Tennis

My sophomore year of high school I did not have a ride home from school. Every day after school I would wait around and do homework until my mom came to pick me up around 4:30. My friend Krista told me I could come with her to tennis practice after school. Before my friend told me this, I didn’t even know our school had a team. I figured the coach would not like it if I came after school, but Krista said she would not mind. The next day it happened to be raining. You cannot play on tennis courts when they are wet. You could get seriously injured from slipping and sliding. The coach hated cancelling practice so she took the team out to the wresting annex. In the annex was a small T.V with Zumba on the screen. The tennis girls cheered when they saw what was on the T.V, so I figured they must have done this before. For about an hour long we all danced Zumba moves. I had so much fun the first day that I came back after school the next day as well. It ended up being just as fun as the day before. After a long practice the coach took the girls on a “polar pop run.” This meant they all lined up in a row and ran to Circle K to get polar pops. Then they walked back. The coach said this was great because it gave the girls a reason to run and they enjoyed doing it. My sophomore year they named me the official ball girl of their team and my junior year I went out for tennis. I am so incredibly glad that my friend Krista told me about Archbold tennis.

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My Trip To New Orleans

I feel like I have told this story a hundred times, but it was a very important lesson in my life. My brother always talked about how much fun he had on the mission trip he attended down in New Orleans when he was in eighth grade. The summer of my freshman year, I also had the opportunity to go to New Orleans on a Lutheran youth gathering. I knew this would be a great opportunity to become closer to God and become closer to my church youth group. I filled out all of the paper work and packed my bags for the week trip to New Orleans. Many of the churches were flying down, but my church could not afford to fly all of our youth. So instead we decided to take a charter bus with two other church groups. We left our church at about 6 o'clock pm on a Tuesday. The plan was to get to New Orleans at lunch time on Wednesday. The bus ride would be a little over twenty hours with frequent breaks. Our first bus driver took us eight hours down into Tennessee where we switched bus drivers. Our second bus driver was ten minutes late and seemed very frazzled. When she pulled the bus out of the parking lot she made an illegal U-turn in four lanes of traffic. A police officer was sitting at the stop light and pulled us over. We thought our bus driver would get a ticket and a small fine and we would be back on our way to New Orleans. This unfortunately was not the case. As we waited on the side of the road, we noticed more police cars coming. I counted seven police cars at one time. We were all very confused and did not know what was going on. Finally a cop came on our bus and told us our bus driver was drunk. They gave her a breathalyzer test and it was so high they took her to the station to confirm it. At the station they took her blood and found out she was indeed drunk. Our charter bus sat on the side of the road for about an hour, while we waited for our old bus driver to come pick us up. He drove us to Wal-Mart where we waited another two hours for a new bus driver. The whole situation brought me closer to God and my church group. I learned on this trip to never take life for granted. Even though we were on the charter bus for over twenty four hours, it was well worth the crazy experience.

My First Yellow Card

It was a Tuesday morning and my entire class was excited. Tuesdays meant gym class and gym class meant fun. We all gathered in line and I remember my best friend Cassidy asking a question to the boy in front of us. She asked, "What do scissors do?" The little boy replied back to her, "Cut." At this moment Cassidy thanked the boy and we both cut in line. The walk to the gym was supposed to be quiet, but we all were guessing what we would be playing in gym that day. My guess was dodge ball, while another guess was basketball. When we got to the gym we were greeted by our gym teacher Mr. Harris. We all thought Mr. Harris was the coolest gym teacher around. He was very strong and the muscles on his arm were bigger than my head! He would occasionally let kids in my class hang on his arms, while he flexed. We started gym class by stretching all of our muscles. The grasshopper was my favorite stretch. After stretching we each got to go get a scooter. The scooters were always a favorite among my friends. By the time we were done on the scooters, gym class was over. We all got in line and made our way back to the classroom. In elementary school we always had to change our gym shoes after gym class. After getting a drink from the fountain, I sat down and tried to get my gym shoes off. The first shoe came off very easily, but the second shoe I could not slip off. I pulled and pulled at my shoe, but it would not budge. By this time everyone else was in the classroom except my friend Jessica and I. She was always the last one to get back into the classroom. Finally I thought of an idea. I was going to kick my shoe off. I swung my foot back and forth and before I knew it my shoe was flying in the air right at Jessica's face. The shoe smoked her right on top of the head and she began to cry. It was not my intention at all to hurt Jessica, I just wanted to get my shoe off. Before I knew it my teacher was out in the hall questioning me what happened. She asked if I hit Jessica with my shoe, but I had to lie because I did not want to pull my card. I was a pretty good kid in elementary school and I did not get yelled at often. I was very embarrassed and did not want to tell the truth. I ended up feeling so bad that I told my teacher everything that happened. She made me pull my card to yellow, but explained to me that I was not in trouble. She also told me to tell the truth from the beginning and I would not have to pull my card at all. This was a great lesson for me and I was honest the rest of my years.

College Experience

College has been a huge change for me. It is a brand new experience that has taken a while to get used too. To save money, I chose to commute to college. I knew my first obstacle would be making friends. In high school, I relied on my friends for almost everything. They had been my friends since kindergarten. If I ever had a problem, I knew I could always go to them. I would have called myself a follower in high school. I watched my friends and I followed many of their actions. The first week of college was difficult because everyone who lived on campus already had a lot of friends. They all knew each other and they could also pick out the commuters. I don't know how many times I heard, "I haven't seen you in the dorms, you must be a commuter!" I knew I had to be a leader in college because I could not rely on my high school friends anymore. Luckily, in my first week I saw a few familiar faces in my classes and I soon realized I had many of the same people in all of my classes. I also found out that there were more commuters than I had realized before. Now in my second semester of freshman year I have many friends and I continue to meet new people every week.

One Fiery Night

My head was spinning. I awoke in a jail cell with a thumping headache. I couldn't recall what happened the previous night, but I did find a large goose egg on top of my head. My jail cell had a very strange odor. While I stood up to walk to the bars of my cell, I felt something jingle in my pocket. I reached in my pocket and pulled out a fake ID. I also felt something sharp. It looked like a tab off of a beer can. The night was slowly coming back to me. I remembered borrowing my friends ID and going to a bar with some other friends, but how did I end up in jail? I reached into my other pocket and pulled out my car keys. I also found a diamond bracelet that definitely did not belong to me. The last item I found was the finishing piece to the puzzle. I pulled out a box full of matches with one match missing. Then it all came back to me. While at the bar, I saw my boyfriends ex-girlfriend. We got into a scuffle and I got kicked out of the bar. I was so angry that I drove to her house, broke in, and stole her expensive diamond bracelet. While in her house, I saw an old picture of her and my boyfriend. This sent me over the top! I went to my car, pulled out my spare can of gasoline, and lit her house on fire. As I was walking back to my car I remember hearing someone behind me and then I woke up here in this jail cell. One thing is certain, I had one hell of a night.