football

so this weekend was our wartburgs homecoming. i was on the field being ball boy like every game and i got to see the emotion of the team when before during and after the game. it brought back memories from back when i was in high school and our homecoming except here was different. at our school we didnt win a gam for 3 years so we didnt really expect to win so about half our team really got fired up for it and the other half didnt while here the entire team was. everyone was jumpin up and down yellin hittin each other it was just unreall how involved and into the game they were. watching it and thinkin about my high school football season i was thinkin should i give football another shot? would it be as much or more fun in college? and after thinkin ya know and talkin it over with my friends sam and jase we came to the sam conclussion it would be tougher then nails to be a 2 sport athlete in college and we would miss wrestling and our first love is wrestling. talking this over i know i will always miss football but at least i can be on the field being ball boy and be right there with the team but wrestling is what i love and its what i wanna do.

social change wheel

so in this blog were supposed to blog about this social change wheel we got in class this week. this wheel has 8 different parts on it that all deal with something different. there were 2 areas on this wheel that applied to me when i was in high school and they were direct service and community building. i represented direct service cause when i was in high school my coach was really about helping and being apart of the community so a couple a times a year we valied cars at different places for school events, public events and high class events, we also helped with actions and helped serve food at those actions. Another thing we did was during fourth of july and ragbri we set up a booth and sold pizza for Bills pizza and smokehouse. I also showed community building cause during the floods all of us wrestlers helped sandbag all day at random places for whoever needed it. the main place we always sandbagged though was dairy queen cause janelle rathbun the owner was my neighbor and a huge supporter of wrestling and she always gave us free blizzards for it and she loved us for helping her. with these to skills that i showed during high school i always wonder in the future when coach doyle leaves will they do the same thing? will they help out with the flood? and i always thing yes cause i belive we as wrestlers have left a lecacy kinda by just being there and helping people out in those bad times and here at wartburg i already feel that vibe just around town there always lookin at the wrestlers if were helpin move stuff or just runnin around town we have team on our shoulders so we always got to act our best.

high school

This last friday i went to my high school last home football game and to watch my brother, my friend and workout buddy blaize and my best friend kelby. my brother plays jv so he got done right away and came up and talked to kelby and i, kelby who goes to isu and is goin to be an engineer is a year older then me but we've been best friends since my freshman year. we watched the game and saw our seniors last home game, it brought back lots of memories of my class and how we thought wed never get old and graduate. while at the game we talked to a lot of the seniors and hear o how much they missed us and the questions they had, like what do you think of this college? do you still keep in touch? how do you like it? and it makes you think like in my situation i love it here at wartburg and the friends i've made already have been awesome, but also i dont really keep in touch with anyone from back home except for my brother, kelby, and blaize but no one from my class. Another reason why i dont keep in contact with many from my class is because im only 1 out of 3 kids that cam to wartburg out of my class of 126 and i came here to meet new people and not be stuck hanging out with the same kids from high school. My friend blaize asks me about college as well but hes going for wrestling too, blaize and i were both getting d1 offers last year and we took a lot of visits together like to isu, wartburg, coe, but he never came with me to niu or uni and he just went on those visits this last month and he liked them. Blaize talks to me about college a lot and he his making his decision here soon and whatever he decides he'll make an impact wherever he goes. when i think about i never had someone i could talk to about college like blaize does and i honestly can say if you have someone helping you, it makes it a lot easier to decide.

fishing

this past sunday our wrestling team went to a community members pond that supports the wrestling team and is a booster. while at the fishing pond we had a compotition for biggest fish, longest fish, heavest fish and most fish, and the people that didnt catch fish would get their nams drawin out of a hatto win prizes. When we all saw the prizes they let us fish so we began we all just sat around and had a fun time just fishin and shootin the shit like me and my friends used to do sunday mornings after tournaments at R&R cafe in indee with the old people. It really made me miss of home but i feel like everyone on the wrestling team is my new family now cause we do everything together some of us have class together, we all wrestle together, and we all hang out together, but most important we all are friends and we all have each others backs. so after our 2 hours of fishing we did the prizes and unfortunatly i didnt catch any fish but i did get my name drawn and got a flashlight which will come in handy sometime. After fishing some other members of the community cooked us some food and we all ate and coach miller and two other community members gave us speeches and it really made me question myself with what they said, "they said the wrestling team is like a community in its own, and we bring people together and watch us compete. after hearing that i never thought id be somewhere like that cause in indee wrestlers were liked by on part of the community and not liked by another and i always used to ask "what have we done to make you not like us?, we work day in and day out to get better and you get made at us and blame us for things?" cause this last year our principal blamed us wrestlers for breaking into the caffiteria and eating food during christmas break, and christmas break is when we need to watch our weight the hardest so our head coach who iwas really close always talked to me and we always came to the same questions. "What can we do to get people to like us and get rid of that bad rep the wrestlers have?" the answer we came up with was never cause someones always gunna say o sos and so did this and hes on the wrestling team and what not so we decide we just gotta do our best and make good, smart decisions." So after we got done with our meal coach millergave use one question to answer for ourselves and you gotta ask it everyday and that question was "did i work hard enough today, to beat that one kid, to qualify for nationals, or hell win nationals?" and so far for these first 3 days of official practice i feel like ive given it my all and to win that national title in the future.

School

During my high school career iv never had to have time managment, it was always go to class, go to practice, go hang out with friends, and then come home and do homework. I never had that much homework in high school either so i never really worried about it. coming to college the first thing i learned was homework make sure you do it and get it done, cause your homework is a lot of your grade and helps you a lot on tests. so while at college i was told to get a planner and i did my first day here, it has come in handy so much for school work and practice schedualing. With a planner i can plan out my days and make sure i get optimule time for sleep and homework and study time. but also at college i always ask myself the question will i have enough time to get this all done and get a good nights sleep? and when i do get stuff done i always ask did it save, or did it send? cause you never know the server might be down or something could be broke so ive learned to always have a back up plan for saving stuff and turning stuff in for school. so at college id always make sure to use your planner cause it manages your life.

homecoming

this week is my schools homecoming and it feels so serieal that im missing it. like i spent 4 years of my life at that school and everyone always has a fun time at homecoming , and i miss it. my senior year i didnt get a change to particapate in any homecoming activities cause of my knee surgery but i was there cheerin on my class and the football team all the way. at my school we have different days of the week where you dress up differently like theres farmers day, decade day, toga day, then school spirit day and pajama day. my brother who is a freshman in high school this year tells me that the teachers and kids miss me and the shananagins i do during homecoming. I never thought that i would every miss high school homecoming and i do like when your younger you see all the older kids havin such a fun time and you cant wait till you get to do the stuff they do and when you get there you thing it will never end. my funnest times in high school was junior year cause i could do every thing, but senior  year i hated it so much cause i couldnt particapate or anything and during football i just felt like i let everyone down cause i couldnt play. homecoming is the greatest part of high school i think and i miss it but i want my brother to have more fun then me and ill be coming back to my home town tonight to watch our team win and celebrate homecoming