get better at darts

I’ve been living in Italy now since August, and I bought a dart board at the end of October, but never put it up because I didn’t have a nail or anything to protect the wall from my roommates. I finally put it up about a month ago, but have been so busy with classes that I haven’t played much. However, having it up and playing every once in a while is improving my game, and the board was about 15 euros with six darts, so I’m not out much money either!

my little sister asked me to put up our dart board, so combining this with my “Be an awesome big brother” goal, I spent a few hours figuring out how to hang our board outside, how to pad fence behind it and the wall below it so that the darts that miss (she’s 13) don’t get damaged, moving a giant umbrella to shade us from the Spanish sun while playing, etc. And I did it all with her and including her so that she was part of everything and felt like she was doing it too. It was fun, but better yet is that she seems happy and seems to be getting less stressed as we play, which is great because she can be a little (read is almost always enormously, incredibly, ridiculously) tough to deal with. We both aren’t very good, but we’re getting better and I think it helps us bond and helps her deal with things by distracting her from her difficulties.
Who would have thought darts could be so meaningful?