tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24661998884333375662012-02-16T04:12:37.635-08:00Come on my journey through life with me...Luke Zellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17775743296476064075noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2466199888433337566.post-92064796800804284892010-05-07T05:34:00.000-07:002010-05-07T21:48:18.076-07:00

This week is the last week of the regular season and we actually have a bye. We had a morning practice this morning and we went to a different gym than normal. The gym is called Ohijigoaka (my pronunciation, which is seldom correct is O-HE-JOKE-UH) and it is about a 10-15 minute bike ride away. It depends on when gear my basket bearing machine is in. It is a 15 minute ride in 14th gear, but a

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"Playoffs!?!? We're talking about the playoffs?!?" - Jim MoraYes, here in Shiga we are talking about the playoffs. We have finished our 52 game season with a record of 29 - 23 and we have made the playoffs. We have done well and this has been a crazy season to be apart of. I have had so many interesting experiences here in Japan and will share them with you as much as I can. I am sorry that

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So it's been a long time since I blogged. Quick update on the team. We are currently 18-18 and 4th in our conference but it is getting to be a tight playoff race here for the last two months of our season. We just got to Tokyo to the hotel here before shootaround. I can't help but read the notes on different hotels each time. I started to read this one and it's the standard what to do in

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So I want to recap the an amazing Thanksgiving week!!! My fiance Hope came out to visit me. We hadn't seen each other in 3 months so it was much anticipated to see her. She left Saturday morning for her and got her Sunday night. The most difficult part of her flight from South Bend to Detroit was security in South Bend.....what?!! Yeah, somehow the security in South Bend took her quite a

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Sorry for the delay in the posts. I have a bunch of them written down and will be posting them all soon. My beautiful fiance Hope was here to visit me last week for Thanksgiving and brought me a new computer. I can now post them. I am headed to do a radio interview here in Japan. It will be interesting as the radio is all in Japanese and I know very little Japanese. We will see how it goes.

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I had an off day today and some youtube videos that I can relate to:This describes my parents dieting....my dad used to do this with cookies.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGWUswIQ020this is my mom and dad on vacation in Hawaii at the Maui Invitation last year. They stayed an extra day without us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=469GeeqVumY

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Shige our trainer just knocked on my door and came in to translate my air conditioning/heat unit. The only thing I understand on it is the temperature. It is a number that is in Celsius. I just push up on down on it to set the temperature and thought this was all I had to do. It got rather chilly this weekend here and I put the temperature up quite a bit, but it didn't seem to get warmer. I

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My computer is broke. I am borrowing my teammate Chris'. Things have been good here. We are currently number one in the league at 7-3. We leave tomorrow for Fukouka. It sounds funny and is an 8 hour bus trip away. Bus leaves at 7:45, so that will be exciting. Speaking of exciting. Right now I am looking at Honeymoon spots (Hope has left this task to me with only a few paramaters. The

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Will update soon. We were 1-1 this weekend. Here are some pictures. http://topics.shiga-saku.net/

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We had a two game preseason road trip. We started out on Monday morning and got onto our team bus that is painted out and decal ed so that anyone within a one mile radius knows the Shiga Lakestars are on that bus! It's pretty sweet. It's a nice charter bus and good thing because we spent a lot of time on it.Evidently it is Silver week here which is a vacation week for all of Japan. They have

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So I've been busy with practice and everything here, but I just wanted to write a quick story. We had our first practice game against KCC - the best team in Korea and lost by about 15. They are very good. Their center Ha played for the Trailblazers for quite a while - he is 7"3. He dunked once and he lowered the goal in our gym. (Our gym that we have to tape down the lines to be able to play

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Our training camp is somewhere about an hour away from where we stay. We are staying at a bed and breakfast that literally looks like just another house along an offroad, but it is nice. We had weightlifting this morning for about 2 hours because we had orientation with our strength coach for a long time. The weightlifting isn't really anything too strange. It is not as tough as the St.

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Today was a very, very long day. We started out and got picked up at our apartment at 9. We had to be in our suits and we drove about 40 minutes to get to the place. Then we took pictures for about an hour in our suits. Then we waited for a long time. After, we got into our jerseys and took more pictures. Then we had lunch at noon in their company cafeteria. The lunch was good. It was

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I woke up this morning and via skype had a premarital counseling session with Hope and our mentors - John and Diane Diendu. They both go to our house church and John was a pastor for a long time. It was a good session and thanks to technology that we are able to continue moving our relationship forward from many miles apart. This morning we went back over to the weight room and had

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Today I woke up and made some breakfast. I had eggs and some cereal. It's a good thing I learned how to cook a little bit this past year or else I would be going hungry. At about 8:40 Mike and I met coach downstairs and followed him to the weight room. We went through some back alleys and it was about a 10 or 15 minute bike ride. We got there and I still haven't gotten used to the custom of

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This morning I woke up early. I still haven't adjusted entirely to time difference here so I still wake up at about 3 every morning and then it takes me anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour to fall back asleep. Once back asleep I can usually sleep until 7 or 8. I woke up and made some breakfast. I was videochatting with Hope on Skype as I was eating breakfast and I heard a sound. The best way

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This monring I couldn't sleep real well so I woke up made some eggs and decided to go for a bike ride. It was about 5:30. I still have some jet lag and just overwhelmed still with living in an apartment I hit my head everytime I turn around. My bike is awesome....it is a 21 speed bike with a basket on the front - what more could a guy ask for? I went for quite a while just enjoying riding

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So I haven't blogged since graduation basically. A lot has happened. I will update with where I'm at now and then as I go I will pick up with what happened throughout my busy, exciting summer. Yesterday after an emotional trip to the airport with my fiance (yes I am engaged to Hope...more on that in a later blog, but she is amazing and perfect for me and we're getting married August 14, 2010)

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I was a guest columnist for the Washington Times Herald - here is what I wrote: I am officially now a Notre Dame University Alum. Over the last four years there were times I thought a title like that would never come. Other times, it was a title that I thought I didn’t want. Just as my four years at Notre Dame didn’t pass by without any hiccups in the plan, the three day graduation weekend

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So I've been working out hard in Indy.  It's been really good.  Workouts have been tough.  My lunch yesterday was baked cod, lima beans, and baby spinach salad.  I thought that was questionable at best, but then I got dressing....I think it was dressing.  I smelled it and it was quite pungent.  It stung the nostrils.  It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be though.  It made the baby

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So I've been working out for the last two weeks in Indianapolis.  I am training with Champions Academy for basketball and St. Vincent's Sports Performance Center for everything else.  I have a dietician that has me on a strict eating schedule.  She has breakfast, lunch, and dinner planned out for me as well of my post workout snacks.  I did a bod pod test to find out my weight and my metabolism.

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So I just finished writing a column for the Washington Times Herald about graduation.  I will post it on here when it comes out.  It's definitely way too long for the newspaper unless they're doing a couple page insert and I'm most definitley not that special.  I will post all of it on here though. I am currently sitting in a Panera just down the road from my hotel in Indianapolis.  They kick me

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I am still working on getting the pictures of the two seven footers building sand castles. The pictures are on Hope's camera and she is holding them ransom evidently. Speaking of castles, Tyler and I built a wonderful sand castle...sort of. The castle had five levels to it with a sweet room on the top. By the time we got done, we decided it looked more like a prison and joked that not even Sean

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So as it's late and I am very tired. This will be short, but don't let the longevity of the message be representative in your eyes to the gratitude of the amazing woman that is in my life - my mom. She is awesome and deserves much more than just this, so I will stop here and do justice to her amazingness blogging about her later.Sorry about the week away from the Blog. My girlfriend Hope and I

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Today, my girlfriend Hope graduated from Bethel College.  I am incredibly proud of her and have to brag on her 3.94 gpa in 2 majors and 2 concentrations that I always get mixed up.  In that list is business, early childhood development, youth ministry, and psychology or something like that.  Anyway she's amazing and I'm very proud of her.  I went to the graduation ceremony, which is always

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As I put the finishing touches on my last assignment of my educational career to this point, I realized that I have been in school for over 17 years now.  I have been doing assignments for teachers, professors, priests, and parents for basically my whole life.  As I finish this take home final for my religion and autobiography class I have decided to begin a new chapter.  This chapter I am the

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