Taylor
My First Club Volleyball Game
The gym was getting intense and you could tell. Teams were piling into the 2-court gym. Our team watched as they came into the gym. The other teams all looked good and as they have played together as a team for years. We paraded into the gym looking as ready as ever. We were all there to play and win our games. It was the first tournament of the season.
My first Club Volleyball game was about to happen and I was a nervous wreck!! I had never played in a volleyball game before let alone a Club Volleyball game. I was also in the starting lineup playing middle back, right where every server serves the ball to!! I was shaking like crazy and I am not a relaxed person, so with all the pressure not to miss the ball was building up inside of me. Thoughts were also building up inside my head, “What if I missed the ball? Or what if I let my team down?” Finally it was the first serve of the match. Zoom! The ball was over the net and coming straight at me! I was praying that I would not mess up, but the point was over in a blink of an eye. In a few rotations I was subbed out and my coach told me to calm down and breath. We lost our first game of the season, but that was alright, we had fun playing the game. We lost our second game that day too. Now it was time to play for elimination and if we lost we were done for the day. We played the next game and won! This meant we moved on to the next game and we won that game too!! Yay!! We were finally done for the day!! We got fifth place and that is awesome for us!! Most of my team, including me, were first year players or have never played before, so we rocked by placing for a first time!! At the end of the day we all wanted to go home and sleep! What a workout that day was! Go Club Manteca!!!
A Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride
The 5 cramped hours in the plane were long and boring. Finally we were outside Oahu’s airport and our legs were feeling normal again. We were bused over to budget, our rental car agency. My brother and I were sitting and waiting on the couch in the rental car place, waiting for our rental car. Finally my parents got the keys to the car. I wondered what car would it be, what color would it be, would it have the accessories like a Television?
We started walking to our car and it was spot J16. We approached the J area. I saw a new, black, four door car just like a jeep! I was so excited! The car was a beauty, but then my mom said let’s put the luggage in the trunk. Click! The lights on the next car clicked on and it was this ugly brown car that looked cheap! The black car was in spot J15 not J16. I told my mom that the car was a cheap and ugly. She told me it was a Lincoln town car and it was a luxury car. We got inside and it was cozy and warm. So from then on I said it was ugly on the outside and cozy on the inside. I was just glad we had it for a week! Now we were going to hotel! Little did we know that our short 15 minute drive would turn into a Hawaiian roller coaster ride!
We were in the car pulling out of the budget parking lot and heading to the hotel! We found the first few streets fine. Then this one street my mom took was wrong! The spelling of the street’s name she should have taken was a one letter different than the street she took! My mom turned around and we headed back to the main road, but the street we needed was nowhere in sight!! We drove down the same streets 3-5 times and finally we found the back street to the back of our hotel. Yes, we were finally close to where we needed to be!! It was already an hour of driving around, just trying to find our hotel! It took my mom another 15-30 minutes before she actually found the entrance to our hotel! We drove to a beautiful hotel and as soon as I saw the hotel I could not wait to see the rooms!! Aloha Hawaii!
The gym was getting intense and you could tell. Teams were piling into the 2-court gym. Our team watched as they came into the gym. The other teams all looked good and as they have played together as a team for years. We paraded into the gym looking as ready as ever. We were all there to play and win our games. It was the first tournament of the season.
My first Club Volleyball game was about to happen and I was a nervous wreck!! I had never played in a volleyball game before let alone a Club Volleyball game. I was also in the starting lineup playing middle back, right where every server serves the ball to!! I was shaking like crazy and I am not a relaxed person, so with all the pressure not to miss the ball was building up inside of me. Thoughts were also building up inside my head, “What if I missed the ball? Or what if I let my team down?” Finally it was the first serve of the match. Zoom! The ball was over the net and coming straight at me! I was praying that I would not mess up, but the point was over in a blink of an eye. In a few rotations I was subbed out and my coach told me to calm down and breath. We lost our first game of the season, but that was alright, we had fun playing the game. We lost our second game that day too. Now it was time to play for elimination and if we lost we were done for the day. We played the next game and won! This meant we moved on to the next game and we won that game too!! Yay!! We were finally done for the day!! We got fifth place and that is awesome for us!! Most of my team, including me, were first year players or have never played before, so we rocked by placing for a first time!! At the end of the day we all wanted to go home and sleep! What a workout that day was! Go Club Manteca!!!
A Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride
The 5 cramped hours in the plane were long and boring. Finally we were outside Oahu’s airport and our legs were feeling normal again. We were bused over to budget, our rental car agency. My brother and I were sitting and waiting on the couch in the rental car place, waiting for our rental car. Finally my parents got the keys to the car. I wondered what car would it be, what color would it be, would it have the accessories like a Television?
We started walking to our car and it was spot J16. We approached the J area. I saw a new, black, four door car just like a jeep! I was so excited! The car was a beauty, but then my mom said let’s put the luggage in the trunk. Click! The lights on the next car clicked on and it was this ugly brown car that looked cheap! The black car was in spot J15 not J16. I told my mom that the car was a cheap and ugly. She told me it was a Lincoln town car and it was a luxury car. We got inside and it was cozy and warm. So from then on I said it was ugly on the outside and cozy on the inside. I was just glad we had it for a week! Now we were going to hotel! Little did we know that our short 15 minute drive would turn into a Hawaiian roller coaster ride!
We were in the car pulling out of the budget parking lot and heading to the hotel! We found the first few streets fine. Then this one street my mom took was wrong! The spelling of the street’s name she should have taken was a one letter different than the street she took! My mom turned around and we headed back to the main road, but the street we needed was nowhere in sight!! We drove down the same streets 3-5 times and finally we found the back street to the back of our hotel. Yes, we were finally close to where we needed to be!! It was already an hour of driving around, just trying to find our hotel! It took my mom another 15-30 minutes before she actually found the entrance to our hotel! We drove to a beautiful hotel and as soon as I saw the hotel I could not wait to see the rooms!! Aloha Hawaii!