Yesterday I also had the last jump teams, I wasn’t there in time to ride, but I was there for the awards. I was sort of glad I didn’t ride because Spirit is a lot different outside. He started bucking and galloping across the arena after a jump on Tuesday. But I got two awards, one for being on the first place team, and the other one for showing up, even though things might not have gone so great, but you were a good sport and learned a lot. Jump teams were so fun.
Yesterday Mom, Dad, Coleman and I drove down to Sturgis for my Solo and Ensemble preformance. I got there, I warmed up, I was so ready to play my solo piece. I went outside to watch my friend Chris preform, then someone told me that everyone from Gull Lake got a one so far. The pressure! But Chris did pretty well and got a one. I was next. I made a couple of mistakes, but I still got a one! I thought that getting a one meant you played your piece perfectly. I guess I shouldn’t complain. After I got done I had to tell Ms. Cha how I did, she was very proud of me. Then we ate at a cafe thing, it was really good. After that we went to a bookstore and Dad got tons of books. Then it was time to go back and play my trio. I got there and Taylor asked me if I had the original copy of our music, of course I said no, because I didn’t have it, I gave it to Taylor, but Taylor thought he gave it to me, this led to a frantic search for Ms. Cha to see if she knew who had it. We found her and it was sort of funny because Taylor and I were sure that the other one had lost it, well, Ms. Cha was like, calm down, take a deep breath, Will has it. Then we were nervous because Will wasn’t there and in 10 minutes we were going to play (and Will has the melody). Will got there and we were fine, Will did have it, and after I found out I started laughing really hard. We played really well and got a one, too. Everyone from Gull Lake got a one but one person.
Sounds like trouble to me.
Thursday was my first track meet ever. I ran the 100 m dash and the 200 m hurdles. I did pretty good, actually. In the 100 I got 5th place out of 24 (give or take a few) girls. Which was very surprising, I wasn’t even sprinting up on my toes. My time was about 15 seconds. I don’t really know because they never told us our times, I just looked over the shoulder of the time recorder. This is the exiting part, I ran the 200 m hurdles and I did really well untill I hit a hurdle and landed really hard. Then I just lost all the momentum I had. I got 4th out of 5 girls. In my next track meet I want to add the 55 m hurdles.