I was excited. In Brazil, all I did was set because there were hitters a lot better than me. Here I can spike on the outside.

Here it's real interesting. You don't chose players to play on the team, they're in the school.

I really like the team here. They are real together. We have practice every day and the girls are real, real nice with me. We have a good team.

Someday I'd like to do some real traveling. I'm obsessed with Brazil and I've always had this dream of backpacking through South America.

Slowly, slowly I am starting to understand what has happened to me and to this Brazil team.

It's wonderful for Brazil to have so many talented forwards. We have many good players, and I don't think other teams have so many, so I think that it's a good problem. We have good replacements. It's wonderful.