Guns up ranger

Austin, October 3rd

Today was just great. I was the first time in my life playing paintball. And I loved it. It was so much fun, and I got known many new people.

I was there with Steffen and some guys from our marching band. I met two of them in the lunch period and one them is in my Theater class. But everyone else I didn't knew until today.

We had to wait until everyone was there, so we -I- started to smash some of the paintballs that lay on the floor. And of course we got dirty. We put the pink color in our faces, not our own of cousre, but in the end we had pink paces and dirty clothes. And we didn't even start. But it was fun.

We played togehter and against some guys from Cedar Park and some other. We had mixed groups.
It was really so much fun. In the first some games I hit just 2 people. But I got hit very often. Even when I said I'm out some guys shot at me.
Once I got hit at my mask. Shouted that I'm hit. Stand up to leave the ground, and four balls hit my in the stomach. That was really not nice.
Then we played 'Normandie'. I don't know it is the name of the field where we played, or we just called it because I said to Steffen in looks a bot like D-day. We had to strom a beack and some hills, where other guys are hided.
It was great, I marked two or four people. I'm not sure, at least had four people to leave the ground after I shot at them.
The only bad thing at Normandie were some plants with spikes. They stick on your clothes and hurt you.

Once I lay at the beach, trieng to get the spike things away from a very bad place (my thigh) and the paintballs flew just centimeters above my head.

But that field I liked most from the big areas.

Later, we were the last people who were still there, six of us played at a small area. Three against three. It was awesome.

The first game I shot all three of the others. I run behind them, they had no chance.

Before the next game Steffen and I sung the German hymn. Loud so the 'enemy' could hear us. One reason was to annoy them, the other, because it is Day of the German Unity. Well not really a reason, but that was why we had the idea to sing.

Some of them had a paint grenade. And he said it has my name on it... I shot three balls on his back the game before. I didn't want to hit him three times, I just didn't expect to hit him with just one...

Very soon I was in the middle of the field. My comrades were behind my, but the others shot so fdast, they couln'd move. Luckily I could escape the grenade, but they couldn'd escape me... So we won again.

Then we changed to another area. We played well, but this time I got hit at the shoulder. Michael got one of them I think, but then they hit him too. Steffen alomst got them, but he run out of the balls. So we lost this time. But it's okay, it's boring to win everytime. And we had so much fun, I didn't really care who of us won, we came as one group, so it doesn't matter, right?



After the game we painted us each other again. Well, mostly I painted. I gave Miranda a war paint. And she draw a smilie on my. In the end most of us, especially Miranda and I, were totally pink...

But it was a great day, we really have to do that again.