Letters from the sunset

Sunday, October 22, 2006

*jumps for joy* Soccer is back, back, back. Back again, gain, gain, gain! *groans* which also means the pain is back. Our firts game was yesterday. We had no practices and it was my first time EVER playing indoor soccer. I was nervouse all day partly because I had to get up at 6:40 for two Volley ball games (we lost by......alot) and then partly because I was worried I wouldn't be a good indoor keeper. So anyway I only remember bits of the games but we won. OOOO I wanna try writing about it! Ok not my falt if it sucks but this is all true.

CLOCK STARTS 20 MIN/Kick off
"Ok girls! Pick up the pace lets do this! Good pass Jerrie!" I yell and my voice strong from yelling across a large out door soccer field echos threw the stands. I'm loud, positive and maby alittle bossy but I have a perspective no one but me can see. I am the boss but thats how I like it.

10 MINETS TO HALF TIME
Score is 2-2 Dam I think as the other team deeks out my mid-feilder. I start barking out a trail of instructions to keep the offence away. My deffenders know what I'm saying and get in postition. A streak of blue come onus fast and hard. I wince. No way is Callie fast or tough enough to get this girl off my back. Cal's amazing but she wont attake so its me and her now. I'v been told different things, From my goalie speshalty coach at camp that the hip are the place you look to see where the ball is going. My normal coach says their which way thier chest faces is where the balls going. But me, I say the balls comeing be ready to move. Theres no do this do that just GET THE FREAKING BALL AWAY FROM YOUR FREAKING GOAL. At all costs. Its comeing too fast to catch with out breaking something. Just get it away, I chant as it speeds closer. Callie runs to my aid but I yell "Keeper" and she backs off. She know me and my abilitys just like I knew that it was between me and this Blue monster. Callie missed her chanch so now its mine. Don't get me wrong but Cal would just get in the way and screen me so its better she stay out. I hunch down. The moment comes and I push the ball away, Bad move. In out-door soccer my job is to get the ball to the deffence but here in this tight and sweaty areana I have to catch the ball. Hey its my first game I'm still learning. I see a window of hope. The balls falling...fast. down to the rubbery astroturf which in a moment I will find out tastes not so snazzy. All I have time to think is GET THAT FREAKING BALL. No ands ifs or buts. so I do. Pushing aside my second deffence and another blue blure I leap from the plastic grass into midair. I see the ball and I want it. AT ALL COSTS. I think and swip it out of its gravitatinal free fall. I'm not the only one who wanted that ball, Callie jumps andso does the blue girl. I have the ball and I see the blue one Sailing towards me. Next moment I'm leying flat, astroturf in my mouth and a blue jersey on top of me. Callie sits on my ancles. 4 second rule! I pick the my self up spitting little rubber bits and boot the ball as far as I can manage.

HALF TIME
"we are doing great." Coach G tells us. Were winning 4-3 and should be proud. Callie looks at me leying on the ground and ask's how I feel. "Astorturf tasts like my moms caserole" I tell the team. We all laugh.

KICK OFF
"Good job Hale" I pant as the blue forward intersepts the pass. "Nice try"
I wince as Abby and the blue monster who kindly sat on me slam into the bords. "Fight for it!" I yell. Not pysicaly but well you get it right? She wins and passes to B who charges forward and passes to Katie who shoots. The oposing goalie blockes it and kickes it too one of her little minions. I hear the loude voices of parents as they yell out supestions. The first half I had the far end goal now its different because I get to listen to what the poeple are saying about my team. I feel all eyes on suddenly snap to Katie and a blue team member as they come closer to the goal. The blue girl get into my box (the white lines which are like 9 yards wide and 11 yards long. I think)

KICK OFF AFTER A GOAL BY THE BLUEIES
6 min left and we'er leading by 1 point. Another blue girl brings the ball past Katie and I wonder where Callie is when I need her. I see it in this girls eyes she wants to score....badly. The croude (amazingly) shuts up and time slows. I feel each tick tock of the clock go by and I taste the venom of her shot in the air as it wistles over my head. The blueies cheer, the croude breaks its silence and lose interest in the game. They watch from the conner of thier eyes and those who saw where awe struck. Maby it was Volley ball instinct (I'm a hiter so I do the spiking and blocking up at the net), maby I'm just geting realy good, I reach up and meraculosly pluck the ball from its suicadol slam its self into the back wall misson. Instead I slam it down...hard. Like a good, hard spike and it bounces into my hands. The hole stadume (oh yes all 10 poeple) cheer. I shrug and boot the ball forward.

INFRONT OF MY NET
3 minets left and I wont let them score. They'v brocken my deffence 5 times and shot about 6 times. Now there here again. Katie and Callie (my possably best deffence) are nowhere to be found and I find myself once again staring down a tall blue jursyed brunette with would be killer instincts. I see it, no way around it. If I want that ball I have to dive. So I take a breath and through my self at her feet curling around the ball so she can't kick it out of my hands. Shes in mid-swing at the ball. Instead of the ball her foot comes in contact with my shoulder and I loose balance and fall forward. Hello ground I think. Ohhh I struggle to get up but can't. where her foot kicked me hurts. I clutch my prize (the ball) and my shoulder. not the top of my shoulder but the space where you can lay your hand flat allmost directly over your hart but a bit higher. That is guna sting in the morning. but right now I'm so amped up on adrenalin it just is a shock more than anything. "She kicked me" I yell and Callie races over. "you ok?" "Yah yah" I pant. "4 second rule!" She yells over the croude. "right" I shoot back and pick my self up.

IN THE CAR PLAY BY PLAY WITH MOM
MOM-Great game sweet hart.
MY LITTLE SISTER- You won! You won! The other team lost!
ME-Yah
MOM-blah blah blah sports man ship, Blah blah blah how you play the game.
ME-We kicked butt.
MOM-Well yes. Great saves. That one where you just reached up looked effortless.
ME-Meh some where decent, Joan played better then she did in out door.
MOM-Did you get brused around too much?
ME-Dont I always?
MOM-That girl looked heavy.
ME-Poor girl. wasn't expecting me.
MOM-The couple beside my said you where a great keeper.
ME- (I was so close to rolling my eyes) That was nice of them.
SISTER-Moive night!
ME-Can we rent that new soccer movie?
MOM-Of coures

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Sorry that was pretty bad. Anyway Yah thats how it happened we won 6 to 4 and everything hurts. Volley ball game tommorow and a soccer parctice...yay. My shoulders hurt the most but it comes with the game. My mom said to shut up or she'd take me outa soccer. So I'v shut up about the advil which I never got. Ohhh She's The Man, is a grtea soccer movie. When you join Kylaias favorit things (soccer, comady, cute and an addad bouns shirtless guys just kidding and shackpear) you get one amazing movie! Me likey the cheese!

2 Comments:

  • I slep till 1:00pm today. Well sorta I had to go to volley ball and school but I got to miss school because I was so sick. I think I finaly learned what marr ment with not over loading my self with stuff. My perfectly balenced life almost fell to pices yesterday. I had an leadership meeting at 8:15 then I left for a editing meeting with my english teacher at 8:30 till school started. We got nothing done so hes giveing me an extention. I went to my first morning class's and left early from then so I could go to my volentear cantean job, at 12:05 I left for a audition which turned out that I just got the job as DJ/announcer for my school's dances then at 12:20 I was at a choir meeting there are 20 of us! Only 20 for the rememberance day cerimonie! We are singing empty chairs and empty tables from les miserables and changes in me from bueaty and the beast. Then I had what was it? Oh yah a inter school leadership group meeting. We decided some things like our global project and our comunity project. Funny the girl who threatened me last year would be in a totaly anti-bulleying group. Then I went home. So there you go marr I was wrong you where right! I feel like crap. I have a soccer game at 8:15 which I have to be at for 7:45 but it takes 20 min to get there so I gutta wake up at 6:50 on sunday. Huzza weekends suck. Oh yah and my grandpas birthday party and my cusins on saterday. I hope we're not late cause my cusins on my team and yah. So there you have it marr happy birthday! Oh yah and something else happened but I still don't wanna talk about it cause I'll cry.

    By Blogger A girl and her horse, at 6:16 p.m.  

  • Happy Birthday to me? I'm not your grandfather. And my birthday is in July.

    Still a youngin',
    Marr Vell

    P.S. You are very busy, I can't say that I envy you in that.

    By Blogger Marr, at 12:53 p.m.  

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