GP soccer tryouts, shopping, athletic field day, and... Thanksgiving?

A lot has happened in the last two weeks, and it started with school soccer tryouts. There were only going to be two of them, and practices were on Tuesday and Thursday. Unfortunately, the coach that the school found cancelled the day before the first tryout, so the athletic director showed up with the coach of the high school team, and they just had us do these very basic drills and then scrimmage at the end.

 Even though I did not think it could get much worse because the athletic director knew nothing about soccer, it did. They had found a coach to come out and see who should be on the A Team or the B Team. He had a very strong accent and you could barely understand him, and he seemed to have this vision that we were all star soccer players. For example: he put us in a very small area and split us up into teams, then told us that we needed to play two touch possession when some kids can barely make a pass. He also said that if you can not juggle the ball 20 times in a row, you should not be on the A Team. I got to 82, and the kid next to me tried to brag to the coach that he beat his record and got 6.

 Another problem is that most of the kids are really out of shape. After playing on a club team with kids that are two years older than me, I usually come in last place on things like sprints or field runs. Now, I am running with kids that are about my age and do not even play sports, so I get to come in first every time! Same with strength. When the coach told us to do twenty push ups, one kid was panting when he got to three. It was pretty pathetic. Long story short, I got on the A Team with a few of the other seventh graders, sixth graders, and a couple of the eight graders.

 The next thing that happened this week was that my mom decided that we needed to have our own Thanksgiving dinner before the real Thanksgiving with the rest of the family. We had the turkey, cranberry sauce mashed potatoes and gravy, on top of everything else. It did feel a bit odd having all of this two weeks before actual Thanksgiving, but we went with it. The next weekend, we had a soccer tournament that my team actually came first place in! We went undefeated, with three wins and a draw!

 The next week did not hold as much excitement, but my school had athletic field day on Friday! They create random groups with kids from every grade from sixth to twelfth, which is not as fun as it may sound. After school though, my friend came home with me and had dinner with us, which was a fun surprise because neither of us knew that it was going to happen until right after school. The weekend held a few events, such as how I had to help out the Anthem team again (see this earlier post!), which was really easy. My friend from my club team also helped out which made it more enjoyable.

 On Sunday, nothing happened in the morning but we went to Collin's soccer after lunch. I had missed the last game because I was at my soccer tournament, but there were two new kids there that had joined the team when I was gone. They seemed to have enjoyed the first week of soccer so much that they came back this week with new Adidas flats! After, Collin went home with Isabelle and my dad and I went to the mall to look for things to ask for for Christmas.

 I thought it was early, but mom said she needed to tell people what I wanted for Christmas when they asked. First, we went to Soccer Post, which is a family run soccer store where I was going to look for new shin guards. Turns out, they are closed on Sunday! When we went to the mall, there were all sorts of cool things to get. I found a pair of Nike running shoes that were made of flynit, a decently priced drone at the remote control store, and a penny board in the skate shop! Unfortunately, we had to end the day with going to Macy's to buy jeans. (Boring).

 We went home to eat dinner after that, and then rested up for another school/work week. (Which will be shortened due to Thanksgiving!) Thanks for reading and tune in next week on TBB!