| Wednesday, October 19, 2005 |
| San Angelo Invitational |
Okay. That was the strangest trip of my life.
So, I woke up at 4:45 and packed and stuff, then my mom drove me to the AHS parking lot. We had two vans. In my van, the set up was like so:
Coach D Kaytlin
Abby Aly
Erin Nikki
Rachel Me
Ricca GAV Brooke
So, once everyone arrived (Heather and Amelda got there late, so they had to ride with the boys) we left and went to Starbucks. Man, the nutritional value of what I ate went way down during this trip. I got a frapaccino. That was basically my breakfast (at 5 AM). So then we left town. Kaytlin played her iPod. Ugh. Most of what was played throughout the trip was so girly and popular sounding! It was terrible, but every once in awhile a song was played that I liked. (Axel F. for example) So we all tried to get some sleep, but I didn't succeed. I cannot sleep in cars. I was just lucky I didn't get sick. So after some potty stops and such, we stopped at a McDonalds to get breakfast. I didn't feel like I could eat anything, so all I had was one of those hash brown things that someone didn't want. I read, worked in my word search book, and listened to my iPod for most of the rest of the way.
At about 11:30 or 12, we arrived at the pool. My gosh! San Angelo Central is set up like a freakin' college! They this pretty layout and all these sports facilities. It made AHS look extrememly pathetic. We warmed up. Then a lot of teams did cheers. We didn't do any though because they couldn't agree on anything. People (i.e.- Kaytlin) got very frustrated with other people (i.e.- Jason, Luis, and some other guys) because they refused to do any cheers she (sorry- they) came up with. Actually, I'm glad. As you all know, I hate cheers and pep rallies and such. I didn't even know how the cheers they suggested went.
On to the meet. I was in the very first event. I hate being in the first event of a meet. What was even worse was that I was in the first heat of the first event. It was the 200 Medley relay. Since I did the breaststroke, I did the secend leg. They started the race just a couple seconds after I got up to the block area, so I was still nervous when I started. We were behind because of our backstroke person, so I was very happy with myself when I caught us up. We ended up 2nd in our heat (of three groups -_-').
Now, I WAS going to be in event 7 - the 50 free. On Brad's sheet it showed me in that event, but apparently they didn't enter me into it since I wasn't on the heat sheet. Oh well. I don't like the 50 free anyway ^_^.
After event 8, there was a break. I spent this time going to get two cookies (my entire lunch).
There were no events 9 or 10. It just skipped from 8 to 11. That was strange. During event 15, I was told I was going to be in event 17- 200 free relay. That freaked me out because no one had bothered to tell me beforehand. And then we didn't even know what order our relay was going to be in. Finally, Brad came out of the coachs' office and told us. Event 15 and 16 were the 500 events luckily. Otherwise we wouldn't have been ready for event 17.
I had to start the relay. I hate starting relays. If I could've, I would've switched with Brooke since she likes starting. We won our heat. ^_^ That was very important because (supposedly) the A relay (I was in B) was being really cocky and smug towards us. I, of course, wasn't witness to any of that though.
My next event was the 100 Breast. My only personal event. I was nervous because I was in lane 1. (Lanes 1 and 6 are almost always the slowest lanes). But I came in 2nd (in my heat). That me very happy. What made me even happier was that I cut almost 3 seconds off my time. ^_^
I was about to take a shower, but then Eleysa made me watch her relay. Heck, if I had just gone ahead and taken one, I probably would've been done before her event even started. -_-' Oh well.
In the girls' locker room, I heard 1 or 2 girls retching. Eww.
Blah, blah, blah. We left. It was already 6:30 or 7 by that time. We went to our hotel and soon found out they gave us smoking rooms. We were going to go to Cheddar's for dinner, but since it took so much time to switch us to non-smoking rooms, we went to Quizno's instead. As a freshman, everyone was allowed to cut me in line. That stunk since I was one of the first people in line. Then Mike tried to steal my crackers and made me spill my drink on myself. I felt high on life and people thought I had gone insane since I was jumping around and acting very unlike my normal quiet self. I also learned something new about myself. I lapse into accents without realizing it sometimes when I'm hyper. Hmm... that's cool.
Then we went back to the hotel.... and the dreaded makeover commenced. It was awful. Ask any and they'll tell you I was grimacing the whole time. RACHEL FREAKIN' PLUCKED MY EYEBROWS! (Luckily not very much.) The whole thing was so stupid and I didn't look anything like myself. But everyone else seemed to like it and kept complimenting me. That made it worse. Blech. Anyway, the pictures are on the previous post. They really don't do the makeover justice. I looked less like myself in real life. (I couldn't stand to even look at myself in a mirror for more than a second at a time). Also- Grace Anne isn't very good at operating cameras.
Another downside to the makeover- I wanted to watch the Family Guy movie, but didn't get too. Oh well, I heard it (the watching of, not the actual movie) was a flop. According to Brooke, Jason and her were the only two to show up, and he got the wrong idea and started putting his arm around her so she made up and excuse and left.
About 15 min. after my torture ended, we all had to go back to our rooms and go back to bed. First thing I did was get that stuff off me. I was going to share a bed with Heather, but after 10 min., she and Aly switched. I think now is the best to say this. It didn't even occur to me that I would have to, but here goes -There is so much drama within the team. It makes me sick! All the talking behind others backs and and the exaggeration of situations.
So then Heather and Aly talked for a long time. They accidently woke Wendy up. She talked with them too. For a little while (it couldn't have been more than about 5-10 min., though it felt like a long time), I fell asleep. I woke up to Heather saying (remember, this whole time they've been talking about what they think of other girls and the Aly/Cy situation), "...I like Sarah." Wendy replied, "Yeah, me too." Heather- "Sarah, are you awake?" I didn't reply. I just listened to them for about another half hour until they figured out I was awake. Then, at about 1:30, they FINALLY stopped talking. I was so tired when we had to get up. I got ready, went to the breakfast area, ate 2 muffins, went back to my room to get my stuff, and left on the bus.
We went back to the pool for the finals. I, of course, didn't make it. I sat around the pool, working in my word search book, for a long time. It was very boring, hot & humid, and it gave me a really bad headache. Basically all around miserable. I bought some crackers. That was my lunch. Then, near the end of the meet, came the most exciting part. Chris's parents and siblings came to the meet. So, I talked to Kaytlin (his sister, not Lee). She was watching over their brother Eric. I've probably said this before, but HE'S SO CUTE. ^_^ And he gave me hugs. It was adorable!
When it was finally over, we left. At one gas station we stopped at, I got a stick of beef jerky. I guess that counts as lunch too. Long ride, stops at gas stations.....dinner. We went to Fuddrucker's. As expected, upperclassmen cut me a lot. I wasn't the last to order though. Thomas was nice and let me go ahead of him and Abby, Aly, and the coaches were behind me. But guess what! I was the very last one to get food. I was standing around for several minutes after everyone else got their food. Not fair.
Back on the van. Much talking. About 30 min. out of Amarillo, we had conversation about scary movies and scary dreams. Some of what the girls said was really freaky. I feel sorry for Brooke. Anyway, I'm very lucky. I recently found out that I do have bad dreams, but I'm incapable of remembering them. Ha! ^_^
Finally got to the AHS parking lot, my dad picked me up, got home, BED.
And there you have it. The San Angelo meet. I probably left out many (unimportant) details. This is all you get.
~Scrapie |
posted by Scrapefoot the Brave @ 6:44 PM  |
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- Your hair looks cool straight.
- That was an extraordinarily long post.
- I guess this means you're bulimic. Sarah, you are not fat! I promise!
- Or maybe anorexic, since you didn't eat very much.
- Oh man. I wish I could have seen you listening to the girly/popular music. Was Ashlee Simpson involved?
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I like you better normal like.
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I don't know if Ashlee Simpson was involved, but all the girls in the car loved singing along to Baby Got Back. And that one song I don't know the name of that Chase put as his ringtone. And a bunch of songs from this movie I've never seen that was really girly. It was awful. And at the pool they played the worst song in the Universe...Stacy's Mom. UGH!!!
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I like that song.
I still hate this freaking secret code.
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Would you like it better if I got lots of spam comments?
It it really THAT much of an inconvenience!?
I THINK NOT! So get over it.
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I think a REE-EER is in order.
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Tori likes Jason, Tori likes Jaaasssooonnnn!!!
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- Your hair looks cool straight.
- That was an extraordinarily long post.
- I guess this means you're bulimic. Sarah, you are not fat! I promise!
- Or maybe anorexic, since you didn't eat very much.
- Oh man. I wish I could have seen you listening to the girly/popular music. Was Ashlee Simpson involved?