High School Memories

I was looking through some old high school photos last night and I found some really good ones. Now, I don’t know what you remember of your high school years, but I loved my high school memories. There were some pictures that I found that just cracked me up. I am going to try to upload them on my photo website…but only give certain people access to the hidden photos…they are so funny! Speaking of the hidden photos, Carissa, the pictures of your trip are there, so let me know and I will give you access to them. Anyway, I digress. I am reminiscing now…

I remember during my junior year, I had a soccer game after school one day and it was raining. My teammates and I didn’t want to get our brand new uniforms wet…and it was a big hike up the hill from our locker rooms to the soccer field. Well, normally it wouldn’t be a big deal since we were going to be playing in the rain and mud anyway…which is the whole point of playing soccer…to get wet and slide around in the mud while you beat the crap out of the other team. (Now I really have to paint you a picture of how important it was for us to keep our uniforms perfect before this particular game. Usually if you were on a high school sports team, you had to wear the recycled jerseys that the team wore last year. Well during my junior year, we raised money so that we could buy our own uniforms and equipment bags and keep them at the end of the year. And for me, that was great since I would be able to use the bag for soccer and tennis for the following year…yahoo). Anyway, the uniforms were great, I can’t stress that enough. And to top it all off, the boys soccer team would be spending their practice time watching our game. (The boys team…yummy). And this game was the division championship game, the most important game of the season. Anyway, you get the picture.

Well, 5 of my teammates and I decided to drive from the locker rooms up to the playing field. Granted, we were the upperclassmen of the team and the only ones with cars…we left our other teammates to find their own means of transportation up the bastardly hill (mainly walking on their underclassmen legs…muhahaha). Anyway, for some reason Lisa didn’t want to drive her van up the hill (Lisa, if you remember why, let me know…I think it was because you didn’t want to get it all muddy…anyway) and Rosana’s car was the only one parked outside the locker rooms. Now Rosana’s car was a Toyota MR2 (for those of you who don’t know what an MR2 looks like…it is a 2-seater with a flat back trunk) that for some reason, was in a lot of my pictures…

So for some strange reason, we threw all of our equipment bags into the car so that those would stay fairly dry (go figure)…and the rest of us climbed on the trunk of the car! Now to this day, I can’t imagine what god-forsaken thing was going through my mind that I thought this was a good idea, and I would never agree to do it again…but anyway. So imagine this for a second, a small fairly beaten up Toyota MR2 filled with soccer balls, cones, nets, and equipments bags and backpacks, and 4 girls on the trunk of the car (in shorts and t-shirts without any safety precautions whatsoever) riding up the hill in the rain. Yeah…that’s the picture.

Well fortunately, we made it up the hill alive and in one piece. Our uniforms stayed perfect until we started playing the game, the game didn’t go so well since we lost (but it was a lot of fun playing in the mud), and the boys team hated us because we jumped all over them after the game when we were covered in mud and dirt (I know most of them were definitely not happy after that!).

Ah…good times.