the first week of school is over.
my schedule:
1 - Ceramics 1
2 - Ceramics 1
3 - Foods & Nutrition
4 - Foods & Nutrition
5 - Physics
6 - AP Government
7 - lunch
8 - College Review Math
9 - Spanish 4
senior year is going great! i don't mind waking up at 5:30 in the morning. i actually like sitting in class for 7 hours a day. i've been extremely happy. i feel like i can do whatever i want. sure, i answered one question right on the Physics pre-test (it was how to find perimeter), that i struggled with adding/subtracting fractions in college review math, and the row i where i sit in AP Gov is labeled "the dumb row," but so far, school has been, well, fun. (that made me sound a lot dumber than i actually am. for the record, i am somewhat smart, ha.) i'm in charge of the Battle of the Sexes for Homecoming week. in fact, i already know who i'm going to Homecoming with and what we're dressing up as (this year's theme is Couples of the Past & Present). our first soccer game went horribly, and i really want to punch some of the punkass kids on the team for it. but it's just one loss, and i plan on winning the rest of the games this year.
so there's a quick update. i promise i'll do more interesting posts in the future, ha.

also - does anyone have any ideas for a saying to go on the back of the guys' version of the Battle of the Sexes t-shirt? the girls already took "girls rule, boys drool."

peace & latadays.

"Get up, Sean!" i yelled. he had sat down. on the field, in the middle of a game. as a captain, it's my duty to make sure that everyone is working their hardest and pushing themselves. plus, this is a varsity team. there is no sitting down on the field. ever. it's that simple. i was already irritated with him during this game. he was playing right back. i was sweeper. yet he was constantly in the center, literally right next to me. he left the right side wide open numerous times for through balls and even easy, quick passes.

this was the Bloom Carroll preview. 3 50-minute games played back to back to back. we had just enough players for a team, so there were no subs. considering it was in the upper 80's temperature-wise, that was a major factor in how we performed. basically, we played soccer for 2 1/2 hours straight. needless to say, i could understand why Sean sat down. by the final minutes of the third and final game, everyone on both teams were extremely hot, battered, and tired. we ended up winning our first game, and losing the second and third. not to sound like i'm making up excuses, but because the other teams could sub out their entire team, and we couldn't sub at all, i was pretty proud of myself and my team.

we saw what we needed to work on for our upcoming season - communication (on and off the field), give-and-go's, and a lot more 1-2 passes. and overall, this was a tremendous learning experience. not only that, but there were some highlights (at least, for me):

- the Vietnamese ref. i think he was Vietnamese, i can't remember where he told me he was from, i was kind of distracted by something (# 19!) seriously though, this guy cracked me up. every time our offense would have the ball, he would talk to me and tell me what we should do and we got a few awesome plays off his thoughts. not to mention when the captains of each team were introducing each other and picking sides, he told us that we would win, and that the other team would lose. "maybe you guys will win next year, but these guys are winning today." i thought that was the best thing he said, haha.
- playing Madison Christian. these guys are my favorite team we've played so far. first off, pretty much all of them were hot. second, when i talked to them, they actually talked back. unlike the other teams who just kind of grunted and nodded.
-oh yeah, and Madison Christian also had another big plus. #19. he was a captain, and i forget his name when he introduced himself to us, but i do remember how good-looking the kid was, haha. tall, muscular (not your typical soccer build. he looked more like a gridiron player), and just all around attractive, hah. definitely my type of guy. but y'know, it's all good.

we'll see how our soccer season goes. hopefully no fights like last year (one of our players beat the shit out of another kid), and that we make it to playoffs.

peace & latadays.