"Oh baby, baby"

As I forgot to mention in my last post, Mia took (most of) those pictures on Easter, in my Easter dress. Others were at state FCCLA. We had a JV track meet on Wednesday. It was pretty enjoyable, hmm, except for the fact that it was snowing!, and it was at Juab, where the wind is ALWAYS blowing. I ran the 100 meter dash, and ran in the 4x1 relay. second to last. Oh, baby. We gave up and left before I could run in the 200. Mr. Bob was there, and he let me wear coat. We all thought we were going to die of hypothermia.
At practice on Thursday, I found out that Groesbeck signed me up for the 400 meter dash on Friday at an invitational meet at Juab! What! I had NEVER ran a 400 before. (That's once around the track) At practice I ran one to get the hang of it. Tiffany said it looked good, but I could barely carry my blocks back to out them away. Jannet offered to put them away for me. I love Jannet.
On Friday, a couple of guys brought camping chairs, so me, Kensie, Elias, Rendon, and Jens sat in them(rotating between a couple of other people as the events came and went). We were all huddled with blankets, and sitting on each other's feet, trying to stay warm. Daddy and Noah came to visit us. TONS of parents came. Rendon went to do the pole vault, and I taught people to say "ganbare!" In the pole vault they keep raising the bar higher and higher, and if you hit the bar, you get a mark. three marks and you're out. Well, Rendon had hit the bar twice, and he was running to jump again. We were all yelling "ganbare!, Ganbare!".....he hit the bar. Silence. Then Elias said "Ganbare." haha
After a couple of hours, they made the first call for the 400. As I was walking over there, I was so nervous, I thought I was going to pee my pants. They called out who was going to be in the first heat. someonesomeone from somewheresomewhere and Natasha from Millard. What? The first heat? Only one other person? What was the world coming to? So this other girl was a no-show, hmm am I racing myself then? They put me in the second heat, in the second lane. 7 other girls. foo. I was maybe going 85~90% on the first 100, and I was getting ahead. The second 100, I was taking big strides. By the end of the second 100 was where Millard was camped. I was in the lead with a big gap in back of me. Everyone was cheering for me. I started sprinting fast. Still ahead. Then I heard someone behind me, with people shouting "Go, Mary. Pass her. You can take her Mary." Thanks. That makes me feel good. She passed me up. I tried to go faster, but I couldn't swallow, I couldn't breath, all I could do was think about putting some more clothes on, and keep running. I finished in second. Considering it was my first try, I'm feelin' pretty good. Oh baby! I walked back to our camp site, and tried to drink some gatorade we brought, but I couldn't swallow it. Rendon stopped me and said; "Hey Tashi, I was watching you. YOu did a good job." People were watching me? My butt hurt to bad, I was going sit down when Jumbo said; "We were watching you, and I was like, she just hit her wall." So that's why I couldn't run faster. It all makes sense now. So I sat down. It didn't help. It hurt even more. Mr.Bob walkes over looks at me without saying anything, and shakes my hand. It was kinds funny espesially since he had out his hand on my neck only a little while before.
We sat around for a couple more hours we filmed people saying "Usopyon", and "Ganbare", and "nandeyanen" and "jane". They're on Lexi's camera, so she should post them. We re all freezing our butts off, so we would yell "Keel, let's go home!" "Nathan! Home! Bus!" but they wouldn't let us leave. Me, Kensie, Jens, Elias had to run the 200, which was last. Groesbeck made us run. I n my heat there were three people. Me, Kensie, and some other girl. I know Kensie's faster than me. This will be nice. On the curve, I was behind them, but I was catching up. Gradually, I was getting closer to Kensie. We were tied. Then we hit the finish line. She was soooo mad. No comment. Squishee! Ume?! In our garden a couple of days ago, I took these pictures of our apricot tree.