For today’s post I am going to be talking about what happened yesterday because that day was sort of fun. Sooo… since it was raining my teacher couldn’t take us outside and because of this we just sat there and literally had a whole presentation about the stuff that we were going to be doing for soccer practice. But in all honesty, I think that we probably wouldn’t have gone outside anyway just because of the fact that we needed the meeting. So we could’ve just been sitting there the whole time. 

But who knows, maybe we would’ve done some running after the meeting because when it was finished there was still another 30 minutes. My teacher just let us do whatever we wanted, my one friend who actually made it into the soccer team wasn’t here because he was in London (the kid just came back today), and I didn’t have my phone so I just sat there with my stomach hurting and my hoodie on cause it was still cold and there was so much noise. My coach told me today that he’s thinking of putting me on outer defense because there are a lot of goalies and I personally am just really scared of the ball or scared of letting my teammates down by not being able to get the ball. 

If I am the defender that means that I have to be careful of not getting my glasses hit by the ball and I still have to work on confidence because I need to try and get some headers (scoring a goal with my head). My coach gave everyone a paper and we had to give it to our parents so that they can sign it and hand it back in on Monday, this is so that the parents know that exactly is needed for the team and what u need to do in order to play Soccer. I’m kinda mad that because I don’t have my medical filled out I have to wait on the side of the field and not play like everyone else but it’s honestly whatever.

I’m kinda mad at the same time that I am defender because that’s not really the best position or I don’t think highly of it. I would prefer to go ahead and play midfielder and maybe left or right wing, but of course I’m just not fast enough and I’m not confident. Of course my teachers haven’t seen this side of me yet but because they  already have so many good competitors and people who wanna play the more popular roles I should just stay in my league. 

My teacher is expecting that in the team we can at least make it into the playoffs because that is really important to him. He wants to improve every single year and because of the fact that some of us are 8th graders we need to be leaders and look out for our 7th and 6th grader teammates, we can’t use the excuse that the other teams have 8th graders because we have 8th graders as well, I’m just quoting my teacher by the way.