Palmerston North

It was really loud on the way up because the music was really loud and every on was singing and I brought lots of lollies on the way up. I was in a room with just about all the oldest in my team expect me because even though I am the tallest in the team I am the second youngest. We got all of our rooms ready and then went to bed. In the morning we were awake first so we made our lunches. It was really hot so we didn’t have to wear all of our heavy gear. The courts were about 5mins away from our motel so we left quite late but we left early enough so we could warm up before our first game. We had about 5 games but they were really short. They were 6minute quarters so all together it was 24mimutes. I was really tired at the end because I had no times off and I was playing Goal Defence for the whole time. When we had finished our coach told us who was player of the day and she chose me. I was really happy and so was dad because he had come to watch for the day. Mum said that she really wanted to come but a truck was coming at about 10:00 so it was too late for her to travel up to Palmerston North and back again. She said that she was really sorry. When we got back to the motel Hannah my coach had the bath run warmish hot and two buckets of ice. What we had to do was but our feet in freezing cold ice and then after a minute we had to quickly get into a hot bath and put our feet in that, then we had to get back into the ice and after a minute we had to get into the hot water again and then we could go and get changed out of our wet clothes into dry clothes and then watch every body else do what we did. I went first with another girl called Evie. Since we were first we had to have to coldest ice but then it wouldn’t work as well. What it was meant to do was loosen our calf muscles so then we would be able to play better the next day. In the morning the next day it was really cold and spitting, so we did wear our heavy gear!!!! When we got into our van it was nice and hot so I started taking of my jackets and stuff put I couldn’t really because it was all squashed because we were going home today and we weren’t coming back to the motel so we had to bring all of our bags and stuff. Since I just about coughed all night I was really tired but I still tried to play my best. When we got there it was freezing cold and it was still spitting a little bit. Some teams had just started their first game and we were next so we had to get warmed up. But before we started warming up we just started shooting. Then we started warming up after about 10 minutes. After about half an hour we had our first game it was really easy so we won by heaps. Then we warmed up again like 10 minutes before our next game that game was also so easy so we bashed them as well!!! The next game was against a harder team but we still bet them but I don’t think the score was very high. Sometimes we just don’t play very well and we get great intercepts and we just chuck it away that is most probably why we kept on loosing against the A taranaki team. My coach keeps on saying that since they are called the ‘A’ team then they are way better than us. But the only reason that we keep on loosing against them because 1. We weren’t playing as a team and 2. We kept on throwing the ball away. Even though I totally thought that they were going to waste us the first and second time we didn’t lose by lots witch was really lucky. After prize giving we got back into our very squishy van all wet and stinky and started on the rode home. It wasn’t as squishy as before because lots of parents came to watch and they took their children home so only about 6 of us stayed on the bus. Even though Silvia came to watch I still had to go in the van with the others. We ate all the lollies that dad had brought for us and then I started to feel sick even though I didn’t show it. When we were getting closer to where I had to get of I started to feel home sick or something in my tummy started to do something and for some strange reason I started to cry. When every one was asking what was wrong I didn’t no what to say so I just nodded my head and stuff like that because I did not no what to say. When we got to Hawera Silvia was waiting for me and a couple of other parents were waiting for their kids. I got or of the van and then I remembered that I didn’t have the quiche dish that I had put my potato bake into. I had left in Ricky’s mum’s car. Ricky is a girl from my team she is a really good WA and she never plays centre. Hannah said that I would get it next practice. When I got into Silvia’s car she asked where I wanted to go and get something to eat I said that I already had, had a burger because we had stopped at Mc Donald’s and I had brought a burger. Even though Hannah said that we were just going to go straight home. So Silvia was a bit grumpy about that. Because otherwise Silvia had stopped at Mc Donald’s as well but any way!!! On the way home we had to stop at Hannah and Greg’s place because Roma and Caterina had slept there the night before they came up to Palmerston North and they had left a couple of things there. When we had got home Nina had made a cake to celebrate how we came second. It was really pretty but I didn’t feel like anything to eat because I had lots to eat on the way home. But she had also made a drink so I drank that!!! I had a bath and I stayed in there for ages until mum shouted at me to get out so then I got our put on my PJ’s and then dad rubbed my sore calf’s and then I went to bed. I fell asleep real quickly because I only had 1 half off dring the whole 2 games.