The Best Game Ever

Author's Note: I decided to write this for my personal narrative because I think that it is such an amazing thing that happened to me and I just couldn't believe it.

"There is only one minute left on the court that we are playing on" said my coach. I could feel the butterflies coming. We walked up to the bench and set our bags down. "Start warming up" my coach said. I grabbed a ball and looked up at the scoreboard, we only had a minute and thirty seconds to warm up. My whole team was freaking out. My coach said "bring it in." He gave us a little pep talk before the game to help us boost up our confidence. As he was giving his pep talk I was thinking to myself, if we work together we can accomplish a lot. 

We started heading out onto the court. The game we have all been waiting for was just about to begin. We got into our spots, the girl I was jumping against was really tall. The ref threw the ball in the air; the other girl ended up winning the tip. The Sun Prairie Devils brought up the ball. We got matched up and made the other team turn the ball over, MacKenzie had a fast break, she sprinted down the court for a lap-up. Once we got the game started I could tell all of our stomachs had settled and we were playing like our regular selves. The score was 9 to 8; there was 6 seconds left of the first half. We had the ball, MacKenzie pushed the ball up the court, she passed me the ball for a three, everyone was yelling hurry shoot. I shot the ball and to my surprise I swooshed it. 

It was half time and we were up by 4. We had approximately 10 minutes for half time. My coach pulled us out into the hallway, of course he had to give a lecture about everything he saw us do wrong, but that is what a coach is supposed to do; it makes you better. He was just talking to us about how we have to keep the lead and we can't let them get back into the game. The buzzer went off and we jogged back into the gym onto the court. 

I took the ball out of bounds and passed it to MacKenzie. She started dribbling up the court, we were trying to stall so that the other team couldn't get the ball. After a while the other team finally took a foul. They had six fouls against us, so we were in bonus. I had to shoot two free-throws, I'm not the best at free-throws so I ended up missing both of them. They started bringing the ball up the court, we were only up by four with 1 minute left. You could tell the other team was desperate for points. One of girls from the other team chucked up a three and it banked in. Of course our luck ran out, when the girl was shooting one of our girls fouled her. She ended up tying the game. There was only about six seconds left when we were bringing the ball up the court. They fouled Claire. Claire was one of the better free-throw shooters, although this crowd was really annoying she couldn't focus enough. Lucky for us there was one girl from the other team who hit the ball out of bounds. There was one second left, our coach called a time-out. He made a play; I was freaking out though because the play was for me. It was called Dells. I ended up being wide open. Sky passed me the ball...

“Shoot the ball,” the crowd yelled. Swoosh, the ball went through the net. We just won the championship game! My team and I sprinted and huddled together. We were jumping up and down filled with excitement. Afterwards we went to Culver's to celebrate the big victory.  I guess it really is true, if you work together you can accomplish a lot. 

Heaven is for real

Author's Note: Make sure to pay attention to how old this boy is and had to go through such a difficult time. 

Heaven is for Real is about a 4 year old boy who has basically been to heaven and back. The little boy's appendix irrupted, when his parents found out they rushed him to the hospital to get the "poison" out of him. While they were operating on him; he was visiting heaven. They got the poison out of his little body and he was back from heaven.

The Best Day Ever

Author's Note: For my DWA I chose to write about a family trip to Six Flags Great America. I chose this because spending time with family is important to me.

It was a hot and sunny day. My family and I were on our way to Six Flags Great America. We were taking two cars; I was in the one with all my cousins and my aunts. On the way up we were jamming out to music, laughing, and having a good time. It was a long ride, you could tell my aunt’s were getting annoyed very easily. We were having such a good time that we didn’t even notice the two hour long drive. It felt like a thirty minute drive. I guess it’s true, when your having a good time; time flies by.

It was almost 9:50 a.m. when we arrived at the park. The park officially opened at 10:00 a.m. and everyone was so excited to be there and couldn’t wait to get on some rides. The other car pulled up next to us, they got out and we headed toward the entrance. As soon as we paid for the tickets and got in, we got a map and headed to the closest territory; which was the Southwest. Raging Bull -which by the way is one of my favorite rides- is in that part. We hit five rides by the time the clock struck 11:30. Usually we only get to two or three rides in that time. I could tell that it was going to be a good day, and we would get to a lot of rides.

As we were in line for the Raging Bull, we saw what I thought was really cool, a man was 221 feet in the air fixing the Giant Drop. He was just dangling there in a harness that I thought could break at any moment. Since the wait for the Bull was only fifteen minutes, I didn’t get to explore what had actually happened to the Giant Drop. After we hit the Raging Bull for the second time we headed to the food market to get some lunch. Everyone was so hungry, you could tell since our food was gone within ten minutes. As I looked at my phone to check the time, it said 1:30. I couldn’t wait to get on more rides and enjoy the cool breeze blowing against my face.

We started walking toward Superman, one of my favorite rides. As we approached the ride, I noticed something wrong with the it… the ride had been broken down, and the sign said RIDE BROKEN DOWN WILL BE BACK UP AND RUNNING IN 30 MINUTES. I was so angry that it was broken down, I should have guessed that it would have broken down at least once today; it is always breaking down. So we decided to head to a different roller coaster. The closest one to Superman was V2 also known as Vertical Velocity. After waiting in a huge line for about forty-five minutes, it was our turn to get on the ride. The ride is only about thirty seconds long, so we waited forty-five minutes for a thirty second long ride. That ride was pointless but the next ride we were going to hit was Batman, to me this is the coolest ride to wait in line for, because you go through an underground tunnel and you literally feel like you are Batman on your way to save someone. The ground even makes noises. Also there is a scene where there is a Police car that has crashed into a fire hydrant and there are bullet holes in the car, and it is like a investigation scene and then out of nowhere the rides goes right above the police. Three hours and ten minutes later, it was almost Six o’clock, since the park closes at Ten we had to get moving to more rides. X-FLIGHT is one of the new rides that came out this year, surprisingly there was only a fifteen minute wait. As we were in line we were getting situated. Mostly who was going to ride with who, and what wing were u going to ride on, the left or the right. We got everything in order just at the time where u get separated for the left or the right wing. We got comfy in our seats and we took off. I can honestly say that X-FLIGHT is now on my list for my favorite rides.

We got to ride a few more roller coaster but sadly it was time to leave after that. It was  time to go home and the ride home felt the exact same, except that everyone except my aunt was sleeping. Today to me felt like the time just flew by, well if you’re having a good time; time flies by.

Role Model

Author’s Note: My sister is like my best friend, she would do just about anything for me. I chose to write about her because she is my role model. When I grow up I want to be just like her. I love to play basketball and she was an amazing player. 

Janelle is my older sister, my role model, and my best friend. If anything were to happen to her, I would go bezerk. Honestly I love her so much if she were to get hurt really bad, I would want to be by her side every hour of everyday. I think to myself everyday what would’ve happened if Janelle was never born, I don’t think that I would have a very good role model. Even though Janelle is 9 years older than me, she treats me like we are the same age. She treats me as if I were her best friend. We do a lot of things together, and we love doing them together. Truthfully I have another sister, but she is nice to me only sometimes. 

This summer my sister is coaching my AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) basketball team. I like it because, first of all she is my sister, second of all she lets me have more playing time, and third of all she makes it a memory to remember. I would honestly not being doing CBA (coaches basketball association) if Janelle was not the coach. Here’s the catch though, there is another team (kinda like a A and B team) and the coach of that team is Taylor Jannsen. Taylor is one of Janelle’s best friends, and for some tournaments I have to play with Taylor’s team (not as fun as it might sound.) If you were in my position you wouldn’t be happy if your sister (favorite person in the world) wasn’t with you. Janelle has always been there for me though, through thick and thin.

Facts about Janelle:
Favorite color: blue
Favorite Foods: pizza, ice-cream and steak
Favorite Sport: basketball
Hair color: bleach blonde
Height: 5’ 9”
Eye Color: Hazel
Other interesting facts: wears glasses, never broken a bone and had stitches 3 times.

Not So Funny

Author’s Note: Today was Shelby’s choice for what we were going to write about. She was kind of panicking in a way...but she was able to pick one...at the end of class, so we had no class time to work on it.

I remember this one time when I was about 10 years old and I got into a car crash with my mom and grandma. It was the most scariest thing that ever happened to me. I honestly was more scared for my grandma than I was about me... my grandma is 75 years old and she was sitting in the front of the car. What happened was my mom, grandma and I were driving back from a cookie party in Illinois. It was during winter and it was really slippery and icy. The cars in front of us was slipping all over the place... I had a bad feeling about driving so fast on the highway with the weather being like that. There was this one patch of ice across all of the lanes, once we got up to that spot I knew we were going to end up somewhere but going straight. In the end we ended up facing the other way that we were supposed to be going... my mom’s car was totalled, and we had to get a ride home from airway (a van that takes people home who don’t have a car.)

Blueberry

Author’s Note: The topic chosen for today was Goldfish, we have a routine where someone picks a topic for the day and then the next someone else picks the topic... today was claire’s choose. I like the topic but I think that we need to take some time to think about what we pick.

Splish, Splash, the goldfish was taking a bath... Blueberry is my goldfish and she is a beta fish. I chose to name her blueberry because she looked like a blueberry (color wise.) Blueberry was the best fish I ever had... the sad thing is though... is that she only lived to be 2 years. The thing about beta fish is that if you have any other fish and you put the beta with say a guppy, there will be a little chance that the guppy will survive. I had many different fish in my lifetime so far and blueberry was the best. When she died I kind of flipped out. I really loved blueberry, she felt like she was my daughter...(just joking) Honestly I loved blueberry and that is that.

The Time Of Your Life

The time of your life

Author’s Note: The topic that we chose to write about was vacation...I never go on vacation unless we win the lottery (which never happened or will happen.) I liked this topic because I can dream about going on a nice vacation.

Kids at my school wait for this all year round. I know I do... the only vacations that I get are the ones
that the school gives to us. While my friends are going to Florida for no reason and are missing school... I have to sit in my class alone with no one to talk to. Vacation can be special or they can be horrific. It can be special if you are like on a honeymoon, or it can be horrific because you might have to be sent away somewhere that you don’t want to go. Although everyone thinks that vacation is awesome...is it really all that amazing?