Stress vs. Surprises

As the semester draws to a close, I my lack of preparation shines through.  I have yet to raise enough money for Honduras, finish my photography stuff as well as my final and of course three other final projects plus a verbal conversation spanish final.  But good things have happened this week.

Let me start with Tuesday.  We had the sports banquet.  I had several awkward moments that evening.  Of course all the track people were already in there taking up two tables and I wanted to sit in the back where they were sitting so I was going to sit at the tables next to them.  (There were two rows) but after I walked over there, I saw a sign saying those tables were for the cycling team so I tried to smoothly cover it up by sitting at the first signless table.  Luckily, a few minutes later, the other girls came.  

So then we had to go up while coach talked about us.  The first award he gave out was the coach's award.  I got it and so when I walked over to him to accept it, I was going to shake his hand.  He just stood there looking at me and I mumbled so the microphone wouldn't pick it up that I was trying to shake his hand and he's like oh no give me a hug. So of course after that the other girls knew to just go ahead and give him a hug.  Cameron got most improved and Christine got MVP by the way.

Then after that, I was going to give coach his gift from the team.  He had already started walking off and so I had to call him back.  Then I got the microphone from him and said a couple sentences and tried not to sound nervous but I'm pretty sure I failed.  I was getting ready to show him the pictures (I had two framed) and I had them in one hand and the microphone in the other.  I didn't know what to do so after a few more awkward moments, I finally put the microphone down and then was going to show them to him but one was upside down.  Unfortunately I turned both of them around so I did no good.  So finally I got both straight and handed them to him and of course as I did, one of the 2 dollar frames broke.  So when I have him a hug, I apologized to him and again afterwards.  Oh well.  But he also gave us a team picture after in like this really nice frame so I was like uhhh.  But I got the coach's award!  It was a nice surprise. 

I have been worried about my fitness times with tennis since coach didn't let me run at all in the fall and the beginning of the spring.  I thought I would be so far behind everyone that I wouldn't be at their level.  Wellll, we had to run a mile yesterday.  I hate running in front of people so of course the cross country guys and the hurdlers were on the track.  But I usually run an 8:45 and the other girls are a lot faster.  But I finished in 8:24 so I was really happy with that and I was only like 20 seconds behind Amanda.  So once again, I was pleasantly surprised.

Tomorrow we run up Beech.  It's over four miles and basically all uphill.  Steep hills.  Not looking forward to it.  So to take my mind off of it, I am studying for finals.  In the library.  Until it closes as 11.  Again.