{"id":35155,"date":"2015-08-11T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=35155"},"modified":"2015-08-10T16:45:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T20:45:48","slug":"player-writes-about-first-couple-days-of-uts-trip-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/08_11_2015\/player-writes-about-first-couple-days-of-uts-trip-to-europe","title":{"rendered":"Player writes about first couple days of UT’s trip to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day one-and-a-half is in the books on the Toledo women’s basketball team’s trip to London.<\/p>\n

Sophomore Jada Woody wrote up her thoughts on the first 20-plus hours of the trip.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today was a long busy day! We started off in the States, taking off from Detroit on a nonstop flight to London.<\/p>\n

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Players posed for a photo at the airport.<\/p><\/div>This was the first international flight for many of us, but it was a great experience. Most people got some sleep. But if not, we were out of luck because once we landed we had a full day planned ahead of us. <\/p>\n

The flight was about seven hours, so when we touched down in London, it was already 10:30 a.m. We boarded our charter bus and went to the other side of the airport to pick up the other flight of people that would join our party.<\/p>\n

After everyone finished visiting and getting on the bus, we made our way to the hotel. We went through the busier part of the city, which we learned from Jay-Ann [Bravo-Harriott] and Janice [Monakana] was called Central London.<\/p>\n

This part of the city was busy with a ton of people, cars, buses and even a Korean Festival was going on. The buildings are really pretty and a lot of them look really old. <\/p>\n

At the hotel [in Central London], we had a lunch option of fish and chips or burger and chips. I went with the fish and it was awesome! Yum yum!<\/p>\n

Following lunch, we had a little break and then had a team walk through to review our plays before we have our game tomorrow. It was a good refresher after such a long flight. <\/p>\n

Then we went to dinner at Nando’s, which Jay-Ann and Janice said was like their version of Mexican-style food. But to us, it wouldn’t be the same thing that we would call Mexican food in the U.S. It was really tasty though. <\/p>\n

We had some free time after dinner, so a lot of the players walked around the city a bit. We crossed over the Thames River and the Millennium Bridge. We took a lot pictures because it was so beautiful! Around the river, there were a lot of cool restaurants and music going on. <\/p>\n

Overall it was a fun and interesting day despite how tired we all were. <\/p>\n

Next up the Rockets will take a tour of Buckingham Palace, followed by a walk through the Embankment area, before wrapping up the day with their first of two games against Barking Abbey\/Reading Rockets at the City Sport Gym.<\/p>\n

For all the latest information, photos and videos from the trip, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Players are chronicling the the women’s basketball team’s trip to Europe. Read the first post by sophomore Jada Woody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35159,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35155\/revisions\/35159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}