When I arrived in California I wanted to try out for football, but I was too late and heavy to make it on the team. I was pretty bummed out about not being able to be on the team. I was still aloud to practice with them, so that's what I did.
  Football practice was three times a week Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. My dad I suggested that I wear a plastic bag when I went to practice; this would make me sweat more than I normally would and loose wait faster. Since I had never been to a real school before now it was hard to go too football practice and keep up with my homework. The practice was hard in the beginning because I was never forced to work out on a regular basis. I almost quit because it was hard for me but my dad told me if I wanted to quit I had to tell the coach myself. I did not want to tell my coach so I stuck with it, and I'm glad I did.
  When practice started, I was happy that I was aloud to practice with the team, and sometimes I would get to play safety or tight end when some of the teammates didn't come to practice. When I was aloud to play one of these positions practice was all the more fun. I couldn't play all of the hitting parts of the game because I didn't have any pads, so I just had to touch the person with two hands. The other players were told not to hit me but some of them did, and when I tackled a person they all cheered for me.
  I went to all of their games, and that was a big adrenaline rush when the games were at a tie and we were about to go into over time, or if someone scored just at the end of the 4th quarter. We didn't win a lot of our games, but when we did win one we were happy that at least we won one more game; and that we  were good enough to make it to the playoffs.
  We played the Atascadero greyhounds in our first and final game in the playoffs. We had played them before; in fact they were the first team we played at the beginning of the year.
  It was a hot day and we had to play in mid afternoon, our junior team was playing before we did; they won their game and went on too the playoffs. We were up next and we were very hot, the game was off. I was watching from the sidelines, they scored the first touchdown and the second one, but we are always behind in the first half-time but pulled back up in the second half. We weren't that worried about that, but our couch was, so in the when it was half-time our coach told us to step it up and that we have to want it more than the other team and right now they want it more. So when we get back out there to want it more than they do. When we got back out the field we turned it up and started to pullback up, but then they scored enough to get us on to mercy role. The mercy role is when you are down by 15 points. We picked two people to stand out of the game, 14 and 25 we gained our points back and we knew that they were starting to get a little worried about the score.  They got their players back out there once we were off mercy role, and then that was it we lost the game 23 33. But you know what football practice was one of the best times of my life.