Soccer Game!!

Last night was my first soccer game. I can officially say that soccer is my favorite sport. The game was against another middle school in my district called the Tidwell Titans. Since there were two teams with no substitutes, we all had to be in the game the whole time. I played the left outside midfield and I loved my position. I got to do the throw-ins if the ball went out on the other team. The only bad part about soccer is all the running. I'm not a very fast runner, but I can run for long periods. Running for an hour in cleats and shin guards that I'm still trying to get used to isn't really good. Since we had no subs and both A and B team was exhausted after their specific game, we might just combine the two teams so that we have subs for when we get tired. But until next Monday, we won't know what's going to happen for our next game in two weeks.

UPDATE!!!

Since the last time I blogged, a lot has happened. At my last track meet, I placed sixth place for discus at the zone meet. I was ecstatic when they told who placed on the big speaker. I tried out for the soccer team and got on B team. It seemed really hard at the tryouts, but it got easier. Today we ran a mile at practice in under 9 minutes and I actually got it. I also took the 7th grade Writing STAAR and the 8th grade Math STAAR. The writing test was a two-day test that you had to answer 46 revising and editing questions and write a total of three essays. The math test was absolutely horrible. There were 64 questions total on the stupid test and we only had four hours to take it. I took 3 hours and 35 minutes to take the test. I know I did good on the test. I just hope I get commended on the test.

Dad's B-Day Party

Last Saturday was my dad's 50th birthday party and it was awesome. My mom had spent over a month planning this party out. There were streamers, lanterns, banners, and balloons everywhere. Everything was black, silver, and gold. There were tons of families there too. We had people from our neighborhood and people from Dallas. They all came from everywhere. The other big part was the food. Oh the food was AMAZING! My mom made almost everything- with the exception of the Puerto Rican rice, cheese sauce, pizza rolls, and potato salad and even those were made by other people. My mom made BBQ pulled pork, brisket, chicken salad, coleslaw, and baked beans. Everything was delicious. The birthday cake my mom ordered was amazing. It had a picture of my dad on it and said 'Happy 50th Birthday.' All day Saturday was awesome and I would do anything to go back there instead of being at school, but as Robert Frost said, Life goes on.