This weekend Mali Dim is headed to a beach ultimate tournament on Lake Balaton in Hungary. We'll have all of our studs there, and I think it will be our coming out party. Heretofore we have been a very fun and spirited team, always needing a few extra players. This weekend we might sneak up on some teams and walk away with a good result. Our best goal is to show improvement from last tournament to this one, and to keep improving from Saturday to Sunday. Tell me if I sound like coach Wicks.

We haven't played a tournament since May, so nobody has seen us in a while. The group has been training pretty well, and improving on a nice curve. I'm excited that we have more and more players who can bomb it deep, so I can cut nearly whenever I want. Should be fun this weekend! It is Dario's first tournament, and he is the growing star of Croatian ultimate. Hopefully I'll end up with a photo of him doing something sweet.

Also, it looks like we'll be joined by two visitors from the USA, Ilana and Stacie, both med students at University of San Francisco. They've been taking Zagreb by storm as part of a clinical HIV/AIDS study. This is their first ultimate tournament.

Here are some new pictures. Other than the first one nothing fancy, but Michelle and my folks have asked to see what daily life is like. More to come!

Here is the view from the island Rab, where I went with the frisbee group for a weekend of training and relaxation:


The owner and proprietor of my gym is also a former Yugoslav national bodybuilding champion:


This is one of the many cafes on Bukovacka, a street near my office. I sit here often:


Here is a little shop for buying this and that. It is around the corner from my office:


My co-teachers from Lingua Grupa, at our end of the year party. See if you can guess what they all have in common...the director of the school, Ana Mavar, says that we have the best and most beautiful language school in Croatia: