First off, I'll post the leather shorts soon I just got a camera. Second, I wouldn't have gotten that camera if it wasn't for volleyball....
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So in our school there are two freshman teams, one JV(junior varsity), and one varsity team....the problem with this is that a lot of girls have to be cut when all the former freshman try out for JV. For the past week I've been trying out for JV, I was so sure that I was going to get in that I never, ever ever, through the whole tryout feel nervous; already things went wrong there.
A saying that I heard today goes something like this " if you don't humble yourself than someone else will have to humble you for you (more like humiliate) and if you're already humble than people will bring you up (make you look good)". I was anything but humble and I don't know if it was evident to the coaches but even if it wasn't this whole experience was very humbling.
That's the first thing I did wrong.
The second thing that I did wrong was that I didn't have the same views on volleyball as the JV coach. Well I 't think i did anything wrong in this case but it's far from the concept of the game. Volleyball, if you didn't already know is a game of mistakes, to me this means try to mess with the other teams so much that they make the mistakes, also, try to figure out their next move before they make it. So basically volleyball is a game to me, like chess or poker. However, and this is what most if not all volleyball players think, volleyball is a game where team work is so uber super essential, one person could never carry a whole team; in other words it's a sport. The coach thought of volleyball as a sport and I thought of it as a game. If I were the coach I wouldn't have picked me either, why would I ever pick a player that doesn't have the same values as me. Although I personally think the second reason is a big one I also think that it's only possible if he read my mind....I hope he didn't do that....
More important than the second reason and related to the first reason is that I don't listen. Although I respect my elders and sunbae (upper classmen) I like doing things my way whether it's wrong or not, you can't coach a girl like that, nope no can do. I feel as if this reason was the most evident and important reason.
I don't think my skills were lacking, nor my physical portion of the tryout.
However because I didn't make the cut the school refunded $115 that was supposed to cover the cost of volleyball and with that money I got a camera.
THE END
"when life gives you a blue card* you use the money and buy a camera"
*in my school the blue card is like a reciept for the payment of entering a sport
