My Journal: Basketball in Australia

From 20090611_AliceSprings

Outside the basketball court

籃球場外

The sport I like most is basketball, I got a small chance to play basketball after arriving Australia. In order to reduce the weight of my luggage, I didn't bring things that are non-essentials such as sports pants and sports shoes. Furthermore, the popular sports in Australia are tennis, cricket and football, it's not easy to find partners, so is the place for playing.
平常最喜歡的運動就是籃球，到了澳洲之後很少有機會能打籃球。主要是為了減輕行李的重量，非必要的東西都盡量不帶，像是運動褲、運動鞋之類的，而且澳洲主要風行的運動是網球、板球、橄欖球，想要找到球友並不容易，場地也不好找。

From 20090611_AliceSprings

Inside the basketball court
籃球場內部

I've ever seen a basketball court in a park of Sydney, none of the players were western people, all of them were Asians. After visiting so many cities in Australia, I only saw a basketball court in Sydney and another one in the desert city which is located in the middle of Australia called Alice Spring, moreover, it's a free and indoor court which is just on the diagonally opposite side of my backpacker.
曾經在雪梨的公園裡看到有籃球場地，一看，幾乎沒有西方人，都是亞洲人。跑了澳洲那麼多的城市，只在雪梨這看過球場，另一個球場則是在澳洲中部的沙漠城市，愛麗絲泉，而且還是個免費的室內球館。它就在我住的背包客棧的斜對面。

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The location of the free and indoor basketball court in Alice Spring
籃球場的位置

From 20090611_AliceSprings

Inside the basketball court

籃球場內部

I haven't played basketball for almost one year, I felt really excited as a result of finding this place. There was one Aussie lady and a group of kids playing inside. Few more balls were just beside the basketball stands, I borrowed one from her with a polite ask. That was really great to play basketball. After returning her the ball, we had a talk, she told me her younger brother had ever worked in Taiwan and the reason she plays basketball is her father was a basketball coach and she ever was a member of her junior high school team.
將近一年多沒打球，無意中發現這裡，異常的興奮。看到球館內有一位澳洲女士在和一群小朋友打球。籃球架旁邊多了幾顆球，禮貌的向她借了一顆球來打。挺過癮的。還她球的時候，還跟她小聊了一下，她說她的弟弟也曾到台灣工作過。然後會接觸籃球是因為她老爸是教綀，高中時有打過校隊。