My head was pounding from smacking it on the bottom of the top bunk bed. I overestimated how much time I would have to sleep. However, now that I was wide awake, I was too excited, and there was no way I would be able to go to sleep again. Today marks my first soccer game of my first season! Therefore, last night, I had laid out everything I would need for the next day, but I had stayed up too late doing it. The first thing I needed to do was drink coffee, which helps me wake up.
After waking up, I had to quell my jitters and excitement so my mom would not flag, and become overwhelmed. She sent me back upstairs to get ready. My jersey was blue, my shorts were blue, my socks were blue, and the whole time I was appareling, …show more content…
I had been agog that I scored a goal, in the first game I ever played. My coaches had their mini speech about how proud he was, and then he let us enjoy mini pretzels courtesy of my fellow teammate. After, when I was packing up my equipment, my coach came over to me, and to this day four years later, I still remember what he said to me.
“Great job today Grace. That was an excellent shot and if you want to do it every game, you need to put in as much hard work as you did last week, for the rest of this season as well as the rest of your soccer career.”
I responded out of breath with two words. “I will.”
My dad and mom congratulated me and even though I was getting colder and colder from no longer running, I still thanked them and talked for a while about the game. Even though in the near future from this day today my soccer career will be over because of a different sport, I still will always take his words and keep the meaning from them through anything in life. Even if I’m not scoring literal goals, I can achieve whatever I want by working hard for it, and earning it. Through tough times through life, thick and thin, those words will stick in my brain like