Fall softball season started on Monday, and I am very excited! The first day of practice was kind of difficult, but it always is. It's weird how much you fall out of routine if you haven't done something in awhile. The last time I had played softball before Monday was the week before All State Camp. It was strange. Routine push-threw ground balls were catching me off balance and ill prepared. I forgot all of the little things such as don't turn and burn with your glove in the air, don't say "no cut" if you don't need a cut, 30 means 30... RED LIGHT. These small things that I have been yelled at for biffing up numerous times completely slipped my mind the first day. Thankfully, I was not the only one who let all of these minor yet important details slip my mind. The second practice was definitely better. The general team attitude was a lot lighter, and the coaches didn't have to yell as much. Although, my coaches yell A LOT... and cuss, they like to do that too. Anyway, we were doing an outfield fly ball drill, and I was running after a ball that was soaring high above left field. I didn't think I was going to be able to catch it in the air to get the out, but I kept running anyway. I looked up and noticed that it was starting to drop at a weird angle, so I jumped up in the air to get. I successfully caught it, and in the process fell to the ground. As I stood up the whole team was laughing at me. I asked, "What's so funny?" with a confused expression. As I returned to the line, my friend Shae finally stopped laughing and told me what happened, "It was just so funny because we can totally tell that you are on dance team because you did a perfect leap when you caught the ball. Your back leg was so straight and stiff, and your jump was graceful." This made me start laughing because just last week in Dance Team Practice we took 45 minutes of our time just working on leap technique. I could do a leap in my sleep. (Ha! That rhymes!) Today at practice, I got a home run off of a bunt, which should never EVER happen. (For those of you who don't know, a bunt is when you hit the ball straight to the ground in front of you. A bunt doesn't go more than a few feet in front of home plate.) Anyway, the coaches were pissed. "You just let Annastazia Stofer score a home run off of a bunt! Annastazia Stofer! No offense Annastazia... But seriously girls! She isn't fast at all and you let her score a home run off of a (bleep) bunt!" That ended poorly for the girls that were playing defense, but all the girls on offense were laughing.
Today I marched in the Otoe County Fair Parade. Holy crap. People need to learn how to march, count, and when to chair step. It was terrible. I feel really sorry for Mr. Parde, he is trying so hard, and people aren't working hard in return. That's all I'm going to say about that. After we were done marching, I had to run back to the start of the parade to get in the back of the "Dance Team Truck" and throw candy at small children. It was so much fun, and it is so cool to see how much the little girls look up to us. There was this adorable little girl with poms-poms who came up and hugged my leg! She was adorable, and she had cute curly, bleach blonde hair!
With the start of softball season also comes the start of school. Tomorrow is the first day, and I am actually excited to back into a normal routine. As for homework and studying... not so much.
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