With the upcoming basketball season starting in a few weeks. I feel fully ready and excited for it. During summer I worked with multiple basketball trainers and teams. The team this year is looking great, and has a lot of potential. There is more size in the team now. During the summer it has just been mostly basketball for me. I started the day with basketball practice with the team and ended the day with the trainer. The basketball trainer, Noah, has helped me a lot basketball wise. He has helped me gain more knowledge in the game. He taught me how to control the ball and the speed of the game. I have improved my jumper with his help. I averaged 17.2 points per game and 5 assists during the season in the league I have joined with my friend in Taiwan. Although we have been downgraded to the lower bracket this upcoming season, we still have a chance in making the CIF if we go 8-0 this season. Anyways, I have come prepared and ready this season to win first place in the league this year.
Tag: life
ranting about school rules and music
I love listening to music. It helps me focus and get things done. Whenever I need to lock in on cleaning my room, the house, my homework, or when I’m just trying to relax. I always play music. I hate this new rule at school that makes it so we’re just not allowed to listen to music. We can’t use headphones, so how are we supposed to listen to music unless we play it out loud, but if we play it out loud then we’re distracting others and most songs have swear words in them. I get why we aren’t allowed to play explicit music out loud but I’m not trying to listen to some kidz bop remix of my favorite song, so that basically means we can’t play any music out loud. Also, not everyone in a class is going to want to listen to the same music so people would get in arguments about it and make it so no one can listen to music at all. Thanks for listening to my rant have a good day.
photo credit – https://www.uchealth.org/today/benefits-of-music-5-ways-to-use-music-to-improve-your-daily-life/
school mornings
I usually set my alarm for 6:35 and 7:00. I stop the first one and wake up at the second one; but this morning I had to ride in my first block so I set my alarm for 6 am. I still snoozed it once but after I was up and awake it was kind of nice. I had extra time to get ready and watch tv while I did my makeup. And I even had like ten minutes to just sit in bed, and I still left by 7:30. I have never been a morning person but I feel like I might want to start waking up earlier so I don’t feel rushed in the mornings. For me if I have a bad morning or I’m late it kinda ruins my whole day. I just feel so much calmer when I get to school early. And then I can hang out with my friends and go on my phone before school starts, and even sometimes get breakfast. Or if I leave early I can get starbucks, or coffee connection.
photo credit – https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/its-time-to-wake-up-gm1054282608-281697247
The Creation of Someone on Writer’s Block
(I remember being ten and constantly looking out of my bedroom’s window.)
What’s going on here?
What are these things in my mind’s eye
Winding and filled with desperate wanderlust
Leaning out of windows to peek through
Studying and thinking
If only they could ever leave their current life
Leave and learn and grow, all like they used to
Back when they were spontaneous
And go out into that bright world out there
Just. In. Sight.
Will these things in my mind’s eye ever leave?
Like will I go on with these wandering thoughts
Thoughts that fly and flit around my head
That I always try to grasp at
But no, it never seems to stick
And what will happen once critics see these thoughts?
What would they read out of these ramblings?
Will they draw constant connections to specific word choice, as per usual
Hyper focus and hype up the accidentals
Pay such special attention to the fact that flit, it and stick
Rhyme and just so happen to be within two lines of each other?
Because alliteration is the height of poetic meaning
What allegory will they invent for this
Imagine the new entity which could rise
From the dirt
To be studied and beloved
Far beyond its lowly circumstance
The Moon’s a Fonder Friend to Me
Would I need to have you admit
It could have been anyone – anyone – else
To make peace with the growth you made for me
My mind remembered paths back then
But the moon was new as a maiden voyage and –
I never gave an ample thought
To where your hand was taking me
A derelict shack with only ravenous eyes
They’d say I should’ve been anywhere else
But that desperation made me
Wonder if you were broken like me
And then I did recognize the musk
There is that rusting and hopeless ennui
You said my best refuge was apathy
And in the end, “you let me be”
You boasted on the courage of my honey,
Of the loneliness piercing your mind.
Mouth slick, you said – I’m the last angel you’ll send away?
Because I let some layman hoard my empathy
Remain a porcelain face.
Be stabbed through a belly’s pit.
Fluttering lips taught your whispers over my cries
As you went on to embalm each part of me
One day I stopped with bearing all your doubt
I should’ve had anyone – anyone – else
Gnawed legs do fit gnawed light stumbling through the leaves
I yearn to crack at every stride – I get to choose
“You laid in the bed they made for you”
That’s the first worthy thing that’s been said in his world
Because you are a fonder “friend” to me
I love you more than he, the sun
Suffering each fiery beating he sends your way
And you haven’t a spark to respond
Yet look how you shine with the light you’re given
I follow behind – what else will I do?
Maybe I learn to thrive, from what you did
Would I love her soft glow with no ravenous glower
But the best lesson I learned from you
Is that I could have been anyone
Anyone else
(“My first kidnapping victim left me for the moon.”
“That’s rough, buddy.”)
riding
I have been riding since I was basically 2 years old. My first show was with OVS around 4th grade, I’m guessing. It was at Canada Larga on Jackie. She bucked me off like 2 times before it was my turn. I went into the ring nervous I would forget my course, and I almost did. In the end I completed it successfully. After the next few people took their turns the results were decided… I scoured 4th. I of course would have prefered a higher score but I was still pretty happy with that. Last year I went to Nationals for IEA in North Carolina. I flew all the way there for one ride. I placed 4th. I was very happy with that because I never even thought I would make it to regionals. When I was riding at regionals in Oregon I wasn’t even nervous because I never thought I would make it, which I think is why I ended up qualifying. Riding has been a big part of my life for as long as I can remember and I’m so grateful I’ve gotten the opportunity to do this.
photo credit – https://www.britannica.com/animal/horse
Journaling
My favorite journal lines:
I keep sucking air but it can’t fill my lungs. I feel like there’s no more air in the world.
When she tried to watch the board, her eyes would fog.
My mind likes to wander away to its own world far from reality.
She fought a silent battle behind a smile, not so much to hide her pain from others, but to hide it from herself.
She lay in bed trying to untangle her thoughts most of the time, or just to make them go away completely. Peace and quiet are foreign in her mind. She would try to read but the words would dance off the page like they were trying to run away.
She was afraid people wouldn’t understand her because she didn’t understand herself.
He noticed the tremble in her voice and the way she played with her bracelet. He could tell she was struggling.
PC: manos_de_pietro
Fall
This morning I got my first pumpkin spice chai tea from Starbucks. The moment I took a sip I felt fall in the air. Don’t get me wrong I love summer more then anything, but there is something about fall that I find calming. After a long hot summer, the temperature starts to go down, Friday night football starts up, and most importantly Halloween and Homecoming. Fall has always been one of my favorite seasons I can finally start wearing comfy hoodies and sweats and get a hot chai before school. It’s not super cold yet but the summer heat is coming to an end. I associate a lot of things with fall but the most important one has to be pumpkins. I love pumpkins whether it’s carving them or having a pumpkin pie. There is something about Fall that is just comforting and I am so happy it finally cools down.
Football
The flag football team has started the season with 3 loses. We were not playing our best in the first 2 games. We always start trying in second half instead of trying our best with 100% effort in the beginning of the game. Which causes us giving the opponents picks and interceptions. We will have to start the next games with a good attitude. We have not been prepared before the game. We need to get our head in the game before the game even starts. In the third game we played against a really good school, which it was a tough game. We only have three games left in the season. We need to win all three games in order to get into CIF. During this week until the next game, we will need to be working hard since there is still a lot of work to work to put into both defense and offense. Coach has made some changes in the starting roster and game plans hopefully it will work and we will get 3 wins.
DJ mix
Mixing music can be fun once you start to learn it but before figuring out the controllers and all the techniques in mixing music, it can be stressful. It all started in the winter of my freshman year. I got my first ever DJ controller, Pioneer DDJ Rev1 It took me a long time to finally figure out how to get the sound out from my speaker and how to put songs in the software. That’s when I decided to start this new hobby. I start mixing songs with friends when hanging out with them and messing around. However, I stopped playing with it in sophomore year because I started losing interest in it. Now that I just got another new controller and mixer I have decided to start playing with it again. There are lots of things to be careful about. For example the most important thing starts with the BPM of the song. Usually if songs are different in between 0-5 bpm then it should fit just fine. Secondly, is the transition. It is not easy as it seems. It takes practices to make good transitions in between songs or from one song to another. Lastly is it requires basic music theory to be able to create good mixes and transitions. Anyways, mixing music has became a big part in my hobbies it helps me relax and just have fun messing with the music. It’s also one of the ways to hang out with friends for me which is why I love it now.
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