I made the basketball team! I've acheive one of my main goals that I set at the beginning of my junior year. I have been training for playing basketball since before last season started and I may even start in a game tomorrow. I'm very excited about being a senior on the team and getting to lead my team through all the struggles that we will face this season. I'm continuing to push myself in practice because working even on fundamentals to the best of my ability will improve me as a player and allow me to be a better leader. I still have a lot to work on.
A big event happened at Pedro in the last few weeks. We had an invisible children assembly and our entire class worked as a team helped spread the word about invisible children and the organization's goals to help kids and refugees in Africa. Together our class organized many students from our school to ensure that we could fit as many people into the assembly as possible. After the assemblies we put together a huge lunch for the invisible children roadies and ate with them and asked them many questions. There was a woman from Uganda with the invisible children speakers and it was very interesting to hear what she said its like in Africa. Later in the year a teacher from Uganda will be coming to learn about the education system here in the US and she will be in some of our classes. The whole presentation and getting to talk to the speakers was inspiring and I can not wait untill we get a teacher from Uganda comes.
Other than that I am still tutoring some of my fellow students. I do not have the time for helping students in the library after school but whenever we have late practice in basketball I help the other players on the JV and Varsity with their homework. I have the skill of basketball and I like helping people learn so I do both as much as I can and it will help my team because the students stuggleing in school will not be troubled by the possibliity of loosing egibility in sports.
Over the thanksgiving break I got to water ski again and hopefully it will not be the last time this season, although the water was very cold. It was nice to find out that all the effort I put into learning over the summer was not wasted because even though I had not skiied in a while it felt just like I was riding a bike. I got up out of the water right away and skiied like a champ!
Back in october the lipdub was a success. I was one of the ones organizing the gym and it was pretty hard to keep the sports teams organized because we had to take several takes. I hope the videos turn out good.
