1. Physical Experience
(First day to the end of
the first day)
The gym full of tired,
exhausted sweaty smells, each face looks as if they are on the last straw and
about to give up. There individual smiles are gone and the flush cheeks are the
only lasting…(can’t think what word)…… there. The noise of the irritating
instructor’s voice is introducing a migraine or massive head ache to the heads
of each performer. The blue flooring grasping your attention to keep going yet
your eyes begin to sink to the back of your heads and shut down from
exhaustion.
(The middle)
The pleasant clean hotel
room is intoxicated more and more as the sadness of my younger sister’s illness
progressed. The room is dark with changes of the temperature to hot then cold
continuously. The longer she is there the more the aura of the room feels sad, blue,
and discouraging.
(The end of camp)
My mom, frantically
running in from a 4 hour drive to get to my intoxicated room, with Laura
(sister) jailed in by the illness and the coaches keeping her (Laura) captive.
Laura (sister) not able
to answer the door or get out of bed or hear is hopelessly waiting for someone
to come for her rescue
Banging slashing at the
door with one employee of the hotel coming as if it was superman coming around
the corner to the rescue.
An ambulance rushing for
her and my family was off without me.
Now I was the one stuck
with the aura of the disheartening room and the disgust of my own coaches.
2. Scenes
Walls full of titles yet
showing the ugly cream colored cinderblocks
4 gyms put together 4
large soft blue mats covered in sweat with the texture of some sort of scratchy
carpet
A stage for the
instructors as large as half a mat or 18 feet long for every teammate to see
Spaces in between the
mats for coaches from all the teams to watch for progress
The entry way is the
original basketball wooden floor with Gatorade chews and Gatorade for in
between breaks
Gym filled with 8 large
teams of 25 or larger with each girl competing to do her best in this camp for
the summer
3. Speech
The instructor’s voice at
this camp was sharp, quick and hard to keep up with. As he counts one, two,
three, four, five, six, seven, eight constantly as he teaches with his sharp
tone each move.
The coaches of the other
teams in tune with each of their players coaching with vigorous and almost
frightening voices to make them better.
My coaches in the corner
are gossiping sounding like two little mice eating their own cheese.
The teammates all on the
floor annoyed with each other commenting back and forth over there frustration.
4.
Emotion in the moment
My team had made it
to the camp each of us leaping for joy and excited as we get all checked in to
the rooms.
We hit the giant
gym and see that there are far better athletes there. Our great feelings rushed
out and our real journey with the team began.
My coaches and I never
had seen eye to eye yet I had become captain, the fear crept into me that my
teammates and I thinking we could not do this. We walked slowly and glumly to
the group of everyone getting ready to introduce us “the Wolves”. Our emotion was gloomy thinking that we should
go back and start the bus.
My coaches stay in
the corner like cowards as if they acted they weren’t even part of the team.
My sister (Laura)
letting me know every so often that she isn’t doing well and each time her
reaction became less happy and more groggy. She was not doing well.
The emotion of the
team seeing that she had to leave and go to our room to take a break frightened
us. We did not think we had it in us to go through this camp.
Time went on and
gossip over ruled leaving Laura feeling like an outcast of the group.
My attitude towards
the other girls there changed to a sweet captain to their nightmare. I noticed
that they said personal things and I did not let that happen.
I abruptly spoke
with two girls that had started the gossip up after a scene with my mom had
come and gone.
The coach with a
disgusted face had me ride along in the extra car with her. The silence of each
other made it feel more prevalent of how deeply we despised each other or that
I had despised her.
5.
People of Consequence
Coaches: uncaring
of the team, each with their glitter shirts and hair sprayed hair perfectly
done almost as if they were there to impress the opposite gender.
Teammates: not
united, scared of what was to come, apathetic over each other
Laura: Happy, Ready
to go, the star of the team, Best tumbler, sweetest one, the girl who kept the
team together
Mom:
Always ready, doesn’t always believe others, helps in any w
-japanese fan
