“Ok, Dhvani slowly step on the ice, and make sure to hold the railing for a little support, but do not depend on it.”
Mentally, I was beaming with excitement but physically my body would not budge off the carpet onto the shiny slippery ice. I wasn't nervous in my mind, although I think that my body was. So I took a deep breath and with my trembling leg I stepped on the ice.
Instantly, my skates were on the ice, and I was standing there holding the railing, not daring to even move a muscle. Although now all the excitement in me had died out and faded away. All I was feeling was nervousness. The nervousness that I would slip any second and break a bone or two. I was about to come back on the carpet when I heard my instructor say...
“Come on what are you thinking, you can do this it’s just like walking, but you
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So my instructor put out some pylons for me, he first showed me what to do and I followed. After 20 minutes I was able to turn in circles and make an infinity sign on the ice. I was having a blast and could not wait for what we would do next. Although sadly the instructor said that that's all we were going to do today and next class we would learn something new.
I wasn’t able to do any of the fancy moves yet, but I did have fun and couldn't wait for my next ice skating class.
By now everyone in my ice skating class had left, and I and some of my other friends were just goofing around and playing on the ice waiting for our parents to come pick us up. That’s when I felt someone’s shoulder bump into mine, which sent me twirling on the spot.
When I finally stopped my instructor caught me before I could fall onto the ice. When I was up and balanced on the ice again everyone started clapping. I was really confused at that moment; I didn't know how to react or what to say so all I did was ask.
“What happened, why are you all
In the movie Crash, directed by Paul Haggis, John Stuart Mill's theories on Social Justice and Utility are depicted within the context of the 20th century. Haggis' representation of a multicultural society is one built on racism and inequality, which limits the social justice people can acquire. In this film prejudice and stereotyping are prevalent when discussing legal rights and moral rights. The social situation has profound impacts on the choices people make. This society's foundation is based on injustice, although in the end, justice is served through the concept of `justice of desert'.
“Just keep on trekking. We’ll get there in time.” I respond with the last breath I have. “We just need to keep on pushing, otherwise we’ll get caught and there’s no way they’re sending us back to that.”
Odysseus was on his way home from the war. It would take Odysseus 10 years to travel back to his homeland of Ithaca. On his way to home he encounters the island of the Cyclopes. When he’s on the island of Cyclops he becomes clever.
My tired feet were raw and bleeding, and I could feel the sweat gleaming on my face and back begin to turn cold. I had just finished my third and last ballet class of the night. It
As I got ready to run, and jump off, Alyssa began to chant a count down, “5, 4,3,2,1!” I took a big gulp and started to charge forward I stopped just before I had to jump off. "I can't do it" I thought to myself. I couldn’t get over the fear of getting hurt. I’ve seen videos where a person cliff jumping landed in the water the wrong way, and got severely hurt. I just kept replaying that same video over, and over in my head. “Take a deep breathe, take a few steps back, and run and jump,” Alyssa shouted. “There's only one way down,” she said. I began to start taking slow steps back inhaling and exhaling. She suddenly began to chant again, I put myself in ready position “3, 2,1!”. “I’m just going to do it I'm not even going to think about it” I thought to myself. “Go!” she
As I ran towards my teammate the wind blew against my face. I had a steady pace and as I threw the ball towards her my stomach felt completely empty, my heart started to beat like I was sitting on a roller coaster, and my legs started to tremble. She hit the ball from the back of her lacrosse stick and BAM!
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
I was the last girl to walk on the floor and hit my starting spot. I felt a wave of heat as I walked into the
My heart was pounding like an elephant walking as I waited in line, although I wasn’t even really that nervous. In my head I knew it was going to be hard to make the team as a 6th grader I think that’s why I didn't get myself all worked up about it and nervous because there was a 50% chance of me making the team. In my head, I said to myself that I would love to make the team.
Me and my team sprinted onto the smooth shiny ice. We all immediately started warm ups because we only had 3 minutes.
Then my heart was beating more than 20 miles per hour. I went off to do my last tumbling pass, I did a roundoff back-handspring layout-full. In my head i was saying “C’mon stick it!” Then when I finally hit the floor, my feet gently met one another and the floor, my feet did not move one inch . I did not believe it, I had
Failing can happen with whatever, whether it's riding a bike, taking a test, talking to people, or just plain walking. The importance of failing is that the lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. My people will tell stories on how they failed at something and then were able to improve from that. Well here's my story.
Thinking back through my many years of hockey, many good and bad memories come to my mind. The first story was of me getting knocked over, keep in mind I don’t have a major recollection of this story besides the main parts because heck I was five. I was started skated at the age of four, according to my father, I was a pretty good skater. After a year or so of skating, I was skating at the arena and got knocked over by a high school player. After that moment I didn’t try skating again for years, but the love of the game ran through the blood of my family and me. Hockey called to me, and it would not be the last time I laced up a pair of skates.
We landed our axel and a new jump consistently, and a bliss came over us. Joy filled our bones and we finally felt free from the weight that was once upon us; however, two or so weeks later we lost both jumps and thus the longing to try again. We could feel the disappointment growing in our parents’ and coach’s faces. Heaviness grew upon us every time we stepped a foot into that ice rink, it was time to move on.
As we all headed outside to the football stadium, tension started to come through my whole body. My legs felt stiff and my hands felt as if water was running through my fingers. I was not prepared to walk across the stage. We practiced hundreds of times that morning but, it was just too hot to concentrate on what we were told to be doing. So much was going through my mind like, “What if I trip as I walk across the stage?” “Who all from my family is here?” “What am I going to eat afterwards?” I was starving because I had not eaten since 8:00 that morning. I stepped a foot onto the track circle and images went through my mind. Drops of sweat ran down my face and I tried not to look at the audience to keep myself from getting more nervous. As we stepped