Tonight was our first volley ball game... we played College Station MS - yeah, in the words of my kids, "those tall girls been playing a while huh?" They were pretty good, however our girls did a great job! I was really proud of all of them! Our A team actually won one game!! I mean it didn't count, but they did well, and pulled off some things we didn't expect.
Grad school is in week 2 -- tons of work, but I LOVE our discussions and all of the cool things we've been learning about. It makes me re-think my teaching, and how would I look at me as an administrator... its pretty interesting -- definitely want to teach/coach for a long long time.
We were walking into our game tonight, and my girls were so polite! They said hi to a young lady and her mom who were by the door, and obviously smiled judging by the reaction of the kid. She seemed pleased with herself for saying high to our kids. Then as soon as our last girl walked by the mom said "don't talk to Jane Long kids, they'll beat you up" This was absurd! I was so mad that I nearly said something - but I figured my girls did such a great job - that continued throughout the game - in representing Jane Long, that I had better follow my own advice. It really hit me though - I mean, I have heard the JL horror stories, I get looks (and discounts) because I work here, and last year I would have been like yeah - you're right.. but I have seen a great improvement of our campus attitude and especially the attitude of the athletes. They are amazing, and I just hope our society isn't to chauvinistic to see the improvement!
I am going to SA this weekend for Elisa's Memorial run... It is going to be really hard, but I am looking forward to dealing a bit with this constant sadness... It has been weighing heavily on my mind - well since she died - mainly for the last few months... thinking that she'd be starting a job now, coaching somewhere, knowing somewhere there is an entire group of kids out there that could have had an amazing coach! Thinking about how people are criticizing her parents for suing for 15 million dollars, but then thinking that if I could pay 15million dollars to get her back, i would find a way to do it... I guess I just do need this little bit of closure this weekend possibly holds.
Saturday is also going to be an amazing day for me. I get to see Chris!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really want to put exclamation points for paragraph to get across how happy I am! Mom said he's been asking for me, and that she didn't tell him I was coming! He is going to be so excited! I really am thinking of kidnapping him and bringing him back, I miss him so much! I can't wait! Mom invited the whole family to come to the house for a birthday party.. I don't care about anything other than Chris... Javier is glad I get to see Chris too, that way I can at least stop crying about not seeing him for 2 years :) well.. not an interesting blog -sorry, but I am pretty exhausted. I knew that I was taking on a bit, but I am for sure missing out on sleep. night!
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