Summer Sports

Have you ever heard the prices it is to play for a travel team? Why are you actually paying that amount of money? Is it worth it to pay that much? Is playing that much, really worth the amount you are paying?

During the summer I don't think that my family is ever home. My brother for the last 4 years has been on a traveling baseball team. While he was on a baseball team,I played on a club softball team.

Last year for my brothers team,he had a tournament almost every weekend. He had only a couple in Wisconsin, and the rest where out of state. He went to Ohio,Michigan,Iowa,and Georgia. Where as my softball team only stayed in the state, but we also had a tournament every weekend.

In order for me and my brother to do these teams our parents had to put out a lot of money. This summer for my brother to play it will cost around 600 dollars. We were told that if our parents were going to pay all this money we better enjoy it,and work our hardest. I think that in order to play a sport in the summer you have to be really dedicated. You have to be able to know that your whole summer is basically going to be that sport and that you aren't really going to have any free time. For the 2 summers that i played i really enjoyed it, it might be just because i love the sport, and never really got sick of playing.

Spring Break

A lot of people think that to have fun on spring break you have to go somewhere warm. I dont think that it is always true. I was supposed to go Alabama with my family but my brothers spring break is a week later than mine so i ended up going to a friends house.

I went to my friends house who lives in Grantsburg Wisconsin. It is a small town, where everyone nows everyone pretty much. While we slept most of the time it was still fun. We met a lot of her friends from high school and most of her family lives there so we met a lot of those people to.

Even though it wasn't my first choice on where to go I still had a lot of fun. We ended up going to mall of america one day. We went bowling. We also just spent time at her house just relaxing and getting away from school.

I think one of the main reasons that we have spring breaks is to get away from school. It is a time for us to relax and and take a break. I think that spring break is a good idea, I just wish that more schools would match up their breaks so you could see some of your friends that you haven't seen in awhile.

Every other year since i was nine and my brother was seven we have gone to Walt Disney World. We would spend a week there, on the grounds and would go to every park more than once. We are at Disney were are always doing something, we never have time just to relax we are always on the go. By the end of the week everyone would be tired and would be ready to go home.

While we were in Disney my uncle would find tours of different parks for us to go on. We went on a tour of Magic Kingdom, saving everyone there from Captin Hook. We went on a train tour and got to go behind the scences and see where all the trains are kept for Magic Kingdom, and how many different ones there are. We went on a tour at Animal Kingdom, and got to see what all the trainers do there with the animals, and why certain rides where made for that park.

When we go to Disney it is a family vacation, almost my whole dad's side of the family goes. Everyone is starting to get sick of going to Florida every year except for my one uncle who can't get enough of it. We have tried getting him to go to Disneyland but he won't, so no one in the family really wants to go anymore.

I think that if we went somewhere else for a family vacation everyone would be happy. Everyone wants to do something new not what we have done for the last however many times we have had a family vacation. I think that we all just need a break from Disney,we just want to go somewhere we can relax, and not always doing something.

The choosing of Referees

Have you ever been to a basketball game,or some sort of sporting event that the referees where just bad? Did you know that all they have to do is take one test,and then they can get their lisence. I don't think that this is a good way to get find referees.

The last couple of basketball games i have been to, the refs have been really bad. They were calling fouls that didn't even occur. They would anticipate what the girls were going to do even before the play came. The game i went to last night the fouls were 14-5 in the first half,and some of the fouls that they called did not exist.

Another thing that bothers me is when refs make things up for the things they missed on the other end. It seems that they sometimes think that doing that will make things better than what they did to the game before hand. Some times the refs just need to let the kids play, they are there to make sure that things don't get to out of control,but they can't stop because of every little thing that happens to someone.

I dont think that reading a book and taking a test should be able to make you a referee. I think that you should have some experience in the game,either by playing it or coaching it. I think that gives you more of a feel for what is going on in the game, not just reading a book and knowing the rules. If you have played the game, you might have a better understanding of what the players are thinking when they are doing that. I think that officiating would be better in a lot of the sports if they did something like that.