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about who exactly I am. I will be talking about my home away from home, and one
of the only sports I've been able ~o stick with for more than three years. @
I wrote about these topics because they are both very impof1:ant to me and
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I've been going to Scotland blue window frames and door, and a
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time I ever traveled out of the country with a big hedge bordering it. The
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old. I was going to Scotland to visit
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',home; My dad was born and raised in , we usuaUyaUcome together to catch
Scotland and he came over to the up with each other.
United States. Because only my dad
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famHy. For this reason, I am not only Onething I always like about ",
an American citizen, but a British Scotland is that there is always
citizen as weU. something new. Whether it is walking
t When visiting Scotland my down Princes St. in Edinburgh and
dad, mum, sister, and i always stay seeing aUthe new fashions, or
with our grandmother. My meeting new people in Perth. There
grandmother lives in a little one-story are always funny new stories or at
house, with a white exterior, with least a new variation of a story that
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1am walking into the gym, on grade, 'Idecided to jign up for the scIJool
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school. They have aU played before, fantastic. We would get out of school at3:20
and 1was comp!etely new to the with everyone else, and head up to the gym.
'" sport. Finally after what seemed like a Once'our coach came, we would get i'na , ,
century, the middle-school volleyball huge circle and stretch. O~e ofthe eighth
coach, came into the gym. Little did 1 graders on the team wou"ldcount out all the
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to play volleyball" counting, wewouJcI get in a long line and one
, 1started playing when 1was in by one, our coach would toss the ball to us
,fifth grade, as a part ,of an after school and we would pass it back. I loved this drill II
program. 1didn't really want to play because when you gave a good pass,
.. volleyball, but since 1wasn't a part of everyone could see it! We practked drills to
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mum decided 1had to pick one. After from 3:30 to 5:00. Bu~during that time, ,our ~
that volleyball program, in sixth, coach also always made time for us to play
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'andru;lesofplaying volleyball. But it
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was enough to satisfy my need to
the team. Because there were so few of U$iat
play. In eighth grade, Iwent to a try-
t out for The Outsiders Volleyball Club.
It was a long ,and anxious wait for me,
practices we all got the help and attention
we needed. At games we all got ~ nice
amount of time to play, and we all got to
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'know each other very well. We spent many
team or not. When I found out that I
good times together and became very good
made the team" I was practically, tll~
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bo~ncing ofthe walls. The Outsiders
with the girls on my volleyball team Vl(o~ld
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love we have for the sport. Waking up,at 5:30
I learned how'to control a pass, that
a.m. to drive to a volleyball tournament that
would have been impossible for me to
lasted from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. was the
have had passed before, to an over
If, best part of the whole season" because I got
~ hand serve that I have been previously
to spend my time with my friends, playing
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the time you got in the car and was , . , '~
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like playing at practiee. The gyms are huge, ~~
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half way home, you would already be
and loud, with tons of other teams,who all
sound asleep. But we learned so
have the same hope of wining. The fi(st
much, and my teammates and
game is usually the hardest; be,cause you are
coaches were so great, that leavi~g a~
still tired from waking up'at a ridiculously-
6:30 to drive to the gym, only to leave ):
early time to sit in a car for two hours to get
two long hours later, never seemed so
there. You have thirty minutes to warm-up'
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and practice before the game~ Then you line
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middle of the court and wave to all, point, but it is the back row passers job, to
the adoring fans a.k.a the volleyball keep the other team from getting any points
'"I moms and dads, and the occasional off of your team. I played back row for 'The
sibling who got dragged along. The Outsiders team, and that position 'is where I
, first few seconds of the game are the feel most comfor,table. It doesn't always
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serve, it decides whether you team is but just as mllch relies on the back roW, as it'
going to start of behind and does on the,setterand the,hitter. From
eventually lose the game, have a playing back row, I learned a great deal more
strong start and slowly have,your about responsibility"and how anything you
downfall, lose the first few points and do affects the team, for better or for worse.
come back inthe end to win the
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game, waiting for you to collect your ,far my favorite."
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things. You can watch the ball come volleyball has been by far my favorite. I ha,ve
to the passer, who passes it to the made many friends through it, and have had
setter, who sets it up for the hitter, to , tons of fun. Sometimes, when I am playing
hit it down onto the ground on the volleyball, I don'teven realize that I am
other teams cqurt. Or you can stop getting exercise and learning important
the speeding ball from hitting the lessons! It is almost impossiblefor me to be '
gro.,md, by digging it up high to the sad while playing volleyball, which is yet
setter, forthem to give a quickset to ~nother reason why I love it so much. '
the hitter, so they can slam the ball I have been playing,sincefifth grade,
down into the, other teams court. It and I hope to continue playing for a very long
,the hitter who gets, the points, and time.
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