The end of intramurals

 Tonight marked the end of our intramural basketball season. We were in the play-offs and thought we had a shot at winning and moving onto the next round, but we were sadly mistaken. We had already beaten the team that we were playing, but they came ready to play and we didn't. I ended up scoring most of the points for our team and that was not enough. Our team has trouble playing defense and we let up a tremendous amount of points every game making it hard to win. This whole intramural basketball season has been very frustrating, considering I came from a school that went 22-3 my senior year and losing to the eventual state champions. I hope this season turns out to be a learning experience for seasons to come on who to choose to be on my team.

Colt Feltes

 We have played a couple games of intramural basketball and were are starting to see just how our team is shaping up. WE have a record of 2-1 after three games, but we have not played very well in any of those games. One of our players has been a huge letdown  He boasted all the time about how good he was before we started to play, and we soon found out the truth about Colt. Colt does not play any sort of defense and always expects someone else to guard his guy for him. He really likes to play offense and shoot the ball all the time!!! He doesn't even make a lot of the shots he takes.We try to play the game as a team, but it becomes very hard to do so when one players shoots all the time. Colt is also not a very good rebounder and fails to box out most of the time. With a 6' 4"in  250lbs frame you would think that this and playing in the post would be his specialty, but they are by far his weaknesses along with defense. Hopefully, the rest of the season goes better then these three games have gone.

Nuclear Warfare

Twenty five kills stand between me and absolute perfection. The thrills and disappointments, the calls and the no- doubters, making the game one of its own. The game is Call of Duty which is played on Xbox. I was using the Scar with a grenade launcher attachment and quickly stacked up seven kills. When you get seven kills in a row without dying you get harriers. My harriers were quickly shot down and they only got my two kills, which got me to nine. I decided to sit back and be very tactical with my life since I was only two kills away from a chopper gunner. I threw my C4 outside the building, therefore getting me the two more kills. I received my chopper at eleven kills without dying which means I was only fourteen kills away from the tactical nuke. After my chopper gunner was finished, I was only at eighteen kills. I got a couple of more kills outside of the chopper gunner when I was shortly shot by a sniper, and that put and end to my quest for glory.

intramural basketball

 Thursday was the first day that we had intramural basketball games. I was somewhat nervous knowing that I hadn't played a really competitive game of basketball in almost a year. My team consisted of some friends I had from high school along with some new friends I have recently made at college. I was a first team All-State player my senior year so I wasn't nervous about how I was going to play, but rather how our team was going to play like a true team and not just a bunch of individuals. During our first game we got matched up with a team that had some talented players, but other than the couple players they were not very good. They fouled all the time and since there were no refs there were no fouls called throughout the entire game. This benefited them tremendously. They ended up winning the game by about 20 points, but I know if fouls were called they would not have stood a chance. Our team had a lot more talent then theirs and knew how to play the game the right way.

Andrew Luck

 Andrew Luck is the starting quarterback at the University of Stanford and is anticipated to be the number one overall draft pick in the NFL. My favorite team in the NFL is the Miami Dolphins who did not have a win yet in this season, well that is until this week when they played the Kansas City Cheifs. I was hoping that the Miami Dolphins would not win a game the entire season so they would be awarded the first pick in the draft and with it select Andrew Luck. Luck is the type of player that could change the entire outlook of a franchise. This week when the Dolphins were scheduled to play the Cheifs I had no confidence that the Dolphins would actually pull the upset, but they did. Because they won today the Indianapolis are now the only winless team in the NFL and are the front runners to get the number one overall pick. If the Dolphins do not find a way to get the number one overall pick, this season will be an absolute failure.

pumpkin carving

In my family every year we have many family traditions that we come together to do, but my favorite tradition of all is pumpkin carving on Halloween. We start out our day by going to the pumpkin patch to pick out the perfect pumpkin deserving of our marvelous designs. We get to the pumpkin patch and we have to take a tractor ride out to the patch where the pumpkins are grown. The air on the ride our was dusty and smelled of hay and gasoline. When arriving at the patch we got out and started our journey through the weeds and pumpkin plants on route to finding just the right pumpkin.  Once we find the pumpkin and bring it home, that is when the real fun begins. The whole family has already picked out designs and starts attacking there pumpkins with knives and utensils from our pumpkin carving kit. You stick your hand inside the pumpkin to clean it only to feel the sliminess of the seeds and innards. After countless hours of carving, shaving, and just the pure frustration of what pumpkin carving has to offer, you get the greatest sense of accomplishment  and pride when you see the finished creation.

Peaceful Pond

Whenever I am having a rough day or even just need to find a place to relax and find inspiration, I go out to Koop’s Pond with Daniel Schmitz to do a little fishing. We get all the poles ready and drive down the gravel roads with the dust blowing up behind up on our way to the pond. We tear through the bumpy corn field on our way to our secret pond on their land. We get there and my eyes light up when I see the pond glistening and the boats rocking in the water ready to be taken out for a relaxing  day with just my friend, my thoughts, and the pond. We get out on the boat and get to our perfect destination for fishing where the trees are casting the perfect shadow and our feet are in the water. After the boat is anchored we cast out our first line of the day…splash the bobber hits the water and the day of relaxation and restoration has begun.