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Let me just say that today's "Field Day" was horrible. I thought that it would be much better but unfortunately, things just turned out for the worst. But before that, I want to talk about what I did yesterday outside. My father took me to Lincoln Park after we just got a new Soccer Ball because it seemed like a good way to get fresh air. When we got to the Soccer Goals at the park there were a few kids already playing. I decided that because they already had one side of the goal that I could have the other but they asked me to join. Now, of course, I wanted to play with them and had no problem, however, my father was taking videos and pictures of me playing so it was kind of embarrassing. Still, after he started sleeping and no looking my way I did much better, I even scored a goal before the game was over. Once that was over one of the kids said we should play "World Cup". It's this game where you pick a team from the "Russia World Cup 2018 Tournament".

Since there were only two Asian countries I picked Japan instead of South Korea. Whenever you were about to shoot the Soccer ball towards the goal you needed to yell the name of your country. The last person left would be disqualified and play Goalie. The last part was something we didn't do because we felt it would be fair for people to not be able to play the game while others do. Still, it was very competitive and I made some pretty hefty shots. And of course, the last person was still considered the loser. Afterwards, I started getting super dehydrated and took my Soccer Ball to go. Thankfully, the other guys still had another ball to use. When I got home my mother was ready to take me outside to get my haircut. I said that because I was sweating it wouldn't be good to go get a haircut but then she told me I could take a shower. The problem is that if I do that I would have to take another one after the cut and that would be three showers in one day (I took one a few hours ago).

So instead I just told her we could start walking to the barbershop. After about 30 minutes we reached 23rd street of New York Manhattan and the store was about to close. However, there was a man that stayed behind before it closed and said he'd do my hair for me, so after showing him a picture of what I wanted and some more specific details he did everything for me. My mom kept saying to make it super short but I wanted some more volume in the end. Eventually, we got into a "compromise" where my hair was still a bit shorter than a wanted it to be (1 inch). You see, I wanted to at least have an inch and a half since before my hair was about 2 inches in volume. But you know, you get what you get and can't get upset. I tried to see the good things about it, like the line on the left side of my head (that still looks good) but the front just bothered me. If someone saw me from the side it would be fine but directly in the front, it looked awful.

In the end, I just learned to deal with it, it's not like hair can grow back. But the barber was really nice and seemed to really get me. I liked the way he asked questions like what grade you're in to try and get to know me while cutting my hair. And at the same time, he also wasn't an old guy, probably about in his late 20s and had a very modern accent. At first, he thought my mother was just worried about how much she would have to pay but I knew that wasn't true because my mom never has a problem with how much something costs. Instead, I explained how she just didn't like me having a fancy haircut. Anyway, after the cut, we went to a Chinese restaurant and had some really good Asain food. I ordered, pork dumplings and my mom got the same thing but extra spicy. In the end, she said she didn't like it but in my opinion, it was amazing! I can't do the field day thing today but most likely this week I'll talk about it. That's it for today's post.