Friday, February 29, 2008
GOing to AZ
To start off leaving the Island was a big step for me. Because I was going to join the NAU soccer team, we had to come up a little earlier than the rest of the students, this not only took away part of my summer, it meant catching three different flights to get to my final destination, Flagstaff. Well actually it was two, because my flight from Phoenix to Flagstaff got canceled; so instead I had to bus it up which meant me arriving in Flagstaff at 1:00 am. After that I got picked up by my future teammates, whom which I had never spoken to ever in my life, and having to stay at their house for three days was difficult for me. Difficult, because I was mostly homesick and the idea of me being on my own scared me; like I always knew I would go away for school but it doesn't really get to you till that time comes. Well the day of our fitness test came along and we were expected to pass all of it. Our first one was five 120 shuttles in 45 sec. and the second one was the beep test up to level twelve. Well lets just say I pretty much bombed it!.. I only made three of the shuttle runs within the expected time and as for the beep test I only got up to level FIVE! Thats like ...really bad. But after all only one person passed both tests!
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
INTRO
Today is February 19, 2008.
At this very second I'm sitting in English 105, trying to create a blog. I don't know much about blogs and haven't really read or payed attention to these types of sites. So when presented with this assignment I wasn't quite sure what my blog would be about.
Eventually I chose to write about growing up in Hawaii and the transition to Arizona. I thought that this would be interesting because I'm coming from a place that's surrounded by water and lots of warm weather, to a place that's land locked and actually has distinct seasons.
So to start off growing up in Hawaii was pretty much like a permanent vacation. If I felt like going to the beach, at most it was about a 20 minute drive to the nearest beach. If I felt like getting a tan, any day of the year I could just lay out in my yard to soak up the sun. From kindergarden to fifth grade I went to an Public school near my house called Mililani Elementary School, from sixth to twelfth grade I went to a private school called Mid-Pacific Institute. For the most part I played sports most of my life mainly soccer and softball. For seventeen years this was the way of life that I knew of, family, school, sports and the beach, and so this transition from my safety net, the "Rock" to a place with I had never been before, I knew was going to be a challenge for me.
At this very second I'm sitting in English 105, trying to create a blog. I don't know much about blogs and haven't really read or payed attention to these types of sites. So when presented with this assignment I wasn't quite sure what my blog would be about.
Eventually I chose to write about growing up in Hawaii and the transition to Arizona. I thought that this would be interesting because I'm coming from a place that's surrounded by water and lots of warm weather, to a place that's land locked and actually has distinct seasons.
So to start off growing up in Hawaii was pretty much like a permanent vacation. If I felt like going to the beach, at most it was about a 20 minute drive to the nearest beach. If I felt like getting a tan, any day of the year I could just lay out in my yard to soak up the sun. From kindergarden to fifth grade I went to an Public school near my house called Mililani Elementary School, from sixth to twelfth grade I went to a private school called Mid-Pacific Institute. For the most part I played sports most of my life mainly soccer and softball. For seventeen years this was the way of life that I knew of, family, school, sports and the beach, and so this transition from my safety net, the "Rock" to a place with I had never been before, I knew was going to be a challenge for me.
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