April 30th

Um since I have like nothing to blog about, I’m just going to blog about a moment that happened two years ago. So like two years ago my siblings were in soccer, and they loved it. It wasn’t actually like a season cause they kept no record, and there were only like six games. So one day my sister and brother had practice. My brother was supposed to be practicing shooting, running, and passing while my sister did shooting, tackling, running, and passing. So for the next two hours I would have to sit with my parents and grandparents watching my siblings practice. After like an hour I got bored so I decided to play with some little boys who were playing with one giant goal. They said yes and we all did a 2v2, but of course I have to stick with some seven year old boy. But even though the teams were unfair I still had fun. Because man was it so funny seeing me destroying them. Everywhere I went they couldn’t touch me or the ball. I was either too fast or too strong. I would be scoring over and over and over. Until these two other boys that seem to know the two boys we were against decided to play also. Then they came up with the idea of doing a 4v2. But even with that huge disadvantage, we still won. Oh yeah I almost forgot, while we were playing it started to rain really hard. So like all the teams either left or wilted for the rain to stop, but we just kept playing until one of the boys parents said they had to go.

Oh yesssss, only one more blog to go. But anyways, I hoped you enjoyed today’s blog. Update: Never mind, I forgot there is only 30 days in April. My bad, so that means today is the last day of the Slice if Life Challenge. Welp, I hoped you enjoyed this as much as I did.












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                                                                                                                                                 Aaliyah K.

April 29th

Today was a pretty boring day so like if you’re are super bored maybe this blog will cure your bored ness. So after a boring but good day at school, I went home to eat pizza! After I got finished I was told that I had basketball practice today. But that’s not what today’s blog is about. So after I got done I cleaned up, did some laundry, did the dishes, got my uniform ready for tomorrow, got my basketball cloths ready, charged my siblings iPads, and did homework for the next two hours. But I was pretty bored when I was getting my cloths ready so I decided to play on my PS4. So like since I had nothing to do I just challenged myself in a scrimmage mode on one of my basketball games, where all of my five players had to score exactly 60 points on a 100% shooting percentage. I may or may not have adjusted the sliders a bit but this challenge is suppose to be possible. It was actually really difficult because you had to count each point halfway for each player. Cause I like to balance things a lot. So my players would first score 10 threes which would equal 30 points, then they would score another 30 points but instead of three pointers it would be layups or jumps shots. But sometimes the players could be on the line and count the basket as a two, or maybe score a little bit too many points. So after like six tries I finally beat the challenge and got back to my routine before basketball practice.

I hoped you enjoyed today’s blog, and I’m so excited cause I have to only do two more blogs! Whipeeeee!
















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                                                                                                                                                 Aaliyah K.

April 28th

Welcome back, in this blog I will be continuing my previous blog. If you’ve forgotten let me refresh your memory. “Today I had a 3-game basketball tournament! One at 8:55, one at 10:15, and one at 12:45. But I played three more games in between those games cause my coach wanted me to play with the 8th-9th grade girls. Which means some of the other teams girls were going to be freshmen!” So I left off where I was playing with my 6th-7th grade girls in the championship. So we played against this team that looked kinda tough. Why, because they had about four girls who were tall as heck. At first the game was all about defense, steals, blocks, turnovers, even almost making fast break points. But after a while we started gaining a lead. After the first quarter the other team was still at 0 points while we had 15. Then after that the game was a sudden blowout. We were playing better on offense, making our layups/three pointers, and even playing great defense. They may have scored once at the free throw line but we still pulled out to win. After we got done taking photos I thought it was time to go home, but my coach said he wanted me to stay for one more game at 2. I said yes but really he didn’t need me at all. Cause during the game like he would be me and a friend of mines in for like two minutes. Four minutes was the longest he ever put us in throughout the whole day! But like the problem just isn’t him, cause whenever I get open I’m either not passed the ball, or the girl with the ball just drives towards me which makes me move out the way. But you know what happened after they decide not to pass it to me, it’s either a turnover or a terribly forced shot. So yeah I don’t even know how we won in double overtime, but my friend and I were really angry at the end. And I’m not even being salty, literally like we could’ve just left in the middle of the game and it would be ok cause they didn’t need us at all. So yeah after the game we took a couple of pictures and then said our goodbyes.

I hoped you enjoyed today’s blog, and I almost forgot to said this but, after I got home I took a shower and ate, my family and I went to go watch Avengers: End Game!











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April 27th

Today I had a 3-game basketball tournament! One at 8:55, one at 10:15, and one at 12:45. But I played three more games in between those games cause my coach wanted me to play with the 8th-9th grade girls. Which means some of the other teams girls were going to be freshmen! I was so excited, but what I didn’t know was that I wasn’t going to get much playing time. So for our first game we went against a very bad team. We blew them out by a lot but it wasn’t just one or two players. Because our coach had actually fused the 7th and 6th grade girls together. So basically everyone had two or three chances at making a shot. Not all of them made their shots, but at least everyone got a chance. After that it was the older girls first game. And I was actually one of the starting five! Yeah, it may have been that three 8th graders were coming late but who cares, I got to start against freshmen! So like I had 2 chances at first to try and score, but let me tell you, scoring against freshmen is very difficult as a 6th grader. So for my first shot which was a three I air balled badly. My second shot which was a driving layup got blocked. But here’s the funny thing, the girl who blocked didn’t even have to jump. And lastly with like 9 minutes left in the game I took a jumper and got blocked from behind. It was a bad start at first, but I still had four more games to play. So back to my original team, this was was a tough team at first, but then we got our momentum back and won 22-5. I then played with the 8th-9th grade girls again, but for this game I barely played at all. The only times I did go in two things happened. I missed a wide open layup, and I scored a wide open layup. I may have been subbed out on the next play, but I just scored against freshmen! Then it was back to the 6th-7th grade girls. But this time was the championship game.

Ok since this blog is getting a little long I’m going to continue this in my next one. But I hoped you enjoyed today’s blog.











     
                                                                                                                                                   Sincerely,
                                                                                                                                                 Aaliyah K.

April 26th

Today I had another softball game. But not with my own team, but with Berwyn’s Juniors. Yep, since the coach off the team needed two more players, I and one if my teammates offered to play in that spot. But this wasn’t the only time I’ve played with older girls in softball. Last time this happened, I was in 4th grade! So once my dad and I got there, all the girls on the team started hugging me. Why you may ask, well because I played with all the girls on this team in Fall Ball. So after like 30 minutes of practicing/warmups it was game time. So for some reason I led off, but for the first pitch I wasn’t suppose to swing. Why, because the team we were playing this was their first softball team since 1951! Yeah, I just decided to help a random team and then I’m received with such honor. So after the first pitch which was given to the manager of the team, the game had now officially begun. So I went 1-4. (I forgot if a walk counts, but I’m still going to count it) Three strikeouts and a walk. Yeah so like the pitches were coming in fast and let me remind you, I was playing against 14-15 year olds. Or as we call them, Juniors. So on my walk, I couldn’t steal second cause there was a girl already there. But after a walk I was able to get to second, then the catcher throws a bad “pass” to the pitcher which goes into the outfield. And because of that, the runner on third and me on second made it to home. Then since none of their catchers were there, I catched. I did pretty good, I stopped some wild pitches, almost got someone out a home, and made good throws to second. Even after the game, people were complementing me about how good I was doing. I was very happy with myself, and even though I only scored once on the field, I did a great job when catching.

I hoped you enjoyed today’s blog, and I can’t wait until I finish the Slice of Life blog Challenge!









     
             
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                                                                                                                                                 Aaliyah K.

April 25th

Today I had a softball game! So I don’t know if I’ve blogged about my second game, but right now we’re 2-0. But this game was meant to be more competitive because were were going against Riverside. The team who purposely forfeited against Brookfield (who was in last place) to play us and eliminate us. Yeah but it seems like all their older/travel girls had moved up a level with the juniors I think so we wouldn’t be seeing them again. So this game we only had 10 girls come to the game. But I mean in our last game, all of our girls showed up. But 7/10 of our team was made up of pitchers. So you may think, oh well you might lose since you don’t have the right players at the positions. Well, you’re wrong! Cause all of our pitchers have a secondary position like right field, center field, left field, shortstop, and second. And you may be thinking, well you only stated five positions even though they’re seven pitchers. But the reason I did this was because one of those seven pitchers were pitching, and another one of those seven pitchers was sitting out cause we had 10 girls with only nine positions to play in. Yeah so back to the game, my highlights were getting hits like singles and doubles, stealing bases, picking off a careless runner at first, having good throws to second and third, (I almost got outs) and my best highlight was when I was at third and the pitcher slowly walked back to the mound without looking at me, so I took off and stole home with a clean slide. My teammates highlights were having great pitching, outstanding hitting/fielding, and great chants/teamwork. So we won 15-3 and we’re official 3-0!

I hoped you enjoyed today’s blog, maybe we might go 4-0 in our next game.















                                                                                                                                                   Sincerely,
                                                                                                                                                 Aaliyah K.

April 23rd

Today my siblings and I got an exiting surprise. So my mom had told us that our uncle was going to take us out to eat. Well it wasn’t our uncle, it was actually our grandparents! Why may I seem surprise seeing my grandparents, well because the last time we saw them was three months ago! We were so exited, that we didn’t know where to eat. Cause they had asked us where we would want to eat. I obviously said Red Lobster since I love that place but I took a hard and rejected no. But then my sister said we should go eat at Famous Dave’s near the mall. And what did she get, a graceful yes. Well it would be a yes for me since it’s been a long time since the last time we ate there. So we went over there and order the All-American barbecue feast. (At least that’s what I think it’s called) It didn’t take us long until we fully devoured the feast. I took all of the cole-slaw cause I love it, and yes I did ask if anyone wanted anything but they said no. After we finished my grandma decided to get this brownie-nut-ice cream-sundae. It was very delicious, so after we finished I think the bill was like $108. But anyways, we thanked our grandparents and said goodbye until next weekend.

I hoped you enjoyed today’s blog, and if you get the chance go to Famous Dave’s and order the brownie-nut-ice cream-sundae.












                                                                                                                                                   Sincerely,
                                                                                                                                                 Aaliyah K.