I was afraid to start up again with the thought that I would have pain. I wanted to give up but knew I was back to what I have a lot of passion for, swimming. I continued to believe and have faith in myself that I can achieve my goal and get back into swimming. Finally fully recovered, I was back to being able to do what I enjoyed. After swimming about a year after my injury and thinking that I was back to normal, I encountered a second shoulder injury.
So I thought to myself if I don’t make weight coach won’t let me wrestle. Man was I wrong about that. I had to wrestle 160 when I was merely 150, I was an ounce over weight at weigh ins. When it was time for me to meet me opponent my stomach turned inside out and it felt like a colony of butterflies were having a party in my large intestine. When they bell sounded it was go time all the nervousness and getters went away.
Name of Book: Whale Talk Author of Book: Chris Crutcher Name: Date: March 10, 2014 Summary of Book: At Cutter High School there is no swimming pool. This affects the swim team because they have no pool to swim in but there is only one student that can swim on their team. A bunch of students are looked upon as the outcasts that T.J. brings together he calls them "one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath." His goal is that all the members in the group will earn a Cutter High School varsity letter. T.J. faces angry opposition from the athletic advisors, and he and his coach spend lots of time throughout the season going through the politics of high school athletics.
A boy of approximately 11 years stated, “As long as you’re not afraid of the water, you’re cool. If you can swim real fast that makes you popular. But, no matter what, if you are caught wearing underwear [Speedo] you’re a sissy and no one likes to be around that.” As I looked around, I noticed all the boys wearing trunk-style swimming suits and realized peer pressure is still influencing the actions of pre-teens today as much as it was 10 years ago when I went through the young stage. If I was caught wearing a Speedo by my peers during adolescence, it would have been the end of my popularity too! Between the hours of 3:00 pm and 4:00 pm the YMCA experiences a surge in pool activity.
What caused these women to be in this life boat fighting for their life? How are these women fighting for survival? What will be the outcome of this journey? What caused these women to be in this life boat fighting for their life? Still both mourning and celebrating her heroic husband’s death, Editha was on
I felt as thought I had last more then just my arm, I thought that my hopes and dreams to become a pro-surfer and adventure the world were stripped away. At first I was hesitant about everything but I was mainly just scared. I was scared that I was never going to be able to get back on my board and surf. I was terrified of sharks as you would imagine, but I was more afraid of not ever being able to surf ever again. Some days I would come out of the water crying, but I just kept at it.
On some days, we would miss practices and then showed up for basketball meets. Therefore, our coach was fed up and decided not to enter us in the middle school county championship. I was pissed at Coach Ross at the time, but when I think about it now, he made the right decision to not enter us. That is when I learned that if you going to play sports, you must have commitment. You must be focused on your goals instead of other things that don’t concern your sweat and hard
I felt that the only way to prove this guys wrong was to win against him, so I accepted his challenge. We planned to play a week after I accepted his challenge. The whole week everyone was telling me that I cannot beat him, and he was going to destroy me. Then the game day came , we played at the local YMCA for a game to 21. the game was close, but at the end I pulled out the victory. An example of this would be like the kid who was in a car accident.
He would make comments like, "Do you want to be different from everybody else when you start school?" (601). In all reality Brother was embarrassed to have a younger brother who was incapable of doing activities that other kids his age could do. As summer came to a close the hard work increased even more. Brother made him "swim until he turned blue, row until he couldn't lift an our" and made him rush wherever they went so "his face turned red and his eyes became glazed."
Because of the injury I will never run, surf, stand for longer than 10 minutes, or hike again. These use to be my favorite things to do but the outcome far outweighs what would of happened if the clerk would of just filed my shot records correctly. Because of this injury it has saved my life a couple of times that I know of. The day I had my hip replacement surgery is the day that my unit left for Iraq. Of course I was upset to not be able to go and be with my brothers and sisters but the injury held me back and that’s life not much I could do about it.