| I haven't been at my house in a while. This weekend I was at Albert Pike with my dad and my brothers. I hate outside. But if I had gone with friends instead of with my dad it would have been fun. Monday morning I left to go to Lake Degray. I got to spend a lot of time with Ian and just get out of the house, so it wasn't that bad. There was a waterpark with 2 slides. I went down one of them but the other one just didn't look like much fun. I got dunked a lot, but they gave me a chance to hold my breath so it was ok.
Oh, and I really didn't like my team. When we were doing things that required intelligence, like dropping eggs from balconies without breaking them, or coming up with a skit, none of them would listen to me. At one point during writing the skit I had given up on participating because they had excluded me, until I had a really good idea. I remember that they were standing in a circle brainstorming, and I squeezed through to the middle and was jumping up and down saying "I have an idea!" I had to shout that about five times before I could even get their attention, and when they heard my idea they just said, "That wouldn't work." By the way, I can be really funny sometimes. I have a vivid imagination and I can make people laugh. What they came up with, without my help, wasn't nearly as funny as things I've done with people I can actually work with. And when I do work with other people, I don't just make them do whatever I want them to. The kind of people I can work with are people who have good ideas and also listen to other's ideas, and that's the kind of person I am too, but I'll admit that I do take over in a way. It's like I decide who gets to speak and when, but I give everyone a chance to say what they want to say, and then we all talk about it and try to make it work. That's the kind of teamwork we could have had if my teammates had been willing to try.
Yesterday morning they made us run 3 laps around the hotel we were staying at. This was at 6:45 in the morning and I was already sore. There are some kinds of physical exertion that I can handle. I can keep going all day, or all night, as it may be. For example, if I accidentally throw Ian's phone across the room while we're watching Pirates of the Caribbean and he tells me I've lost my phone priviledges, I could wrestle with him for as long as it took to secure my rights to the phone. However, I can't keep running for very long. I can run about as fast as the average person, but I don't have much stamina. So, this sort of a race we were running was supposed to be done as a team. In fact, it was judged by how well the team stayed together and helped each other out, rather than who was first at the finish line. Of course, my team was in last place. Instead of taking turns carrying me like Ian's team did for Carly Frix, they tried dragging me and they all complained the whole way. They were all kind of small except for Charles Rigsby so I really don't think they could have carried me very far. He did carry me for about 10 feet, but it was useless. There was one girl on my team (I won't give names) who was still complaining about me on the bus ride back to Texarkana. I don't know if I made my team look bad; I think I just made myself look lazy. If I had run any more than I did I would have made myself sick. So, I'm sorry guys. I'm sorry I'm not an athlete. I'm sorry you wouldn't use my strengths or try to make up for my weaknesses to better the team. Actually, I'm not sorry. It's not my fault. I never thought my lack of athletic ability would affect y'all negatively. It's your fault for not working as a team.
Well, it's over now. I just wanted to rant a little because it pissed me off. I guess it doesn't matter now. We didn't win the 50 dollars. I would have spent it all on candy anyway.
There was this speaker who was really cool. Some of the other girls described him as "cute," but I wouldn't say that. I just think he was cool. And he was funny. But he also taught us something. Still, I don't think I'm ever going to use those 7 habits. It's too structured, I guess. I just want to have fun.
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-Kristyn
Fa-ji-ta. We work as a team. And we're completely free of isten-shiza and caca de toro. Oh, and bullshit. We're fresh out of that, too. |
