Why I Didn't Make the Divisonals and what I am Going to do about it.

   So I didn't make the Divisonals for the swim team. The Divisonals are a meet that the best people of each team in each division come and compete. It could be called a division finals to some people. I was about to get into the Divisonals for  breaststroke but suddenly Kyle beat me by 1 second so then I didn't make the Divisonals.

   To get in the Divisonals next year I am going to train hard when I go to the pool. I would swim IMs so I could practice each stroke while swimming one thing. In freestyle I want to breathe quicker and kick faster. In backstroke I want to get a faster kick and have faster arms. For breaststroke I just want to go a lot faster I was this year. And for butterfly I want to have a big kick and a small kick for each stroke. Do you have any goals for your swimming?

Relay Carnival Swim Meet 2013

       Do you like swimming relays?Well on 6/23/13 I went to a swim meet only for relays. I swam one event, breaststroke for the boys 9-10 IM relay. The order went like this, backstroke then breaststroke after that it was butterfly and finally it was freestyle. I was swimming with my really fast friends. Eric was doing backstroke, I did breaststroke, Kyle did butterfly and Alex did freestyle. We were racing all other teams in our division. Those teams had better older people but bad younger kids so our team mostly won every event in the relay carnival.

       When we had warm up it was the shortest warm up I ever had in my life. It was fifteen minutes long but it felt like five minutes in the water. All I did was an IM and a dive. One end was like a regular pool, but the deep end was thirteen feet deep. If you look above the water it may not look that deep but when you enter the water from the deep side it would look really deep. Thirteen feet is longer than the well at our local pool. Our pool only goes up to ten feet six inches.

       When the meet started it was the relays for the older kids (13-18). They were mostly IM so four people were on each team. The order was butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. We got first in a few events and suddenly we got a third place on an event. The same thing happened for a long time. Then it started to rain and it was almost my event so we had to wait for all the thunder and rain to stop.

      We had to wait for the rain to stop so we could resume swimming. We waited for about 30 minutes and we could resume. After the 8 and under girls Medley relay we started our event. First Eric sprinted backstroke, then I sprinted breaststroke,then Kyle sprinted butterfly and Alex finished it of with a sprint freestyle. When we were finished we were ahead from the 2nd place team by 25 meters.

     It was a really good Relay Carnival. Hopefully I get invited to more Relay Carnivals in the future!

Despicable Me 2

        One day when I came back from swimming practice I found out that my friend Daniel was going to watch Despicable Me 2 and I was invited. I went to Daniel's house to get ready to watch the movie. After we ate lunch we went to Regal Movie Theaters to watch Despicable Me 2. Soon I found out that we were watching it in 3D. 

     When we got in side the theater we had to watch a ton of advertisements. When I mean ton I mean like 20 advertisements. Once the movie started we wore our 3D glasses and I felt like everything in the movie was in front of my face.  This is the movie after Despicable Me. If you didn't watch the first movie you shouldn't watch the second movie. 

    It starts of at a girl's birthday party. Gru the dad has to be a princess fairy instead of the real one because he real one refuses to come to the party. The girl knows it's her dad but she pretends to be amazed so the other kids will believe the fairy is real. Soon the dad gets dragged away into a secret organization and has to work for them. He has to find a dangerous chemical that can destroy anything he has to go undercover at the mall and find who has the chemical and send them to jail.

    He works at a place called Make Your Own Cupcake in the mall so he can find the person who stole the destructive chemical. There was one guy Gru was very suspicious about. He owns a Mexican restaurant and he looked like a super villain that rode a shark into a volcano. Gru soon finds him self in a hair/wig shop and found the chemical. The boss thanks him for doing nothing and leaves him.

    Soon there was a Cinco Di Mayo party held by the owner of the Mexican restaurant. The owner went to a secret room that had a password so Gru was curious and followed. He got through all of the pass codes and found out he was a super villain. Since Gru found out he was villain he was going to kill him with minions he put chemicals on. But suddenly his children used jelly guns to turn them back to normal. Then Gru used a fart gun on the super villain. Then the super villain fainted and went to jail.

        Despicable Me 2 is a great movie. It is funny, has action and some romance. You should watch the movie too!