Kaitlyn recently began her soccer career. We were very proud to take her to her first
game. We were also slightly
apprehensive. You see Kaitlyn is not the
most persevering of our children, nor is she the most brave. In fact you only have to look at her the
wrong way and she is likely to burst into tears followed by a screaming fit for
which, when asked, she will have no idea what the reason was.
She got all dressed up that Saturday morning and was extra
happy to be on the purple shirt team (a fact that all but the one other girl on
her team had probably been less than pleased about).
When we got to the field she had a 30 minute practice
session with her team. They did
exercises like kicking the ball, running after the ball, chasing the ball into
the neighbouring soccer field, jumping over the ball, tripping over the ball,
trying to keep the ball away from the coach and sitting on the ball.
Finally the game was all set to begin. At their age they don’t have a goalie and
they only have 4 players at a time on each team. Kaitlyn wasn’t picked to go on the field
right away so she sat with the rest of her team on the sideline. We watched as the two teams battled it out in
the middle, each player trying desperately to get the ball off every other
player regardless of their team colour.