Personal Narrative: State Track

I walked up to home plate nervous because my grandfather was in the stands watching for the first time, but I took a deep breath, tightened my grip on the bat, and stepped into the batter’s box. The pitcher looked at me and smiled he had to think I was going to be easy, but I wasn’t going to give in without fight. He took a quick glance at the runner on second, and boom the fast ball came in so fast I didn’t even know he threw it. Now I was shaking. The pitcher had the upper hand, but I looked at my dad who with his eyes said to me “you can do this” so once again I took a deep breath, tightened my grip, and stepped back into the batter’s box. The pitcher throws the ball hard as I load up and swing hard, but the ball curves

When I started track and middle I never knew what track was or how it even worked but I needed a sport that I could do. Even though I would have people from my middle school who would try to discourage me from running and even call me slow and the process but I continue to go through with track. But those people that talk and say they were going stay and track but didn't and I stayed and continue running and learn how to use the words they called to me to discourage to fuel my running to where I was winning medals and showing it in school. Then between eight grade to tenth grade I begin to have problem with my hip and which cause me to slow my time down but I still stayed in the sport. Even switching from different high school was tiring

Going into the race I thought I would do great bang the gun went off and I was in the lead, towards the end, I was getting tired then I felt my foot hit the hurdle and I started to fall I felt my hands scrape against the track and I knew it was over! The thing that annoyed me the most was that I was in first place after the first ten hurdles, then on the last one I hit the hurdle with the back of my foot and fell to the track, Bam right on my face! I got up and finished the race and even beat two people across the finish line. I don't mind falling now because I know I can work on that and get better at the 110 meter

I was going to go! I promised myself, and my coach, that I would! I was really sweating, my face was seriously turning red, like I was eating a fireball! All of my teammates and coaches were all staring at me. I was so terrified and I felt like I was in the ocean with sharks surrounding me and going to eat me any second! “OK, this is silly” I told myself. ‘I 'm going for it!” I started to run in very slow motion and sped up, I started putting my hands on the ground and I could just see eyes staring right at me! I began to put my hands back, well they were touching the other side of my body, well very quickly lifting my body up from the ground and…… Finishing!! I could already see my friends coming to me and putting their hands out so give me a REAL BIG HIGH FIVE! Well my coaches were coming right after them! I seriously jumped up and down with the most excitement I’ve ever had! I was trying to get that for years I felt like! And guess what? I did it! Gladly,that was the last rotation before we got to go home! I was so thrilled to tell my mom

This past week would be my fourth time going to anything state. This Tuesday my aunts and a couple of my cousins and I got in the car and drove all the way to Des Moines for the state tournnament. Once we got there we sat down in a good spot it was Hannah, Trey, Kayla, and I. Kayla and Hannah left to go to the bathroom, and it was Trey and I saving the spots. Trey left to go to the bathroom so I was saving the spots. After a little bit Kailyn Erikson and Emma Rissman came and asked me to move, (I thought they wanted to get through) then all of a sudden they sat down. And I said "excuse me these spots are saved" and they said, "not anymore". So when they got back they asked the girls to leave and they said 'We are older so we can sit here".

The coach made us run extra harder, which many people did not enjoy. I ran thinking, if I run hard enough, I will run the greatest 2-mile, the distance we have to run in the league finals, I have ever ran. We would run intervals, 1 lap, 2 laps, 3 laps, 4 laps, and vice versa. We would also run up and down stairs and run track laps until we felt like puking. The week passed by fast as we practiced, and the league finals was just up ahead now. The weekend before the meet, wasn’t much, but for most of the weekend, I had butterflies in my stomach multiplying every second the meet got closer. My dad told me not to worry, which I thought was silly, because this was a huge meet. I got a lot of rest sleeping, and finally, the day had come. The day of the cross country league

He gave me a ball and went to the bat, he was easily the best out there. I threw the ball, then I snickered, “Strike one.” I threw another and, “Strike two.” My last throw, if I didn't make this a good one I could be ruined. I threw it, the ball moving in what seemed like slow motion. It approached his bat, he swung but, “Strike three, your out of here!” He looked at me in complete confusion. Then it had been a few years and I was in high school. I wanted to try out for the baseball team. All the boys were looking at me a few even told me I should just leave. But, I didn’t, I stood there until it was my turn to try out. First, I was pitching. I struck out three of their best batters. I was then up to bat, on the second throw, I hit a home run. They were all in awe. I could see it in their eyes. A few weeks later, they asked me to be on the team. My mom and I were so excited. I started to practice. Every game, I struck out almost everyone. I hit 19 home runs in our 15 games. Everyone loved me. I had little girls ask for my signature. Every year I tried out, I was on the team. Then eventually I graduated. But, we couldn't afford for me to go to collage. One day we got a letter in the

Although I have not thought about how I would stage a play I will give myself a chance to thinking thoroughly about how I would want an audience to receive a piece of work written by the four playwrights we have read this semester. Drawing on Wilson’s famous speech, I have an idea about what I would want. The Ground on Which I Stand is one that acknowledges the amazing playwrights we were able to read this semester. I appreciate what they have given to the world through the stage and in print. There have been plays that I resonated with me and some that were harder to grasp. Many of these playwrights talk about connections and family which is a way that I have connected with the characters. I wouldn't use many of the playwrights as influences

I live in a neighborhood where the neighbors are friendly. My neighborhood itself gets very hectic at times, but that’s just where I live not where I’m from. I am from Kansas City, Missouri, the most craziest city there is. As Ms.Bowman may say Missouri is the “Show Me State.” I used the love being there and I still do love going home and visiting seeing all the familiar faces.

Although it was summer time, we still all sprinted onto the field. The heat was staggering and I was sweating right when I go to the field. It was time to throw a couple of more warm-up pitches. There came the 1st batter out of the dugout, to come and take some warm-up swings. I threw my last warm-up pitch and Grant threw the ball down. As the ball flew over my head, I was in deep thought," I feel confident that I will do great and make corrections if my mechanics start off a little shaky." Then the batter stepped into the batters box. I was anxious to throw the first pitch. Grant gave me the sign: fastball. I wound up, I knew that it was going to be a strike, just how the

I used to live in Nebraska in the country area somewhere between Waverly and Eagle. However that all changed when my dad got a job promotion, along with the promotion came with the requirement of moving to South Dakota, as he would be working in Sioux Falls.

So when I was five my parents took my to a bowling alley for the first time. At first I didn’t like it because I didn’t know how to bowl, and I was really bad at it. But after the second game i was getting the hang of it. I actually started to like bowling. my parents told me that I get my liking in bowling from Aunt Tracy. So everytime my aunt would come in to time we would go bowling. When I got to high school and learned that they had a bowling time. I was so happy and ready to tryout. One day after tryouts my dad took me out to eat and was really happy that i was actually trying out for a team in high school. This was the first time i have ever tried out for a team. so i was hoping that i made it. . During dinner I got an email. when

It was just like every other day. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping playing their songs in harmony. I was at the station drinking my coffee.

When I was about 15, I pursued the art of driving. Before then, I was always super excited for when it was my turn to drive. I would always go sit in our vehicle, pretending that I was driving back and forth to town. So, when I started driving, I learned a lot of things that I didn’t know before and some really surprised me. They helped me and they could also help many other people too. I learned three things when beginning to drive, the rules of the road, how important it is to be a defensive driver, and the key is to have confidence.

On a brief trek to San Francisco a week ago I had an extremely fascinating background with Californian Police and the American method for taking care of auto repairs, particularly auto glass substitution. Driving back to my inn in my companion's advance vehicle, a Police vehicle tailed me into the lodging auto stop probably to check why such a nice looking person like me was driving the auto. What ended up being a standard permit check then turned into a vehicle review which found no other deformity than a chip in the glass windshield. I don't comprehend what happened to the "place where there is the free", the USA is assuredly now a Police State where individuals' development is overwhelming confined by impertinent power. Goodness the Police