SPORTS…

Finally the end of the year, everyone has been waiting for this time. It’s everywhere, agendas, calendar, and Mrs. Obannon’s board, everywhere!!! This was our last year in the middle school and I think that it has been unforgettable. Unforgettable because every single person in the grade has made it incredible. In aim, everyone is waiting for the day, the graduation day, Wednesday 11th. During this weeks, we have been working really hard to give in projects, movies, get good grades on our last tests, quizzes or home-works. Not only in projects, tests or home-works, but also in P.E and conduct to get our citizen sheet or awards. Anyways I’m anxious to finish 8th grade, graduate, go to vacations and not to do anything that has to do with school.  

About a month ago Mr. G, took some pictures for the graduation, the pictures were to post and decorate the place of the party. We were all very happy for the pictures, we were jumping, laughing, and enjoying the moment. After the pictures we have also been doing some other activities to plan the party and the ceremony. For example the speech we would give out in the ceremony, who are we going to walk trough the stage, meetings in the high school, so we have an idea of who is it going to be next year. But what I’m most excited about is the graduation party. It’s going to be in the Real Continental Hotel, all decorated, and I guess our pictures will be there. We were also planning on doing an after party, but Ale, how has the PERFECT house for it, doesn’t want to do it there so we have a BIG problem. Another reason why I want to be over with school is, vacations!!! I’m desperate to see my family, my friends back in Mexico, and not being so stressed for school. But I guess I will also miss all of my friends, and much more the one who are leaving CDS. 

Like I told you in my last blog, my class and I went to celebrate the end of 8^th grade in Manuel Antonio, a beach located in Costa Rica. On the last day of our trip, we were going to do our community service work which was cleaning the national park.  We were split into groups depending on our room numbers. From room number 1 to 7 (community service group) , and from room number 7 to 14 (beach group). I was in room number 1 so I got the best group, again. Group number one was the best group because of the people in it, and because we got to do the hard work first and then we could relax at the beach. The teachers were giving us the instructions about how to clean the paths, who our partners would be, and the rakes. Daichi was my partner, and I was happy to be with him because he´s a really nice guy. On the other hand I wasn’t happy AT ALL because we had to walk 1km. OK?!?! One whole kilometer with the sun burning hot!!! I finished my water before we got to the ¨cleaning¨ place. I was sooooo thirsty the whole time we were cleaning. Besides I was playing/fighting with Antonio, like always, which made me even thirstier.  The work we had to do was to clean the leaves off the path, so the people could walk easily through the park. As the time passed I was getting more and more tired, thirsty, sweaty, hot, and mad. Why mad? Because the  teachers wouldn’t let us stop cleaning, not even for a minute. I was dying to stop and go to the sea to cool off. Finally Gabriela, one of the staff members, yelled out that we had three minutes left. Still we couldn’t take a break. 10..9..8..7..6..5..4..3..2..1…TIMEE!!!! The first thing we did was run to the beach, that’s when our energy came back. While we were running, Mr. Katz stopped us because Lee, one of my classmates, was dehydrated and we had to wait for him. We gave him water, but he wouldn’t drink any. So we had to carry him up to the beach and as soon as we got there, he fell asleep. Honestly we were more anxious to jump in the water than wait for Lee to wake-up. (Lee, if you are reading this, sorry, but we were REALLY hot.) WOOW I was floating in water, fresh water. It felt so good just laying in the cold water with my friends around. As soon as everyone caught their breath again, we started doing body surf, talking, playing, and watching poor Lee not having fun. Now that I think about it poor Lee, seriously, he didn’t get the chance to feel how refreshing the ocean was or to be with his friends in the ocean. I believe fun moments with friends only happen once in a life time. And Lee was sleeping the whole time. While my friends and I were swimming Mr. Katz called us to go walk in the big rocks that were everywhere. Obviously as soon as Mr. Katz told us, I wanted to try. I went on top of the rock, unfortunately it was really really sharp, so my feet were hurting. All my friends were screaming and I didn’t understand why, as soon as I looked back a big wave was coming. I thought that if i stayed there I would end up all injured and it would hurt a lot, so I decided to jump. Hmm, for my bad luck it didn’t work. I fell into another rock and it hurt even worst because I was jumping so I landed harder. I was bleeding but I didn’t care anymore and I decided to keep playing with my friends. This one and a half hours passed so fast! And soon we had to get back to the hotel, get ready and go back to the school. =(

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Normally every Wednesday I get excited about writing my blogs. I love telling people how I feel about my passions and I love to think about it. Today is not one of those Wednesdays, and sincerely I still don´t know what I´m going to talk about. I´m going to go to a hip-hop seminar on Friday and I´m going to talk about it next week, so there goes another topic, one that I can´t write about today. I´ve already talked about soccer, ice-skating, and hip-hop. Now there´s another problem, my teacher told me that this blog had to be above 300 words, and if I don´t have anything to write about, how will I reach 300 words? Here I stopped for about a minute to come up with a good idea. I thought about erasing everything and starting over because why would I want people to know I don´t have any good ideas? But still I kept thinking and writing in the same blog. Finally I decided to talk about something I could consider a passion. I think it would be a good idea to tell my friends and people that find our bloggings how much I enjoy spending the day with all of my friends. They might say I´m really wierd but the truth is that when I´m with them I have a lot of fun. My day starts with Math class, I don´t really like the class, but what I like about it is how much fun we have in it. For example, three of my friends sit right behind me and they are always either talking , shouting, hitting each other or laughing. On the other side of the classroom is where the boys sit. There is this guy who is ALWAYS bothering EVERYONE, but its fun how he tells his funny and stupid jokes. When Math class is over, I go to History. My History teacher is really cool and he makes the class really happy. I alway sit with one of my friends, we talk and talk until Mr. Katz, my teacher, yells at us. Then comes break. I love when the bell rings because I´m normally starving and that´s when I get to eat. (I just realized that I have 370 words). Now comes english class. In this class I can´t really have that much fun becuase my teacher gave us assigned seats =(, but as soon as english class is over I have spanish and it´s one of the best classes. In this class we don´t have assign seats so I get to seat with whomever I want. There´s none of my girlfriends in my spanish class, but there are two really cool guys that I like to sit by. They are always telling jokes and they are really cool friends. After my spanish class I have Arts Blocks and then recess. Recess is my favorite hour in the day because there’s when I can be with most of my friends, talk, and laugh with all of them. I enjoy every second of it. When the bell rings I have reading time, but I can’t do much because my teacher don’t let us talk, just read. After reading time I have Literature, which is fun, especially this week; our class was working on the “Lord of the Flies” and we had to design the t-hsirts according with the story. Last class, Science which is really fun because my friends and I are always talking and laughing about ANYTHING, especially when we do labs or when we have free time. I could really consider spending times with my friends a passion because I enjoy being with them so much.  

For me, freedom is expressing, saying, and doing what ever I want. As a blogger, freedom is something different. Freedom is posting or publishing what I think on the Internet. In this case of my English class, it means writing about my passions. I think there are so many definitions for freedom. For example, when you talk about the amendments to the constitution, there is freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of press etc.. When you talk about food, for example there is sugar free candy, fat free, lactose free and more. Another example of freedom is when you are in jail and don’t have freedom or you loose your freedom. Or when you are grounded because you either got bad grades, or did something bad, you also loose your freedom.When You use  your freedom of speech, you are saying what you think without anyone judging you, or telling you what is right or wrong. But you don’t always have freedom of speech; in school is where you have less freedom of speech, I think,  you can’t say wether you don’t like a teacher, or wear the clothes you want. So I think freedom of speech is saying whatever you want, and not being controlled by anyone else.

1. My name is Maria Jose, but most people call me Majo. The reason I´m writing this blog is because my English teacher gave us an assigment to write about our passion. I enjoy a lot of things, but I would say that sports are what I´m passionate about . Every time I play any sport I like, I feel some kind of emotion, or satisfaction inside of myself. Every time I feel stressed out, I start playing with a soccer ball or anything that makes me move around and I get rid of all my stress.

 When I lived in Mexico I ice-skated every morning before school and after school too. I loved that sport, but when I came to Costa Rica, I couldn’t keep skating because there are no ice-skating rinks. I started playing soccer at school, with the school team, and since that day soccer has been my passion. I played forward for the team and we practiced Wednesdays and Thursdays for an hour an a half. I got really excited about any game that was coming because that was when I actually could prove what I had learned in practice. I stopped  playing soccer for a while because I got tachycardia and the doctor wouldn´t let me play for a while. When I heard this, I was really mad and couldn´t believe I was not going to be able to play sports. Two months later, the doctor tested me again and said that everything was good, that I could start playing sports again, but that i had to be careful about not over exerting myself. Five months ago I heard about this place called Wear-House Dance Center. WDC is a dance studio with a lot of dancing options, but the one I practice is hip-hop. This is one more passion of mine because I like all the cool movements and I like to dance to that type of music. I still enjoy doing every single sport, but I would have to say that dancing, ice-skating, and soccer are my passions.