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GYMNASTICS

elg1221 — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:14:22 +0000

Another of my passions is gymnastics. I don’t practice this sport anymore, but I still like seeing it in TV or go match my cousins in competitions. I started practicing gymnastics when I was 7 years old. I was in love with this sport. In gymnastics there are 10 levels. When I entered I was in level 4. The good thing was that when I started there was a froup of about 4 girls of my same age, and we all stayed together. When I turned eight years old I advanced to level 5. In this level, in floor, we had to do round-off double backhandspring. I had a lot of problems trying to do the round-off double backhandspring. In vault, we just had to do the ” paloma”. In bars our routine was really easy, and evrytime that I had a competition I would always do excellent. The beam was where I wuld ALWAYS would do terrible! Because of beam I couldn’t advance level. All my friends that where with me in level 5 advanced to level 7 because they could do a backhandspring in beam, but I just couldn’t. In all the other “equipments” (floor, bars and vault) I had all the right “moves” or capacity to be in level 7, but beam was in my way. I quitted gymnastic when I turned 9 but I had to come back so two months later I entered gymnastics again This time I did all I could, but my coach said taht she couldn’t upgrade me to level 7 until the end of the year. Eventhough I could not try at all because in January I would start level 7, I still went to all practices. We had practice every day from 5pm to 9pm. On Saturdays we went from 8 am to 12pm, then we had lunch there in the gym and strated again form 2 pm to 8pm. When we had competition we would also trianed on sundays. When I turned 11 i decided to quit gymnastics. I just couldn’t handle anymore, I mean, I couldn’t go out with my friends and I didn’t had a social life. Also I had a lot of problems with my school because evrytime I went to a competition I would lose a lot of school work. I still like gymnastics a lot and I sometimos watch it in TV or go watch my cousins in their competitions. But there is sometthing that I am sure about, it is that eventhough I love gymnastics I can’t go back.

JAZZ

elg1221 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:21:43 +0000

I know that all my other posts have been about my passion for soccer, but I thought that maybe I should also write about my other passions. One of them is jazz. I’ve been dancing since I was little, but stopped many times. I started when I was about 3 years old, but in that time I used to dance ballet. I stopped when I was about five because all of my friends also quit, so I didn’t want to be left behind. Later on when I was about 11 years old or 12 I joined the dance academy, Dance Works Costa Rica in Trilogia. I started in the group “turquesa” which is beginners. I dance through the entire year and at the end in December or November we had a show with the whole academy. The next year I skipped “rojas” and joined “lilas” that was advanced. With the lilas I went to the DEA(dance educators of America) in which we had tap, ballet and jazz classes with educators of America. Then the fourth day we had the competition in which I danced with the song “Hollywood.” Our academy had 10 choreographies and many won platinum or gold. My dance got silver =(. After the DEA I quit jazz. Last year in April I started dancing again at the same academy. I had the choice to join “azules” that is beginners or join “grises” which is intermediate II I danced through the entire year and then at the end of the year we had the academy show/presentation. This year I was supposed to start with the “vino” which is intermediate III, but the academy put me with the “negras” which are the advanced, before the “compañia”. The compañia is the one that represents the academy in other countries, specially in the US. It is divided into three groups; compañia senior, teen and junior. I think I have been doing a great job with the negras. This Sunday the acadmeny has a family day, and all the groups are supposed to do their own dance. So we hope that ours is the best with the song “Low”!!!

AASCA TEAM

elg1221 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:35:55 +0000

Our team consists of 16 players. Our captain for 2 years has been Alex Mekler. She has been playing soccer since little and her first AASCA was in 7 grade, now she is a senior. She plays a libero and thanks to her the players from the other teams dont score. Our sub-captain is Lara Carlow. She plays in front of Alex. She started playing with the team last year and has improved really good! Our right defense is Maude Pires. Her first AASCA was in 9 grade. Our left defense is Jana Atkinson and her first AASCA was in 8 grade. She was going to play as our goalie but couldnt because of her knee problems. Our center mid-fielder is Jessica Nunez and Nicole Lamas. This year was Jessicas first year in the team and Nicole’s was last year. Our left mid-fielder is Camille Garnier and she started to play with the team last year. I am the right mid-fielder and I started to play with the team last year. Our two forwards are Marian Fishman and Daniela Mekler. This year Marian scored 9 goals in the tournament and even won a trofee. Daniela played as goalie this year because our goalie, Melissa Rodriguez, broke her leg three days before the tournament. The subs are Ryan, Nadine Cordero and Ruve Pires. Our coach, JOse Manuel Artavia played for 15 years with the team Cartagines and has been the coach for the varsity team for many years. These team is the one who got in 3 place last year and this year in 2 place!!

MY SOCCER HISTORY

elg1221 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:17:11 +0000

I think you can already see that I LOVE SOCCER! Since I was little I’ve played soccer with my cousins, that is when I started “loving” soccer. When I was in first grade in the Panamerican school I would be the only girl in the team. I was mid-fielder and will always fight with the boys on the team. In second grade, more girls joined the team, so they made a just girls soccer team. I was named captain but stayed on the team until half of 3 grade because I changed schools. In my other school, just my two best-friends and I played soccer so we were in the boys team. Although, two months later the team was canceled because not many people signed for it. So, I was really sad, so I would only play soccer with my cousins or friends. When I entered CDS in fifth grade I didn’t get in the team because I was two small. In sixth grade I tried again. This time I wasn’t a starter, but at least I was in the team. After a month o so of playing in the team I realized that I loved playing as goalie. Then, I became the official goalie. Just before the final, my math teacher kicked me out of the team because of my bad grade in math, so this time I was REALLY sad. In 7 grade I joined the team again, but this time I was also playing in the Varsity team. In middle school, the coach didn’t let me change to mid-fielder so I had to play as goalie. In the Varsity team I started as defense and was the supplementary goalie. I was really thrilled when the coach from the Varsity team picked me to go to the AASCA Tournament held in Panama. Even though, I was in the Varsity team I still had to attend the middle school practices and games. Our middle school coach wasn’t happy when I told I was going to go to Panama. Now, in 8 grade I was the sub-captain of the middle school team and a starter in the Varsity team. This year we won the action tournament in the middle school team, winning the final 7-1. In the Varsity team we went to AASCA in El Salvador and got in 2 place. On both teams I play as center mid-field and I do the corner kicks. In the middle school team I do the goalie kicks, corner kicks and free kicks. I really love soccer and I hope I will continue playing it until I am really old!!!

MIDDLE SCHOOL

elg1221 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:16:46 +0000

I am also in the middle school soccer team. I have been in this team for 3 years now. Before I used to be the goalie of the team, but last year I started playing as center mid-fielder. In this team I do the corner kicks and goal kicks. Marian Fishman is the captain of the team and I am the sub-captain. In this year’s action tournament we didn’t lose a game and got in 1 place. Unfortunately, I couldn’t play on the semi-finals because I was in AASCA. Fortunately, I played in the final. I will be posting later..SEE YA!!!

RIVAL GAME

elg1221 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:16:20 +0000

Today I have a game with the varsity team against AIS. We really want to win because they beat us in the final at AASCA. I will post later how we did in the game.!!! Unfortunately we lost, so we are really sad. But we hope that the next time that we have a game against AIS we will beat them!!!!!

AASCA TOURNAMENT

elg1221 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:15:51 +0000

On March 4, I went with my school’s varsity team to a soccer tournament in El Salvador. We arrived at 3:00 p.m. and then we went to the Hilton Princess Hotel. After they gave us our room key, Camille Marian and I went to unpack our bags. We were all really tired so we just when to the sauna and jacuzzi. At night we went to eat at subway. On wednesday we had training from 11:30 to 2:00 p.m. After we arrived to the hotel and went to the mall for 2 hours. When we got back, we all went to this salon to do an activity called “Ice break” were we get to meet the other teams. On thursday we had to wake up at 5:20 a.m so we could go have breakfast and then at 7:00 our bus left, Our first game was at 11:30 against Mazapan from Honduras and we beat them 3-0. Our second game was at 3:00 and against Balboa from Panama (the winners from last year) and we beat them 1-0. On friday our first game was at 9:00 against the host team, Panamericana, and we beat them 1-0. The second game was at 1:30 and it was against CAS from Guatemala and we beat them 6-1. On saturday the semi-final was at 8:00 against ISP from Panama and we beat them in penalties. The final was at 4:00 against AIS from Costa Rica and they beat us 1-0. We got on 2 place, but I was satisfied with the result and i think that also my team was happy.