Me and Sports

Last night I went clogging with my Sunday school teacher/friend, Sandy. (I didn't dance with them, obviously, because they're at the end of the year. I just watched.) Clogging is like a mixture of an Irish dance and tap dancing. I got some videos of them clogging with my camera, but my battery went dead and I was not happy.

She's trying to get me hooked so that I'll take the beginner's class in the fall. It looked fun, and I want to do it, but I want to do it with someone so that I'll know someone there. And she'll be in the Basic Intermediate. I didn't know there was more than one class. I thought, if you take the Beginner's once there, you just take it again and they teach you a few new things besides. But they have more than one class.

I was getting exhausted just watching them. "1, 2, basic step go!" "1, 2, a rocking chair go!" "1, 2, heart step go!" Something like that. Over and over. They would practice a step (which would require a series of taps, maybe mixed with a swinging of the legs or maybe the Grapevine), then several steps together. "4 basic steps, a heart step, 2 fancy [something], 2 basic steps, and repeat." Or something like that. There was one kind of move called fancy something (in the "quote" I put "something" in brackets because she didn't say that, I just can't remember what it's called). Then she would play a song, and call out the moves while they danced. Sister Sandy (No, she's NOT a nun, that's just what our church calls the women. Yup, men are "Brother.) said it's great exercise.

Maybe I should do it. I don't get much exercise. Yesterday I vowed to not have any dessert today, because I had a brownie after supper and you know I had a Blizzard before that, which is like a bowl of ice cream times 10. Okay, maybe two-and-a-half, but it's still a lot. So this morning I got up, and played Wii Fit Plus for over an hour. I burned 159 calories on the plus side. Like I said, I don't get much exercise.

I've never really been involved in sports. In kindergarten-2nd grade, I played soccer. Kind of. It was more of a social thing for me. I would run with all the other kids, not really going for the ball much, just running behind them/with them. There would be another person in the back, running with me (from the other team), who I would make friends with. "Hi, I'm Kaytlan." "I'm Sarah." Her jersey color is cooler than mine. The snacks were fun, though.

In fourth grade I played basketball. Actually played. I'm not saying I was star player, because I wasn't, but I participated. It was at the Y, so it was just practicing and scrimmages and three games. We lost the first two and won the last one. Our jerseys were purple, which I still didn't like. I think we were the Purple Tigers. I got us two points in the last game, the one we won, which I was immensely proud of. Immensely. "If it hadn't been for me, we only would have gotten thirty-two points!" Of course, I had new glasses (because my eyesight is so horrible, if you poked out an eye, it would probably improve. Depending on which eye you poked out). So they fell off, a girl on the other team (who I was guarding and who was guarding me) picked them up for me. Duh I made friends with her! Plus I saw her afterwards at Taco Bell.

Fifth grade was two things: Volleyball, and Track & Baseball. Volleyball was awful. The teacher was an old, chubby guy who sat on his chair and yelled at us. He had this weird accent too, and smelled like sweat. Had he taken a shower in the past year? I think no. "If da ball's tooo high, scoot BAHCK!" Mo and I imitate him to this day. On the plus side, we voted on what color jersey. Red! YES! Track & Baseball wasn't great either. The teacher wasn't the best. Plus I stink at running, pitching, catching, and hitting. That's a problem in track and baseball.

6th grade and up, I'm now taking gym. A different sport every month. I go once a week. You don't have to be good at sports to go there, although the boys are pretty agressive. I try to stay out of their way when the sport is something like Dodgeball or soccer on the last day. I hate getting stepped on.

For me, sports is just exercise. I play Wii, and I'm good at those sports, so I think I'll stick with that and gym. :)

Gotta go eat breakfast! Happy Wednesday!