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me with Matteo Piano, Katowice 2017

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MY TRIP TO CURITIBA - 2017

Hey guys, here I am again! If you don’t know, this post is inspired by this post from Iza ♥ (I already made two posts like this one and u can check them HERE).

Technically this can’t be ''my trip'' but I live in the metropolitan area of Curitiba, so consider it as a trip hahaha. 

Let's start, when I knew that Final 6 would be here I was very excited (of course), but when they left the ticket prices I was like WHAT??? For u have an idea, in Rio I paid 3 times less than here, anyway. I bought tickets only for the final (08.07.17) because it was the only day that I had no commitment in the games schedule.

On thursday (06.07), my friend sent me a message saying that his father had gotten tickets for the games and I went to Brazil vs Russia. It was so nice to be back, the energy is always amazing!

On saturday (08.07), I went to the hotel at 2pm, and there I met a friend who came from another city to watch the games. We were waiting for Lucarelli to bring her ticket. While we were outside chatting, we saw a movement on the side of the hotel and when we got there (YEAH), Petrić and Ngapeth were talking. My purse fell in this moment, so I was awkward in this picture hahaha

He is so cuuuute, really. He said thanks when we take this photo ♥ Maja, your boys are amazing, be more proud! 

Now with the MVP. He is super sweet and said "tchau” (bye in portuguese) for me hahaha

After 15 minutes, Lucarelli came to deliver the ticket to my friend. He was very polite, and greeted me with a kiss on the cheek (♥), and then I asked to take a photo:

After that, my friend and I went to the hotel where she stayed to charge her phone. A few minutes later we came back, and Kliuka was leaving.

He was very very VERY nice and cute. He surprised me (:

I saw Okolić inside the hotel but he didn’t leave ):

I met Simon, who came to watch the games too. 

There were people asking for a photo speaking in english and he said "guys, I speak portuguese a little bit" hahahaha. 

At 5:30pm the buses arrived

The first to leave were the americans and unfortunately I couldn’t talk to Christenson and Jaeschke, they got on the bus very fast ):

But I've seen them all (it's already been worth it). I asked to take a picture with Erik Shoji

He is the cuteness in person, I can’t  ♥

They left very quickly so it was hard to talk to them. When Sander left, I almost jumped to get a picture and I did it hehehe

He is SO cute and friendly, really. And what about the eyelashes? I can’t.

After that the canadian team left but unfortunately I couldn’t get a photo with any of them. I called Perrin but he didn’t hear me ):

Now some photos of the games, unfortunately my team did not win but it was a volleyball show and I'm very happy to have witnessed it one more time. I sincerely think that I give luck to France, the first time they were champions I was in Rio, and now here hahahaha

I hope you like this post, and I really hope someday we can watch a game together! Thanks for reading! Love you all ♥

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me with Luca Vettori, Katowice 2017

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me with Lukas Kampa, Katowice 2017

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MY TRIP TO KATOWICE

Hey everyone! Few days ago I posted some photos with volleyball players and now it’s time to tell you about my eurovolley trips! 

On Wendesday, 30th of August I went to Katowice. To be honest, I’ve never gone by train alone before so I was a little stressed. It’s because I got used to go on volleytrips with my boyfriend. That time he couldn’t go with me because of the exam he had to retake (UPDATE: he passed it hehe). I got on a train at 7 am and arrived in Katowice at 12. Kinga had already been waiting for me so I found her and then we could start our volley adventure! 

We weren’t VERY excited at the beginning because it was our first visit ever in Katowice. We spend some time searching for the right tram and then – for our hotel. 2 hours later we decided to go and eat lunch in McDonald’s because we didn’t have much time to find something better. Why? Cause we had to hurry up for the playoffs! 

 Actually we bought those tickets just to spend one more day with volleyball. We had our seats in one of the higher sectors so we went there and enjoyed Italians who played the first playoff. I’m not gonna lie, it was very boring. The most exciting moment of Italy-Turkey match was the end of the 3rd set. Turkey was close to win it but luckily Italians won the whole match. 

When the second playoff started it was getting worse and worse. We were too tired. We just wanted it to end. ALSO France lost so ??????????? and Poland in Kraków ???????????? Nevermind. Playoffs ended and we came back to our hotel. 

The second day in Katowice was way much better. We woke up quite early and decided to go sightseeing a little. We really felt like tourists. Especially because we were there for the first time :D 

After eating delicious italian pizza we went to buy italian flag and then returned to our hotel to get changed before the quarterfinal matches. Do I have to tell you how excited we were then? Our seats were the best. We were sitting in the second row, behind the referee. Also the camera man liked us because they showed us in TV couple of times hahaha. 

The first match Germany-Czech Republic. I can say that we were one of the few who supported Germany. They won so we were very very happy. After the match we wanted to take some pics with players. We saw that Christian Fromm went to take photos with german fans so we went there too. I took my selfie and then I tried to take a photo for Kinga. She nearly fell down the stairs lmao but she has it. 

Later we went to another sector because we knew that Lukas Kampa was there. Also we met there Salvador Oliva, our plusliga star so we took pics with him too. 

After that we came back to our sector close the court because Italians had already been Warming up. I took a few photos of them. 

The match didn’t look like we wanted to. The second set was a complete disaster. They tried their best and fought but they couldn’t do anything. When the match was over we came closer to the court. We didn’t even think that we could have any photos with italians because they lost their match. We were just standing with other italian supporters. The thing which surprised us was that there were only few people (not like in Kraków haha). 5 minutes later Massimo Colaci came to us and took photos with us!!! We thought that he would be the only one to do that but after a minute we saw Simone Giannelli, Luca Vettori and Matteo Piano. We were in shock because they really seemed to be grateful for the support. We were so happy. Beside Italians, Sam Deroo was close to us. Kinga did something weird with her hands and waved to him ???? and didn’t tell anything ???? but he smiled and took pics with us. 

We felt very fulfilled and went out of Spodek. Actually we couldn’t believe that was happening. Moments like that show how true volleyball love is. THAT made us fall in love with Italy even more. Despite of the defeat, despite of absence of Ivan. We just can’t wait to see them again! I think that’s it. 

if you haven’t followed me on my instagrams yet (then you probably missed my instastories from trips!) you can do it now. THANK YOU!

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me with Maxim Mikhaylov, Kraków 2017

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me with Simone Giannelli, Katowice 2017

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me with Sam Deroo, Katowice 2017