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This magazine is all about me! Who am I?Well you are going to need to read
. the rest ofthe magazine to find out. In this magazine you will find out a little bit
about who exactly Iam. Iwill be talking about my home away from home, and one
of the only sports I've been able ~ostick with for more than three years.
Iwrote about these topics because they are both very impof1:ant to me and
have been a great influence on me. Myfirst article is about my second home; .
Scotland. I've been going ~here.my whole life, but each time Igo i:;always a new.. .
experience. The other topic Ichose to write about was volleyball. I started it in fifth
grade for an after school program,.and Iam now play volleyball outside of school in
a club. It was a fun experience putting together the magazine. I hope you epjoy;\.
reading a little more about me in my Me Magazine!
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Scotland ~'My Home Away From Home
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I've been going to Scotland
since Iwas very young~ The very first
time Iever traveled out of the country
to Scotland wa~ when Iwas one year
old. Iwas going to Scotland to visit
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my dad's famHy, and I have been
traveling ever since. '
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Going to Scotland ha~ become
an annual visit that I look forward to"'
every year. I've been going there for
so long that it has become my second
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',home; My dad was born and raised in
Scotland and he came over to the
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United States. Because only my dad
emigrated from Scotland, we go to
Scotland to visit my Dad's side of the
famHy. For this reason, Iam not only
an American citizen, but a British
citizen as weU.
When visiting Scotland my
dad, mum, sister, and i always stay
with our grandmother. My
grandmother lives in a little one-story
house, with a white exterior, with"
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blue window frames and door, and a
bJack slanted roof, with ,a large garden '"
with a big hedge bordering it. The
house is located in a little virrage just. .
outside of Sterring. Visitingmy famHy \
is a-big part of why we go to Scothmd
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every year. I love visiting my
grandma, aunties and undes, and aU
my cousins! They aUlive in different
places in Scotland, but my
grandmother's little house is where
, we usuaUyaUcome together to catch
up with each other.
"There are always
funny new stories"
Onething Ialways like about
Scotland is that there is always
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something new. Whether it is walking
down Princes St. in Edinburgh and
seeing aUthe new fashions, or
meeting new people in Perth. There
are always funny new stories or at
least a new variation of a story that
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going to our friends house to watch a
I hilarious TVshow about a bookstore.
Comingto Scotland, is likea fresh of .
breath air!
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Scotland ishas changed my. . .
point of v~ewof things. It has made
me more of an accepting and flexible.
person, than Iwould be if otherwise.
~ It is my home away from home! ...
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!!!i..."'"'"' Volleyball
It's Not Just a Sport It's a Passion
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1am walking into the gym, on
a Thursday right after school, waiting
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program to begin. 1was with a few
other fifth graders in my class, but~
-everyone else was in the middle
school. They have aUplayed before,
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and 1was comp!etely new to the
sport. Finally after what seemed like a
century, the middle-school volleyball
coach, came into the gym. Little did 1..
~know that at that moment, a door
opened that led me to where 1am.."'"'"..
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"I didn't really want
to play volleyball"
, 1started playing when 1was in
,fifth grade, as a part ,ofan after school
program. 1didn't really want to play
.. volleyball, but since 1wasn't a part of
any other after school program, myIi:
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mum decided 1had to pick one. After
that volleyball program, in sixth,
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grade, 'Idecided to jign up for the scIJool
volleyball team.
"When you gave a g'ood
pass, everyone could see it!"Playingfor the sch901team was
fantastic. We would get out of school at3:20
with everyone else, and head up to the gym.
Once'our coach came, we would get i'na , ,
huge circle and stretch. O~e ofthe eighth
graders on the team wou"ldcount out all the
odd numbers up to teli, and everyone else
would fill in with the even numbers. As a
sixth grader that was new to the team, 1
thought this was one of the coolest things in
the world. After all the stretching and
counting, wewouJcI get in a long line and one
by one, our coach would toss the ball to us
and we would pass it back. I loved this drill
because when you gave a good pass,
everyone could see it! We practked drills to
improve our passing, setting, and serving,
from 3:30 to 5:00. Bu~during that time, ,our
coach also always made time for us to play
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and intense game of queen of the'
court or a scrimmage.
'~,'Mi~dle school volleyball, was a,,, '
fantastic start, I learned all the basics
'andru;lesofplaying volleyball. But it, , '-
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was enough to satisfy my need to
play. In eighth grade, Iwent to a try-
out for The Outsiders Volleyball Club.
It was a long ,and anxious wait for me,
till Ifound out whether I made the
team or not. When Ifound out that I
made the team" Iwas practically,~
bo~ncing ofthe walls. The Outsiders
vbc taught me so muchmore, than I
, couldhave ever imagined at the time.
I learned how'to control a pass, that
would have been impossible for me to
have had passed before, to an over
hand serve that I have been previously
working so hard to do. The practices
., where very late at night and tiring, by
the time you got in the car and was
half way home, you would already be
sound asleep. But we learned so
much, and my teammates and
coaches were so great, that leavi~g a~
6:30 to drive to the gym, only to leave
two long hours later, never seemed so
bad.
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"I got to spend my time
with my friends, playing
volleyball!"There were only seven other girls 0'1
the team. Because there were so few of U$iat
practices we all got the help and attention
we needed. At games we all got ~ nice
amount of time to play, and we all got to
'knoweachother very well. We spent many
good times together and became very good
friend with each other~ The friendship I made,
with the girls on my volleyball team Vl(o~ld
have never existed ifwe all didn't share the
love we have for the sport. Waking up,at 5:30
a.m. to drive to a volleyball tournament that
lasted from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. was the
best part of the whole season" because Igot
to spend my time with my friends, playing
volleyball!
Playing in a volleyball game is nothing, .
like playing at practiee. The gyms are huge,
and loud, with tons of other teams,who all
have the same hope of wining. The fi(st
game is usually the hardest; be,cause you are
still tired from waking up'at a ridiculously-
early time to sit in a car for two hours to get
there. You have thirty minutes to warm-up'
and practice before the game~ Then you line
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up with the referee and walk tothe
middle of the court and wave to all,
the adoring fans a.k.a the volleyball
'"I moms and dads, and the occasional
sibling who got dragged along. The
, first few seconds of the game are the
most important,,!>ased off the first
serve, it decides whether you team is
going to start of behind and
eventually lose the game, have a
strong start and slowlyhave,your
downfall, lose the first few points and
come back inthe end to win the
game, or remain Strongthe whole,
game, waiting for you to collect your
prize.
Watching volleyball and
playing it are two very different
things. You can watch the ball come
to the passer, who passes it to the
setter, who sets it up for the hitter, to
hit it down onto the ground on the
other teams cqurt. Or you can stop
the speeding ball from hitting the
gro.,md, by digging it up high to the
setter, forthem to give a quickset to
the hitter, so they can slam the ball
down into the, other teams court. It
,the hitter who gets, the points, and
the setter who prepares the ball for the
point, but it is the back row passers job, to
keep the other team from getting any points
off of your team. I played back row for 'The
Outsiders team, and that position 'iswhere I
feel most comfor,table. It doesn't always, ,
seem like it from watching a volleyball game,.
but just as mllch relies on the back roW, as it'
does on the,setterand the,hitter. From
playing back row, I learned a great deal more
about responsibility"and how anything you
do affects the team, for better or for worse.
"Volleyball has been by
,far my favorite."
Istarted to p,layvolleyball to keep'me, '.
occupied after school., And I have tried, ,
, almost every sport and activity possible, but
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volleyball has been by far my favorite. Iha,ve
made many friends through it, and have had
, tons of fun. Sometimes, when I am playing
volleyball, I don'teven realize that I am
getting exercise and learning important
lessons! It isalmost impossiblefor me to be '
sad while playing volleyball, which is yet
~nother reason why I love it so much. '
I have been playing,sincefifth grade,
and Ihope to continue playing for a very long
time.
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