Rafael Nadal

Explaining the picture below: The guy with the great tan is Rafael Nadal, and he is a tennis player form Spain. The girls have decided that he is MY player, as Andy is Laura’s, and Rodger is Emily’s. He’s 18, and he is an amazing player, very quick, very strong. He’s right handed, but he plays left handed, which is very cool. He speaks horrible, horrible English though. Anyways, so the girls and I (All in jest though) pretend that he and I have a ‘relationship’. I call him Ralph, and we both love each other very much but we have communication problems. I am always mad at Ralph, because he doesn’t understand me, and he always cries because he thinks I’m saying things that I’m not! HA! We have a translator named Bob who lives with us, but Bob can only help us so much. Somehow, we’ve managed to stay together, despite the communication problems. He loves the hot chocolate I make.

HA ha ha ha… it’s quite entertaining, yet another one of the fictions we Studers have going. We must have hundreds.

A sad (and true) note about Rafael though, is that his hands are in wretched shape right now, blisters, wear cuts, etc, and they’re not sure if he will be able to play in the French Open. Rafael was expected to win the French Open this year, because of the recent improvement in his game and the fact that it’s a clay court, and of course that’s Rafael’s specialty considering he’s from Spain. I hope he heals up in time.