Just Another Sunday

Well, another day of football and studying. The Chargers lose in almost the exact same way they did last week. As soon as the 1minute mark hits, me and my teammate spin usually start aiming eachother, either super excited or extremely disapppointed. lol. But the raiders got a win. Ironically I am a raider fan and my dad hates it. oh well. 5pm study hall I swear is the worst. My team has study hall every sunday from 5 to 7, which has its good and bads. Of course we NEVER want to go because its right smack in the middle of the day, and we would all rather be in bed watching tv and eating. Which is probably why its mandatory. It does help to have a place to go to get your work done that is due the next week. Helps alot more when you HAVE to be here, because it forces you to do your work. We all get here and talk about how we DONT wanna be here. One of these days, me and my team will stop complaining about everything my coach MAKES us do, because I think subconsciously, we all know it helps us for the better. It all makes sense, just the whole getting out of bed and driving to the school makes us not want to go. Its all good though. Now I am ahead of the game for my studies next week. Natural Disasters quiz on tuesday, I am pretty confident about it. Shouldn't be that hard, since I've been paying attention and I am interested in the subject. Especially with all of the hurricanes, fires, and earthquakes we've been dealing with over the past decade. A paper due thursday, and a grip of reading due for wednesday. So far I'm on pace for a great semester.

School alone is hard to juggle, when you add basketball to the equation, you realize that you cannot have anything else to focus on. Your everything must go into being a great STUDENT-ATHLETE. Sometimes it seems like the word athlete should come first. We are allowed to miss class to compete. And I swear more time goes into working out and practice then the classroom. That's where our dedication comes in. Because we cannot play unless we keep our grades decent, and more importantly, we won't graduate, now we can understand why student comes 1st. I have to make my mind up to apply myself to the classroom just as hard as I apply myself on the court. It gets tiring, some would call it exhausting, but at the end of the day, its a blessing. I don't know what else I would be doing anyway, probably just sitting around lol. This all may contribute to why so many people look up to us as athletes. We have to do it right to get respect. But if we don't do it right, we fail.

And this is why we go to study hall ;)