This summer was filled football and music, the two things I love to do the most. Monday through Thursday at nine a.m. I was at the school to lift with our football team. It is very demanding to wake up somewhat early in the summer, but it was fun seeing all of my friends so much during the summer. Our 7-on-7 team had a great summer going up against some of the top teams in the Quad City Area such as Moline, Rock Island, Assumption, and Bettendorf. We played in two diffeerent 7-on-7 tournaments this summer and at both finished 3-1. One of the tournaments included a lineman challenge, consisting of a bunch of tasks that linemen would incounter during the season. Our schools linemen finished 2nd out of 40 teams! Now football season is getting under way and I'm looking forward to a great season!
The other half of my summer consisted of playing with my band. We played three shows this summer, but were some of the biggest shows we have ever played as a band. Our first show of the summer was at the motorcycle ralley called Ralley on the River. When we first showed up it was very hectic and unorganized. We showed up at 10 a.m. to set up our stuff for our show at 1 p.m.We ended up not setting up until 1:30 p.m. and had to cut our set shorter so that the bands after us were on time. In the end we played a great show and got a lot of postive feedback from everyone at the show. Our second show was just 2 weeks ago at the Orion Band Shell's 100th birthday celebration. This show also was interesting because just earlier that week I had burnt my arm. I had second degree burns all up my right arm and wasnt sure if I was going to be able to play drums or not. The night before I decided to suck up the pain and play the show. We played a great show and again got a lot of possitive feedback. I got a lot of complements about playing so well with a burnt arm, but I knew it was going to be a great show no matter what. Our last show was just last week at the music festival River Roots Live at LeClaire Park in Davenport. Our last show of the summer ended up being our best show and least hectic. After the show as we were tearing down our gear a lady that none of the band members knew asked us to sign her shirt! She said it was very rare that she liked a band as much as she liked ours. That put a smile on my face making someones day just because my friends and I got up on a stage and did what we love to do.
In the end it was a fun summer. Sure I didn't take any fancy trips or do something crazy, but I did what I love to do. Thats why this summer was one of my favorite and I can't wait until next summer!
Talk about how you feel about going into this season and describe the excietment of being second in forty teams in the linemen challenge.Did not have a clear topic, is it about football or music? have an opening paragraph stating what your summer is about, or have your own paragraph for football. Use description words to describe the pain you were in when you were burnt.
ReplyDeleteI think you need to have a clear grabber and an opening paragraph. Then, you should start another paragraph and have it be about just football. You could also talk about football a little more. Maybe explain the 7-on-7 games or go into more detail about the lineman challenge. I liked when you talked about your music. It was exciting and made me want to keep reading. Overall there were a few grammar corrections here and there, but I thought you explained your topic of the paper pretty well.
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