Trust Me

   For the Junior Olympic volleyball team I had to get the coach and the team to belive that I was fit for the team. Joining a volleyball team is not the cheapest thing to do. So if you make a team,  you want to get your money's worth. The way I proved that I was good was that I always tried my best with every play. No matter how far away the ball was,  I went after it because my heart is into volleyball. My hard work really did pay off. I have a spot on the team,  and I am the 'go to hitter.' Our first tournament really made me shine. I hit one ball after another, after another. The coach and our setter knew that if we want put the ball down, that I was the one to set. I am a big part of the team with my consistency.  But I would not have become the player that I am without my girls.

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        Going into my sophomore year was not easy at all. I worried about whether or not I would make the Elyria High School Junior Varsity Volleyball team, what my classes would be like, and how I would be able to manage work. Now, those were just individual fragments of my life, so let us try putting it all together. I had school five days a week, volleyball practice six days a week, and work. On top of that, I had to keep good grades. Some say that I am crazy for putting myself through all of these struggles, but I think that I am getting one step closer to my aspirations.

 

   The subject I feel most nervous for would be English. I find Algebra least nerve wrecking because numbers and equations normally almost come easy to me. Science and History come close to being as hard as English but not quite because those two subjects at least have a text book I can utilize to study with. With English I do not have a text book that tells you when to put commas, colons, and semi colons in a sentence. I only have a book that has short stories in it and questions based on the stories. Yes, we do go over a lot of things that will be on the Ohio Graduation Test but unless I have kept every single paper, I really do not have much to study. Some ways I can prepare myself better for the Ohio Graduation Test would be to look up questions that have been on previous tests that have been released.