Lacrosse!!

This weekend has been pretty crazy! I had five lacrosse games in less than twenty-four hours and I am sooo tired now! Sorry, I don't have any pictures of me playing (ALL of the cameras in my house seem to have disappeared, it irks me), but hopefully I will soon have some up so that you guys will have proof that I actually play lacrosse other than my word and those two team photos.

Anyway, I had a game last Tuesday against Weber at some park in Weber. I had to bring my lacrosse stuff to school and change right after. The whole team met up at my school at 3 and then we just all piled into peoples' cars and left. We got there around 4, so we of course ran and practiced our catching and all that fun stuff. My friend, Sammy Facer, and I weren't very happy because we, once again, didn't get to start and we haven't gotten to play very much at any of our past games which isn't fair. Everyone else is comfortable playing and knows how everything goes while it's a treat if Sammy and I get to be on the field for more than five minutes and we still don't really get what we're doing. Our team scored 12 goals before we got to play. When I finally did go in, I was pretty excited and nervous since I don't get to play too much. I play attack and so does Sammy. The ball was over on our offense side and someone tried to score, but Weber's goalie caught the ball and then yelled "clear!" and then is supposed to pass it to one of her teammates. The goalie threw the ball, and I noticed that it was going near me so I instinctively moved that way and put my stick up.....and caught the ball. I stood there in shock for about two seconds, I had just caught the ball and made an interception. Did I really just do that? Then, I heard a bunch of girls yell "Celeste, RUN!!!'' I came back to my senses, freaked out, and started running with the ball towards the goal. A bunch of girls from the other team blocked me though, so I threw it to someone else. After that was all done and some ref had blown the whistle over something, I looked around at my coaches and they yelled "good job!" so I gave them a thumbs up. After that, I tried to get a ground ball but another girl got there first, so I checked her (hit her stick with mine) and the ball fell out but she got it again so then I tried to check her again but did an illegal one and got called for it. Oops. Around three minutes later, a girl on my team, Addie, got the ball and started running back to offense. Someone from Weber did an illegal check, so we had to stop, and she was about ten feet from me. She gave me a meaningful look and I heard one of my coaches yell "get the ball Celeste!" So, when the whistle blew again to resume game, Addie threw it to me. I, of course, dropped it. But then, I ran and picked it up and ran as fast as I could to the goal and dodged all of the other players and threw it and I scored!!!! I was so happy and all the girls on my team were freaking out. It kinda bothered me that they were making such a big deal about it since they obviously didn't think I could do it or they wouldn't've been going so crazy, but I was so happy!! But of course, a few minutes later, my coach, Sam, pulled me out again. She said I did a good job though. I was happy, I made my first goal, and my goal for the whole season was to score and I did it at the third game! I got to play more the second half (lacrosse games are divided into two 20 minutes halves), but didn't do much else. Sammy was mad though, because she missed cheerleading at her last away game to come to this game, and she barely got to play so I felt kinda bad. I didn't get to play much either, but scoring made up for that. It was a good game, and we won 17-3.

The next couple of days at practice, I improved a lot more and Sam and Alli (my other coach) kept on telling me how much better I'm getting.

On Friday, we had our first tournament game. We went up to a place in North Salt Lake called Hatch Park and played against Davis. We weren't really happy we had to play them because we had already played, and beaten, them two times already. My mom and sisters all came to watch. I got to play a lot more that game, almost the whole time. At the end of the game, us and Davis were tied 7-7, so we had to go into over time where we play two three-minutes halves. We scored two more times so we won 9-7.

Because of some things that came up, Sammy and I decided we wanted to have a sleepover at my house.

The next morning, we woke up at 6 am to go to lacrosse. Sammy's mom had brought her stuff over. So my mom drove us to lacrosse and we played against Woods Cross. Sammy could only go to half of it because she had Lagoon training at 9 (I had training too, but I skipped it). They beat us, but it didn't matter because it was only a tournament and not a season game and it wasn't really fair since they were varsity and we are a first year team and only junior varsity. After that, we drove back to Centerville to have an actual game for our season against Olympus at 10. We beat them, and I scored again. It was a pretty fun game, but it went by fast. After that, we had to drive back up to Hatch Park for a game against Cache Valley at 12. They were varsity too, so we got beaten again. We then had one more game, and since Davis lost to Wood's Cross, we had to play Davis for a fourth time at 2:30. No one wanted to play them so we weren't very happy. Needless to say, we beat them again.

When I got home, I was so tired so I took a three hour nap. When I woke up, I saw that I had gotten sunburned, and I now look ridiculous because there's a tan line on my arms where I rolled up my under armor (long-sleeved undershirt for lacrosse), and I have a small place right on the bottom of my legs from my leggings because they don't go all the way down, and my face is sun burned. But, I have a nice, attractive white line going across my forehead, around my eyes, and on the bridge of my nose from my goggles. A lot of people were commenting on it at church, but it doesn't look too bad now since I put make-up on it (thank-you Mary Kay!).

So, I had a pretty exhausting yet exciting day yesterday (and Friday I guess...). I'm so happy because I got to play a lot more and I got the ball quite a bit. I still never stop surprising myself with how stupid I am on the field though, I do so many stupid things and do panic passes once I get the ball, but hopefully that will go away with more experience. I love lacrosse!!!

P.S. Sorry if my grammar isn't very good in this post and or if it was hard to follow at all. I'm too tired to try to have it make more sense, so just pretend it does.

For Lack of a Better Title: Stuff

My life is getting crazy. I'm doing musical theater, choir, piano, lacrosse, and I'm working at Lagoon. starting towards the end of next month, I'll be having musical theater multiple days a week and even until late at night after school once the musical comes closer. Right now, I only have it on Mondays after school. Choir was a bit crazy because I've had a couple performances this past week and still have some to go in a couple months. I still have to find time to practice the piano and I have it once a week. Lacrosse is every day after school from 3:30 to 5:30, and I still have 8 more games. I have around 8 more days of training for Lagoon and the season starts in a couple weeks and I'll soon be working every weekend. Let's not forget that I like to hang out with friends every weekend too. What am I getting myself into? Oh well, it will all be worth it. Well it should. I hope. Maybe.

On Tuesday right after school, Ashley and I went to the rides department orientation at Lagoon. I had to miss a lacrosse game that day for Lagoon and choir. We got to watch cute videos from the 90's about operating rides at amusement parks. That lasted a couple of hours and was very gripping, I was so into it I almost fell asleep from the excitement. After it ended and talking to my managers because I wasn't in the computer for some annoying weird reason, I got home for five minutes to put on my choir dress, then headed to Syracuse.

The concert choir and madrigals at my school went a thing called Large Ensemble Festival. There were six other choirs there I think that sang, but I missed all but the last one because I was late getting there. Each choir sings three songs and sight sings and gets rated, 1+ being the highest (just like solo and ensemble) and 5 the lowest. We sang the three songs that we sang for our concert, Dies Irae, Ich Liebe Dich, and Music Down in my Soul. It was a bit hectic on stage because there were so many of us. When the lady was announcing our choir and our choir officers, she said some of their names really weird so everyone on stage was trying not to laugh. Also, right when we started our first piece, someone behind me hiccuped which made everyone start to laugh and then someone started clapping all weird for our last song which made a couple people laugh too. It makes it hard to sing when you're trying not to laugh, and also Ms. Swallow was making faces at us when we did something weird. I thought we did a good job though. Ms. Swallow had to play the song Dies Irae on the piano and it's really complex so she barely conducted us on the song and we had to sing it with only her looking up every now and then to bring us in. We sounded really good on our other songs. The songs we did were very advanced for a junior high and most junior highs wouldn't consider doing songs like that, especially a 5 part German song a-capella. The sight singing was tricky. During class, we just sight sang hymns out of a Baptist hymnal with words, but the one we did at the LEF had no words so it was easier to get lost and then the parts were all over the place. We did a good job though. We got a 1's on our songs and a 1- for our sight singing which was really good. Amanda (my cousin for those who don't know yet even though I mention her quite a bit) was at the LEF too. She goes to Fairfield and she got to see me sing. I was sad I missed her school sing, I've never gone to one of her music things and it makes me feel kinda bad. I got to see her after though and I gave her a hug. We finally got done at 7:30, and then we had to wait outside for half an hour for the buses to come and it was freezing! After suffering through the cold, we got on the buses at 8 I think. It took us a while to get home, and it was kinda fun riding in a dark bus with a bunch of kids from choir. It was a cool experience and I'm glad my school's choir did such a good job.

For mutual on Wednesday, we did something like the Amazing Race where we were put into teams and drove around Farmington and found five different leaders who made us do the chicken dance, play tennis, run three laps, pop balloons, and do a puzzle. It was fun, and we got root beer floats at the end.

All I remember from Thursday was lacrosse, and it was spiffy.

Friday was fun. During English, my teacher was working on grades and citizenship and having everyone tell her what assignments they did and what citizenship they think they got and all that good stuff when she mentioned how me and another girl could use some extra credit. I had a B+ but I probably had the lowest grade in the class. Suddenly, without any warning at all, she said "Celeste is going to give an oral report about how Pyramus and Thisbe is similar or different than Romeo and Juliet. She has one minute to prepare, someone start counting." I had a bit of a freak out right there. I just stared at Mrs. Shinn for a couple seconds in freak out mode and then looked around like an animal trying to find an escape route. I frantically tried to find any notes I might've taken on the short story called "Pyramus and Thisbe." The girl in front of me let me borrow her notes and quickly read over them as fast as I could and tried to gather my frantic thoughts together while Mrs. Shinn kept on talking to everyone else about other stuff. She then had me go to the front of the class and have me give me report. I must say, giving oral reports with one minute notice that has to do with a weird story I only read three days ago and with nothing but my brain isn't too fun. However, I gave it as best as I could and everyone told me afterward that they were impressed. Go me. My grade went up to an A-. Now, I have all A's except for math, but there's not much hope for me with that anyway so I just pretend that that grade doesn't exist.

After school, me, Sammy, and Davis went to the annual boys basketball team versus the teachers game at our school, but we only went for 15 minutes. We then went to Davis's house for an hour, then me and Sammy went back to my house. At around 9, Davis came over and hung out with us which was super fun. I straightened my hair that day, it was sexy.

This morning, I got to go to go to Lagoon for training!! It started at 9 AM and it was freezing. There were only 5 other people in my group, and we learned how to work Speedway Junior which is a little kid ride where they go in little cars around a track. We also did Dinosaur Drop and Lady Bug Bop and the rollercoaster. After taking a test and being kind of certified, I went home for an hour during lunch because I was cold and hungry. I went back there again at 1 for our SBA. I forget what it stands for, but they tested us on the rides. But, they didn't have us actually work them, they just had us go through how to work them. Since I'm 15, I don't get to press all the cool pretty buttons like the people over 16, I just get to load and unload people and press a couple of not as cool buttons. I am now certified to work at those rides. I got done early and Mom and Ashley had the cars, so I just started to walk home. Davis wanted to pick me up though, so when I was half way home, he (well, technically his dad) picked me up and took me home which was so nice of them and saved me from walking an extra 30-40 minutes. It was delightful.

Just so you guys know, and so that people won't freak out at me later for some stupid reason, everything I say on this blog regarding Lagoon is my opinion only and isn't the opinion of Lagoon as I am not authorized to say anything on behalf of Lagoon. There, now if someone has a problem, they can look here and now that these things I say about Lagoon are my own opinion on how wonderful it is and nothing I say on here is Lagoon's opinion or in behalf of Lagoon. These are my own opinions.

Now, I'm going to attempt to take a nap because I've been falling asleep in English this week, I'm soooo tired! Goodbye

Lacrosse, Basketball, and Choir

Hey guys, sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been thinking about it, but there was nothing so terrible exciting in my life that I felt I had to share it with the world of bloggers. However, it's been too long and there have been some pretty spiffy things that have happened this past week.

Wednesday night, I had a choir concert! We sang three songs, Dies Irae, Ich Liebe Dich, and Music Down in my Soul. Dies Irae is a Latin song by Mozart that is super fun to sing. It's really loud and powerful and is saying how when God comes again on the judgment day, on the day of wrath, we had better hope we were good or we'll be screwed. I actually enjoyed singing soprano on this song, because it was so intense, and I love singing high note intensely. It was just a cool song. The next song, Ich Liebe Dich, is in German. I sang second soprano. It's a slow love song, and it isn't too many people's favorite. It's really slow and boring and was a pain to learn, but now that I have performed it, I do respect the song as a nice arrangement and full of sweetness, and now I like to tell my choir friends "Ich liebe dich" because it means "I love you" in German. I think German is so cool, and once I'm done with Chinese and English, I want to learn it. The third song was Music Down in my Soul. I absolutely loved this song. It's so much fun to sing, we're singing about how much we love the Lord and how we've got this "music down in my soul, and it fills my heart with the joy of the Lord". It's super fun and upbeat and energetic, and at one point, a bunch of basses sing "Do you love the Lord?" and then the rest of us sing "I love the Lord!" and then later on we do some clapping. I loved that song, and it was even cooler because I was a second soprano, so I wasn't trying to screech out a bunch of high notes. It was a good concert, and I've got to perform them again at Large Ensemble Festival this Tuesday at a high school.

On Thursday was my first Lacrosse game!! I was so excited, and we got to play our rival school, Davis. I didn't get to play as much as I liked, but it was still fun to just stand there in my mini skirt and watch my team play and cheer them on. Our uniforms are so cute, and I love the mini skirts! Though, I must say it is definitely a new experience running around in a game with a mini skirt on. Anyway, we kicked Davis' butt. I was especially happy because their boy's varsity team was there, and they were totally showing off and wouldn't shut up and were annoying me. The Davis JV team were kinda annoying to play, they clumped a lot and didn't really play very cleanly and all of our girls were getting frustrated with them. The final score was 12 to 5, and then we got to sign some of our posters which we are going to sell. This is the poster:



I'm on the far left, looking like I'm from the ring. I hate the picture of me, I think I look stupid and maybe it would work more if you could actually see muscle, but I'm at an angle were you can't even tell I have any (and yes, I do :]), but overall the picture is pretty spiffy. We signed like ten of them. It was then that I noticed that I have a crappy signature. Oh well. I love lacrosse!

On Friday, Ashley and I went to the Lagoon parkwide orientation. Afterwards, we helped our mom clean for her Mary Kay party, then I went off with Sammy. We went to Kohl's to try on dresses, and then we went to my young women basketball game. We made it to regions, and we won our game that night again. We are undefeated! After that, I just hung with Sammy at my house for an hour and tried not to fall asleep because I was so tired.

Today, I went to another Young Women basketball game, we were in the quarter finals. However, the team that we played were amazing and we just couldn't beat them. Even though they beat us pretty badly (29 to 9 I think) I still have so much fun because I've never played such a competitive team before and I really just enjoy playing. I didn't make any of my shots (they were sooo close!), but I ran with the ball down court a couple of times which is very exciting, and I think we all did a really good job. Even our smallest and newest player, Abbie England, make two shots and even made a foul! Now, I'm about to go to a Mary Kay part for lacrosse. I hope people come! Bye everyone!

P.S. I cut my hair, it's like three inches shorter, thinner, has more layers, and my bangs are shorter now. I love it!!!!