I love my team

I love everyone on my team. I feel bad for teams that have major drama, don't get along and talk behind each others backs. Those are the teams that are horrible on the court because they do not have any chemistry off the court. And you can tell by the way they move the ball around.

I am so thankful to have such an amazing team. We are all so close and comfortable with each other in such a short period of time. For instance, as of a few days ago I had to get a contact for one of my eyes to be able to play. And I have had some SERIOUS trouble with taking it out of my eye. I am perfectly fine with putting it in my eye, but taking it out is just a no go. Therefore, my dearest friend and amazing teamate Jayna took it out of my eye for me. She has now three times for me. How many people do you know that are willing to go into your eye and take your contact out for you? How many people do you trust to do that to you? This is just one example of why I love my team so much. I could go on forever about each and everyone of them, BUT I have other homework to do.

Just letting everyone know that I LOVE MY TEAM! And that they should be jealous. hehe :)

PHILLIES about to have that repeate!

For those of you who do not know, I am from philly. I am a HUGEE Phillies and Eagles fan. I do enjoy my flyers as well. I have season tickets to the Eagles right on the 50 yard line. (DId you know its a 91 year wait for eagles season tickets?!) and Phillies season tickets right to the left of home plate.

And as of last night the Phillies are currently on their way to having a REPEATE of last year. For those of you who are unaware, The Phillies won the world series last year. And I was at the 5th game too. It was amazing. I also was at the Parade and had front row seats and got to touch every players hand on the Phillies as they walked around holding the world series trophy. The best part was touching my husbands hand Cole Hamels<3

My dad has been at the last 3 home games against the Dodgers. My dad has already bought 2 tickets for a world series game and becuase I am currently located in Cville and basketball season is just starting to begin. I am extremely sad to say that I do not think I will be able to go home for a game. Only if there was a way I could somehow go to practice, drive home 5 hours to the game, watch it, and then drive back in time for classes and practice. Unfortunatley, this does not seem very realistic as much as my father has been trying to convince me. It makes me want to go cry in my room under my covers. :(

BUT even though I will most likely not be able to be physically with my Phils, I will be mentally. They will feel my power and I predict another WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!! It is going to be amazing to have an East coast world series between the Yankees and the Phillies. Everyone better watch becuase it's going to be INSANE!!!!

GO PHILLIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

recruiting for college basketball

Recruiting for college basketball has chnaged drastically througout the years. If you have ever seen the movie "Love and Basketball" which is based on in the 80's Monica Wright the star female player who is trying to play college basketball did not get recruited until her last game of her senior year. And she also found out she was going there through a letter in the mail.

Now kids commit earlier and earlier. Some kids commit as early as their freshman year. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? so much can change from their freshman year in high school to when they are ready to go to college. Especially for boys. What if they do not develop, or grow as much as expected? All my guy friends that play basketball, their games have chnaged drastically from their freshman year in high school to their senior year. Michael Jordan didn't even make varsity his freshman year.

Now coaches can call, text, email, send letters, take home visits, come to your games, come to your school, and pretty much stalk you to get you to come to their school. Should that be allowed? kids will be in class texting coaches, which is a huge distraction from school as well. I also think this is why kids commit to schools so much earlier, becuase they get tired of all the hastle of the schools. They just want everyone to leave them alone and for all the chaos to stop!

Should the rules be changed? Should their be more rules to protect the athletes? Then again there are plenty of rules now that many coaches break. Would it make a differnce? Was it better back in the 80's when they could only come to your games? and most of them would only see you play once? Is is easier to be recruited now? or harder?

Are boys and girls recruiting that differnt?

So many thoughts. So many thoughts.

Fortune Cookies

I was at a chinese resturant last night with my family and some friends. It was so fun and the food was great. And at the end of the meal everyone got a fortune cookie. We went around the table and all read our fortunes. I started to think; why are we so intrested in what a tiny piece of paper has to say? Do we really think it is going to come true? And if it is a bad fortune do people actually believe something bad is going to happen to them or do they just dismiss it? Who in the world has the right to tell me how MY future is going to play out. Only I can decide that. Not some stupid cookie with a piece of paper in it!!! I wish I could meet the person who writes this fortunes. Becuase I have quite a few things to say!

more bus issues

well I am back on the topic of buses. They seem to be taking over my life. I spend so much time on a bus from morning workouts to class, to my dorm, to practice to study hall and then back to the dorm. Each day is filled with many bus rides.

Last week I had a really big isse with buses not stopping for me. I now have offically decided that seeing the bus you need to get on pull up to your stop when you are to far to get it is worse then a bus not stopping. Buses not stopping does't happen that regularly, but watching a bus pull up and you are way to far to even run but close enough that you can see it slip away!! its horrible. And it is happening more and more these days and its driving me insane! Does anyone else have this issue? expereince this lots? Because I am really staing to think I am the only one who has crazy bus issues. please tell me there are others out there

Bus's that don't stop

Last week Ms. Bowles came into class and told us how she had walked to class that day. She said she tried to catch the bus along the way because it was coming, but the bus drove right past her. Little did I actually know how annoying it is to have a bus just drive by you until a few days ago. My teamate China and I were outside JPJ waiting for a bus for a considerable amount of time, and when the bus finally came it drove right by us. The bus was no where close to being full either. Why does this happen? Are there certain procedurals one has to do to stop a bus? Does one have to make eye contact with the bus driver? Does one need to walk towards the bus as its passing to imply they want to get on? Are there unspoken bus waiting codes? Or is it that the bus driver just didn't see people waiting? hmmm...