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Hello my name is Courtney. I do a few sports gymnastics, tumbling, volleyball, and tennis!!! I am on Level 6 of gymnastics right now and plan to work upward.GYMNASTICS IS LIFE!!!! I am friends with Dessa, Madison, Skylar, Maddie, Kaylie, Karson, and many other trustworthy friends!!!!! I have 5 pets: a dog, a bird, and 3 mice!! I am not very girlie girlish!!! I do not enjoy having to "dress up"!!! I have brown shoulder length hair, and fair skin!!! My favorite color is LIME GREEN and any bright neon color!! I look forward to calibrating with you!


 * My story 1st draft**

Beep, beep beep I was dreading this day most of all......... My first gymnastics meet of the season!!!!! Trying to ignore my screeching alarm clock I was thinking " See normal kids get to sleep in as long as they want on Saturdays, but no I am a gymnast and I have to get up at 5:30 a.m." I heard footsteps walking toward my door, I knew my Mom was fiercely coming toward my room because she heard no movement or the floor screeching or even yet me wondering where my competitive leotard was. "Breakfast Holly Jane... I made pancakes just for your big day" I heard my Mom yell standing outside my door. "Ough" I sounded but not because it was my big day but see my Mom isn't a very good cook so she probably burnt the pancakes like normal. See my Dad usually cooked but then when my Mom and Dad got a divorce so Mom decided to take over cooking, when Mom had announced that she'd be cooking my whole family stared at the stove with disgust. When I say my family I mean Andrew, 8, Molly Hay, 10, Madi, 6, Jake, 9 and me Holly Jane, age 12. Being the oldest meant more responsibilities ,but when you practice more than 17 hours of gymnastics a week when you are just training Level 8, responsibilities come last so Molly Hay takes over the cooking, the cleaning, taking care of Madi, and to keep Andrew and Jake away from the vase that Mom adores for some odd reason when Mom is never home. Tiredly I got out of bed, walked down the stairs, turned right and collapsed on the couch. " Don't make me pour ice water down your night gown" I heard Mom yell from the kitchen where she was slaving over the stove with batter over her face and spatula in her hand. I suddenly got a perky personality and cartwheeled through the kitchen to the silver steel table. After breakfast I ran up the stairs to the bathroom and splashed water in my mouth trying to get rid of the burnt pancake taste (although it didn't at all taste like a pancake). I heard my Mom coming up the squeaking stairs so I quickly pulled the faucet to turn on my shower, as I was in the action my Mom pushed the door open and handed me my competition leotard and screamed "HURRY!!!" over the running water. When I had got out my Mom handed me a blow dryer and brushed my hair as I was standing pitifully plugging the plug into the white, cream outlet. I could hear Andrew and Jake screaming and Mom just rolled her eyes and yelled out the door "You better not be near my vase!!!" "Yes", I thought, "My house is crazy on these days well on every day." Once my hair was dry my Mom started pulling and yanking my hair until it fell out, but she was just trying to make it pretty for " MY BIG DAY." Once that was over with ,which was a relief, I brushed my teeth, pulled my flip flops out of my closet and began to walk down the squeaky stairs when Andrew, Molly Hay, Madi ( who was in Molly Hay's arms), Jake and Momma all popped out and screamed " GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!" and handed me some red and yellow roses that so happen to match my room. Once I had finally pushed through everyone Madi yanked her arms on me then wrapped her legs around my waist. When that had happened everyone owed and awed but over that noise we all heard Mom yell " We don't want to be late do we now???" So we all scrambled down the damp steps and piled into the car. I got shot gun, Molly Hay and Madi got the middle seats and Jake and Andrew got the backseats of our 7 seats mini van. I took two and a half hours to get to Spivey*s Gymnastics International. So my car ride got kind of hectic when you have two boys that fight all the time, even though it feels like 100 boys fighting! We had finally made it to the blue, silver, gold, bright, loud gym at around 8:40 a.m. We rushed all 6 of us into the cramped gymnasium and found 5 seats, since I was not going to be in the crowd they didn't bother to save me a seat. Then, the announcer yelled " Okay all the Level 8 session 2 gymnast please report to the floor at this time, once we have a head count we will sing our national anthem __Star Spangled Banner__!!!" So I made my way towards my coaches and my teammates, but I didn't see Cristyn standing on the blue, springy floor. Cristyn was my best friend, she is on the same level as me, and had the exact same middle name as me, Hope. So I approached my coach to asked her where is Cristyn but she didn't hear me so I asked my other coach, Jake, he responded " Oh she is getting her grips out of her car." My stomach eased down knowing where she was. "Ok everyone please stand for the National Anthem" The announcer asked. So everyone stood and placed there right hand over their heart and everyone began to sing along to the tape that was playing. Before every sporting event the audience all sang the anthem, this just so happen to be a U.S. tradition. After that we began to proceed as we were before, so all the gymnast stood around their coaches complaining about how nervous they were or how cold they were. We all began to stretch, I was next to Madison and Skylar and in front of me was Dessa, we all were so nervous. We had no idea how we would do being our first level 8 competition. One hour later after two events all our team had competetting we discussed the standing results: 1st- Skylar R. 2nd- Courtney O. 3rd- Dessa S. 4th- Madison R.. Then me and Dessa heard a faint noise and walked towards it, the lights suddenly flickered on and off then the whole gymnasium went BLACK. Everyone panicked with fright, but above everyone I could hear Cristyn screamming " APRIL FOLLS DAY!!" So everyone headed home forgetting about everything. Well, I guess the first meet is posponed to next week I thought. "Beep, Beep, Beep!" NOT AGAIN........

