Caissa (Volleyball)

Caissa, what we had worked for all along, this was the last tournament of the volleyball season. This was it. We met at school at two am that Wednesday morning; I hardly slept a couple of hours that night. After a couple of flights and hours of waiting, we finally got to the Dominican Republic at around three in the afternoon; we arrived at Carol Morgan School and met our hosts. The next day, we got to school at eight in the morning. The Opening Ceremony began, and so we heard the national anthems for each of the countries participating; Ecuador, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela and Dominican Republic.
We were playing the hosts, CMS for the opening match, and after around an hour, it was finished, we had killed them in three sets. We played the best volleyball of all season.  Later on that day, we played ISPS (Trinidad), and unfortunately, we lost. I have to admit though that two of their players, seniors, were extremely talented. They actually were so good, that they made it into their national team, which is pretty impressive. Later on that day, we went to the mall, where pretty much everyone was. 
The following day, we only had one game, against Cotopaxi (Ecuador). The statistics showed it was very likely we would play them on the semi-finals, so this was sort of a practice for the playoffs.  There was a small reunion that night at our host's place, where people from his school and my school as well went to. The big day was here, Saturday, the playoffs.  We played Cotopaxi in the semi-finals. It was a tight game, they won the first set, we won the second, they won the third and sadly, the forth too, 25-22. We were now playing for the bronze medal, against CMS. We had beaten them once already, and I think that was not good for some of us, since we went into the match a bit too confident. I have to say that game was by far, the most intense, the hardest (both mentally and physically) and the last one of the whole season.  If you want to know how that game ended you'll have to wait for my next entry …