RMCS Elimination

Swimming is one of the sports in my life that is infused with my schedule. It usually go 3 times a week to swim practice and another few times just to practice on my own. So on one practice we were doing eliminations because it was nearing the end of the practice and it was also a Friday. It was when you start out with six people or less in a lane. The top three move on. But if it progress far enough where there is only three people or two, only the winner of that round moves on.

On the first game of elimination, we had to do backstroke or butterfly. I screwed up on the second round because I saw other people freestyle so I though I could swim it as well. Turns out only people under 10 could swim freestyle so I was out. Eventually it was left to little kids because freestyle was the fastest stroke. At last a little kid named Adam won by only swimming freestyle.

On the second game of elimination, all everyone could swim was freestyle. This was good for me because I can sprint freestyle really fast. What also helped was that the lengths of each round were only 25 meters. So I just sprinted as fast as I could to get to the finish line. I was always moving up until I messed up. On my dive in I slipped and there were three other girls who were going to beat me. I had to use up most of my energy and eventually got to the finish in first but just barely. On the final race I had barely any energy left but I was up against a girl that was younger than I was. I thought this would be easy but she was pretty fast so I just sprinted as fast as I could and reached the finish line before her. I had won the elimination! I was happy and went to take a shower because we were done.

McLean Day

On 5/16/15 I went to the McLean day festival not expecting anything crazy. But when I entered, it just looked like a regular place with tents that had sponsors advertising until you walked in deeper. It was like a carnival, flashing lights, colossal rides, food carts that sold cotton candy, sno-cones, corn dogs, funnel cakes and much more! Sadly though, when I arrived, the festival was already starting to end, people were packing the rides up and walking out of the festival area so I had to make the best out of the situation. 

I saw many games that could be played such as those where you try to ring a small ring onto a bottle hoping that you would win. You could just get one ring on a bottle and you would have a stuffed animal that was a titan compared to other stuffed animals. Another game was similar to that one but in this one you have balls and you try to throw them into bottle. If you threw your ball into a cup, you would get the goldfish that was in the cup. Thankfully the goldfishes didn't get squished.

Some rides you could go on were ones that took you high into the air and then dropped you. You could hear the screams of terror as the people on the ride were falling. Another thing you could do was play a shooting game that simulated using real guns. You would have a gun and you would also have a mini paper target. You had to try and hit the middle with the limited amount of ammo you were supplied with. Many rides had flashing lights on the sides so the whole place was colorful. One especially noticeable ride was one that included it spinning repeatedly in a bunch of directions. 

I would have more fun here if I didn't come when it was going to end because of my swim practice. At least I saw some cool rides and got a sno-cone.  

RMSC Spring Finale Meet

Today I went to a RMSC swim meet to compete with other RMSC teams. The pool where we competed at was where I usually practiced so it was closer to my home than others. I was going to swim three events, 100 meter freestyle, 50 meter backstroke and 100 meter breaststroke. What was interesting was that this was my first winter meet and it was 50 meter lengths.  The only age group that was going to participate was 11 and 12's.

First we had warm ups. Each RMSC team got into a lane and started to practice. Each team had different practice routines. We did a lot of freestyle while also practicing on other strokes we were planing to compete in. Somethings we did were 2 100 meter freestyle and 2 100 meter non-freestyle. They were 50 swim 50 kick. We also did 50 meter sprints diving from each end.

Soon the meet began and it started off with IM. It took about an hour until I was going to get called up because there were a lot of heats of IM before my first event which was 100 meter freestyle. When I was starting to swim, I was going as fast as I could. I was in first by a landslide until it was time to do a flip turn at 50 meters. I ran out of energy to swim and I slowly made it to the wall. In the end I wasn't last and beat about 1/4 of the total people who raced in that event.

Event number 2 was a 50 meter backstroke. I knew I wasn't good at this because over the summer I swam this and got 50 seconds as my fastest time. So I just jumped in the water and swam backstroke as fast as I could. In the end I had done better than my summer time because I dropped 6 seconds and got 44 seconds.

My last event was the 100 meter breaststroke. Breaststroke was my best stroke and it was also my friend, Clayton's best stroke as well. We were both in the same heat and so we had an unofficial race to see who could win. There was one guy in our heat who was really fast and zoomed by everyone. But at least most of the race I was second and Clayton was third. But in the end I must have slowed down so we were in a close race. I had to use up all my energy to zoom to the finish and beat him by one second. In the end, it didn't really matter.

Breaking Part of a Freezer

Well for sure one thing I learned today was that I can force part of a freezer to break off. It all started when I was hungry for some ice cream so I decided to open the freezer and take it out. But, there was something preventing the freezer from opening, and it was a box of Magnum Ice Cream Bars. I successfully got my ice cream out but when I was going to put it back in, bad things happened...

When I tried to put my ice cream box back in, the freezer, as expected was still jammed by those ice cream bars. So I gave the freezer a tug and then chaos emerged. The things that were holding the ice cream bars back gave out and parts of the freezer broke off. As a result there was ice spilled on the floor, food items were on the ground (most of them were packaged) and a bunch of sophisticated pieces of plastic on the ground.

I alerted my parents and pretty much got into trouble. They tried fixing it but parts of the plastic were broken off so they had to give up and take most of the things out of the freezer. In the end I hid in my room ashamed that I broke our new fridge.