Gathering of the Tribes

I have this lacrosse tournament thingy called Gathering of the Tribes. GOTT is basically when a bunch of high school lacrosse teams get together and battle it out to get into the championship game. JV boys vs. JV boys, JV girls vs. JV girls, Varsity boys vs. Varsity boys, and Varsity girls vs. Varsity girls. That's pretty much how it goes down. We get four games, and the championship game if we make it.

Today we had two games. Tomorrow we will have two games. It was super exciting and fun. I really enjoyed playing. The first game was awesome and we won 11-01. We kicked ass. The second game we unfortunately lost, but that was because of many factors.

The first reason was because the other team was cheating. They would push our girls onto the ground while going for a ground ball. That's very illegal in lacrosse. They would also had a lot of crease violations. A crease violation is where any player, besides the goalie, crosses into the goal crease with either her stick or body. This is how they scored their last point. They would also pull a lot more illegal moves, which was not cool on their part.

Another reason we lost was because the other team didn't have enough girls sign up this year, so their team is pretty much JV and Varsity combined. So I guess it is pretty impressive we only lost by one point.

The other reason was that the referees were being unfair. They would call our team for things that the other team did, such as illegal checking. They would also call us for everything, even if they didn't happen, while they never called the other team for anything illegal they did. It was pretty obvious that the refs were favoring the other team. I just don't think that's cool. Also, after the game, we were running towards out goalie as we usually do, and I heard one of the refs say something that was totally rude and uncalled for.

So the other team scored the first goal and I heard the ref at the end of the game say "Once they scored the first goal I knew they were going to win," So she was basically saying that she knew we were going to lose and she just went and had to be a bitch about. Within earshot. I'm sorry for ranting, but all of this just pisses me off. I hate it when teams cheat and when refs favor. It's not cool at all. Thanks for reading my rant.

This is my baby, Roosevelt.

Teton Science School Trip

So I got back from the Teton Science School today. It was amazing. I had so much fun and I really hope I can go back someday. So I'm going to give a quick synopsis of what happened over the week.

So on Monday we got to school and hopped on the bus at eight AM. We drove for five hours with only one stop the entire time. We then continued on our journey and got to TSS (Teton Science School). We dropped off our stuff outside the dorms, went to the dining hall for an introduction, and then went to the dorms for another small introduction. We put our gear into the rooms, put on our gear for outdoors, and split into our field groups that we were assigned. After that, we got cross-country skis and went out for a little practice. After that, we went to the actual track and we skied for a while. We got back, and sat around and did homework, then went to dinner. After that we went to an evening program (EP) and learned stuff. We then went back to our dorms, did homework, then went to sleep.

On Tuesday, we woke up bright and early and went to breakfast. We ate food then got ready to go out to the field. We were cross-country skiing again. We got on the bus, and drove to our location. When we got off the bus, we all got a nice face-full of bear spray!

What happened with that was our guide/teacher lady, Laura, stepped off the bus without realizing the safety had broken on her bear spray. The bear spray then proceeded to spray into the air and when we stepped off the bus, we inhaled it. It was terrible.

So after that adventure, we grabbed our gear and set off. We went for a while, played some games, ate lunch, dug a snow pit that was five feet deep, and set off again. We made it 2.5 miles before we turned back and got back on the bus to go back to the campus. We got back, showered, ate dinner, went to our EP, did homework, then slept. All in all, it was a successful day.

Wednesday wasn't as exciting with us snow shoeing. We went a little bit, dug two snow pits, and learned all about the snow. After that, we built a snowman. We then headed back for the bus on a different, but effective, route. We then went to dinner, EP, homework, and bed.

On Thursday, we went to a preserve and cut off some willow branches so that in the summer they can plant more willows in places that they're needed. After that, we went to another place and we went cross-country skiing some more. Our group went on a quote walk, where one leader put out quotes and the rest of us read the quotes while skiing by ourselves. Once we got to the end, we waited for everybody, then we started to head back while playing camouflage. it was awesome. We got to the end of the route back and went to the campus. We went to dinner, EP, packed, and slept.

Today, we woke up, went to breakfast, went to a closing thing, cleaned our lodges, and hopped on the bus. We took a five hour drive with one stop back to Park City and got here around the end of the school day. It was a really fun trip. I made some new friends in people I don't usually talk to. If you want to know more, check out the blog about the trip.

This is our Snowman :)