Mo and I met after our test at 12, and upon arriving to the train station, we realized that the train was leaving in 5 minutes: the train was leaving 20 minutes early. We ran around and somehow managed to get on the train, it was about six hours in total of travel time, with the train and walking to the beach. (Viareggio is near Cinque Terra, just a little bit further.) When we got to the beach, we were so disheartened because we didn't see any frisbee players! After 15 minutes of picking a direction and walking, we finally saw frisbees in the air
. Mo went and stayed the night with her team, and I headed back to the camping grounds with the Milan women's team, who I was going to play with the next morning. We had arrived too late for any of the games on Saturday.Our Milanese Women's team (in red) met up with the Lago Como (Lake Como) Men's and Women's teams for dinner Saturday night. It was pretty cool, there were about 5 long tables put together, and 40 people eating spaghetti and drinking sambuca. For the most part they spoke Italian all night and I tried to listen, but I gave up soon after. They just spoke English to me.
The tournament is called the Burla Beach Cup, and every year there is a theme. This year's was zombies. The party Saturday night was kind of lame...but the costumes were really cool and scary. Everyone walking down this one strip by the beach looked like they had been murdered horrendously. I was also told that the street we were walking down was notorious for its gay clubs. Viareggio houses a large community of gays, and it was very obvious after they told me. I didn't think that the Italians were so open at first, but after three weeks, my views had been changed.
Sunday morning we only had two games, but it
was beautiful. We played lodged between a set of mountains, and the Ligurian Sea. In Italy, there aren't that many women's teams, so our team had played most games against lower open teams thursday and friday. They only won one game those two days. Sunday we won the first game against a Denmark Women's team, 11 - 4, but lost the second to the Bologna Women's team that we had beat yesterday when I wasn't there. But we ended up getting the spirit award! :) This is a picture of me and Vale (Valentina); she's really friendly, chain smokes like everyone else in Italy, and she teaches me swears.
The Denmark team was really nice, they had brought pins and candy to share from their country. I like how ultimate tournaments in Europe are so worldly, I mean it makes sense since all the countries are so close. I just wish that there were a bigger ultimate scene in Italy.I was able to catch a ride back with Ale Sunday after the finals (Bologna won against seXXXpensive, but seXXXpensive wins when it comes to better jerseys). It took over three hours, and I slept most of the way.
Below, Mauricio from the Milan team is playing with the Bologna (red and blue) team for the tournament. One of the few ultimate people I remember the name of.... then there's the jersey of seXXXpensive, and some sick grabs.
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