Activities
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Basketball, Recital and Chess
I
came into the basketball game; we were winning 12-0 after 10 minutes. I
was disappointed that I couldn’t actually play my hardest. The coach
said
we can’t have a fast break, which means after you steal the ball, you
can’t suddenly break for the basket. One time I stole ball and I was
about to break off toward the basket because I was there was no one in
front of me. But what my coach said came back to me, and I stopped,
pretending to lose my balance a bit. Everyone on the other team came
back for defense, and the game went to there. At the end of the game, I
had 4 points, which I am a little bit disappointed about. I had many
chances during the game and I wasn’t allowed to score.
I also had a violin recital, it wasn’t a great experience. During the recital, I couldn’t remember the song that I was about to play and who it was by. I said the wrong composer, despite me practicing for about an hour. When I started playing, my legs started shaking, and I forgot everything, and I messed up a bunch of times. Overall it was just a bad experience. Next time I will try not to get so scared, I don’t know why, but the human body gets nervous when performing.
Washington class was one of my bad tournaments, I almost lost on time on some of the games and because of that, I had to move really quickly, and because I moved quickly, I made bad moves, and from that, I lost. So in the end, I lost 3 drew 2 and won 1 which game me a score of 2 out of 6. I will work harder on being able to make decisions faster.
by YoYo
This month I had a violin recital I was very nervous because I was
thinking what would happen if I played the wrong song because when I
practiced the piece at home sometimes I would play the piece that I was
playing in the orchestra at school. Another thought that was going
through my head was what if I played a “G” instead of a “B” would my mom
kill me would it go in my permanent record? When I started to think
positively I began to calm down I thought of playing perfectly and then
my mom giving me chocolate. Just then I remembered that I had forgot to
bring my violin back home from school, I was busted for life. Then I
remembered that I could use my brothers violin. In the recital I played
a piece called Etude by S. Suzuki when I walked up on stage carrying the
violin I thought
chocolate the sweetness of it and the satisfying crunch when I bit into
it. I put the big violin onto my shoulder and then started playing it.
At the middle of the song I started to think negatively again my fingers
played slower and more reluctant just when I was about to play so slow
that it would not sound like a song the song ended with a sigh of relief
I walked of the stage happy to have survived I enjoyed the rest of the
concert. When it was my brothers turn he must have thought it was my it
was a nightmare to because one he said the wrong composer and two he
played a few mistakes.
This month my basketball season started the first game we lost but it was okay because it was only a practice game. The second game was sweet I scored 4 points and one included a time when opponent pushed we and I swung my arms over his hands and scored but then I slammed onto the ground. It was a very hard game especially when we won on over time. Which is when the game is tied and in order to decipher a winner there had to be more time. In the end we won 26 to 24. This month I learned that thinking positively will not only help you feel better but will also help you concentrate and calm down.
by ToTo