts (if you come to the end of the chequer board), so I had a big advantage in comparision to him, but I couldn’t use it to my advantage. Because of that, he always had more draughtsmen than me. At the end, he had four draughts and I had two. We always changed our position, but we couldn’t play in a way to beat the opponent. After a long time of playing, we decided each other for a tie. It was a match with full of suspense and I’m looking forward to playing against him again, if I have the occasion. But to be honest, he was a bit better than me.
I went to the computer and wrote via MSN that I will watch football now (Germany vs. Brazil, U-20 WM and Russia vs. Germany, WM qualification). I really hoped that Germany will win both of these matches, but it was a hard thing to manage. First, the match Brazil vs. Germany started at 4:30 pm (MET). Germany blocked the Brazilians very well and they didn’t really have any chance to shoot a goal. At the 73th minute, a player of Germany – Lewis Holtby – shot a goal by using his head. I was so happy, particularly, Germany lost four years ago against Brazil with 2:1. I just thought following one: “That could be the revanche. C’mon!” Unfortunately, 15 minutes later, Brazil shot the equalizer. At the end of the regular time, one player of Brazil, hit the bar! I was totally shocked, but fortunately, Germany could find the way in the extra time. In between, I had a look at the match Russia vs. Germany and Germany took the lead through Miroslav Klose who shot the goal. For now, Germany is a safe participant at the WM in South Africa next year. Finally, the regular time was over and the additional time as well. Germany will be a part of the WM. The U-20 team lost against Brazil with 2:1 again; therefore, they couldn’t obtain the semi-final. But you shouldn’t be annoying with them because they had to start the U-20 WM with a missing amount of 26 players.
Well, that was my day on the 10th of October, 2009.
Yours,
Phillipp H.