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Ice Skating - Online Essay

Ice Skating

Dragging my feet across the dull floor I slumped down on the kitchen chair. My mom asked, “Annie, what has been going on? You don’t seem yourself lately.” I guessed there was just nothing to motivate me in life. Something didn’t seem complete. Although I felt sad I answered, “Nope, I’m fine mom.”
The next morning I began to work on my art project. I scuffled up the stairs, still in my comfiest pajamas, and began to search for my hot glue gun in the attic. As I was scavenging through a couple boxes of my mom’s a letter fell out. Through the corner of my eye I could read the words “For Annie”. I wondered why my mom hadn’t given this to me earlier. I ripped open the envelope and dug my ...

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on me, nothing I’ve ever felt before. Some girls feel magical when a boy kisses them but nothing could be as magical as skating to me. From the age of 3, when my skates were nearly the length of a potato chip, people used to say that I was born with skates on. If I could I would make the world winter all year long and I would live by a pond so I could skate whenever I wanted. Sadly, my parents never allowed me to go to the Olympic level because they were scared I would get hurt just like my mother. This was my time to shine. I was ready to show my grandmother I could win the Hopper family a gold medal.
The first step of being an Olympian was training. I had a lot of training to do but I couldn’t tell my parents that I was skating after school, they would freak, so I decided to tell them I joined the art club and would be coming home late after school. After hard core workouts at the gym and rink I could barely walk. My legs felt like strands of spaghetti and my arms were ...

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Added: 4/11/2011 05:51:25 PM
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