Tennis tournament awesomeness

I played two matches today and won both. The first match was against one of my friends from school. He started playing tournaments when he was nine. We had a good match that took almost two hours, and in the end it was 6-2,6-2. For my second match (the finals of the consolation bracket) I played another one of my friends who is a good tennis player. It was his first tournament, too. The match was really tough,lots of long points. My feet were throbbing afterwards, but in the end it was 7-5,6-1. So for my first tournament I think I did pretty good.

Tennis tournament

I played in my first tournament today, and I lost 6-3,6-1 in the first round. My opponent was very good, in fact he is the number one seed because he plays lots of tournaments. I had to be tough with him because he changed the score a couple of times in his favor even though he was winning.I play in the consolation round tomorrow. That should be more fun.

resting day

This is my resting day, after all I did tennis and got a haircut (which I hate getting done) yesterday and I don't feel like doing anything, but tomorrow is lunch then laser tag. Over the weekend I am going to a tennis tournament and this is the first one I have ever done so it will be an interesting experience. I am also going to another soccer camp next week. So week and weekends with lots of fun.

Tennis and resting

I just got done playing tennis and doing some very painful fitness. Now, I have not played tennis in a week, so I hit about 60% of my shots out. So today was not my tennis day. Now to fitness. Tennis is hard enough as it is, add fitness, and drinking hot, dirty hose water would be better. In fitness today we had to jog, run, jog backwards and other things about four times each, then we did what we call seventeens, where you have to run across the court, doubles line to doubles line, seventeen times twice, then do about eight suicides, and if you think that is easy you are out of you mind. So right now I am resting. And it is wonderful.

More about Pennsylvania to present and future

On Sunday my grandmother's son's children came to my grandparents' house. They are brothers. Mark Robert is 12, and David is 10. We hung out, played checkers, and they brought their iTouchs, which have hundreds upon hundreds of apps, mainly games. Later we went outside to play four-square. After we had been playing about twenty minutes, a mean next-door neighbor said to stay away from his new car, which was 20 feet away from where we were playing. He was not nice about it, so we played soccer on the grass in front of my grandparents' condominium until we got bored. We went back in and used the iTouchs until it was time for them to go home.

On our trip back we went a different route through Ohio, but we accidentally started going north towards Cleveland rather then southwest towards Kentucky. We got straightened out. The weather was a problem, too. There were severe storms moving across Ohio, and we didn't want to drive through the middle of them. Fortunately, we missed the worst part of the storms.

Yesterday, one of my friends from Columbus came. We threw my football and ate ice cream at his grandmother's house until about 9 p.m., then we called it a night. He is staying until Tuesday. On Friday I am going to play laser tag with some friends at Champs so I cannot wait for that.

Grandparent's house

Yesterday when we got into New Castle we went to my grandmother's house, where she asked me about my favorite subjects in school and about sports I play. And my grandfather told some stories about when he was younger. While I was there they got me a tennis bag to carry my stuff in because you have no idea how much I drop my racket and water bottle. Right now we are getting ready to go eat lunch with my grandmother's son, who has two boys my age, so I think this will be fun. If you are doing anything or taking trips this summer please write a comment.

On a trip to Pennsylvania

I am on a trip in the car to Pennsylvania to visit my grandparents for three days and I cannot wait to see them. We are taking a different route than last time because there is a lot of construction around Cincinnati. We are driving through eastern Kentucky, and West Virginia is next. I am not used to seeing all these trees and hills. I think it is pretty neat.

Sleepover Day

I am going to a sleepover tonight. It is with one of my friends I haven't seen in a while. He has a pool, so we will be able to go swimming. We are also going to have a water balloon fight. From time to time we will play on his Wii but of course I do not have one or any other video game stations :(, so it is fun when I get to. I get to play some games on my parents' iPad but I have to read, practice piano, and write a blog post before I am allowed to use it.

Summer reading

So I have started my book on man-made disasters. It is amazing how people ignore things that cause disease and even kill people. You can tell that the people creating the waste are pretty greedy because they deny everything even after doing tests, like in the story I recently read about where this company in Japan was dumping mercury into the water with their chemicals that infected the fish and the people that ate them. But of course it is not always companies. For example, in England a giant soot cloud covered everything in London, but it was made by everybody using their fireplaces not just a company.
If anybody is doing summer reading please comment about it.

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Tennis in the heat.

I am taking tennis lessons this summer with Jo and a group of kids I have been playing with for a while. Today we had to play outside while the sun was boiling on our backs. Now something different about these courts is that they are clay so the ball bounces much higher, and it is much harder to play. We really just did a bunch of consistency drills and singles. But, of course, we had to end with cardio tennis, which makes you beg for  mercy. I was glad when we were finished, but, unfortunately my mom forgot my swimsuit.

Yesterday and the things going on today.

Yesterday, even though it was the first day after school, I had to go clothes shopping because in the fall I have to follow the ridiculous dress code. We also bought some new shoes that are shaped literally like a foot, and they are water shoes so they're pretty neat. We also got a couple graduation cards and gifts for some friends. Also, we went to the bookstore to buy the books I needed for summer reading. Now today I am going to do my final soccer game at 1:00, and I cannot wait, but the thing is, my coach can't be there so my mom and another parent are going to coach. 

Last day of school

IT IS THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL AND I AM PSYCHED. This is going to be a big summer but of course I couldn't have gotten through the year without my 5th grade teacher, Mr. Clark who is unfortunately going to teach at a different school called Simmons Elementary school in Versailles, Ky., and for those of you who don't know where he taught before it is Meadowthorpe Elementary in Lexington,Ky. Anybody who knows me at all please comment.