Activity 34 Writing from a personal prespective

One memory of my childhood that holds importance to me was when I got the MVP at a basketball camp that I went to. It all started when I was about 12 years old and had gotten involved in a basketball camp at Penn State New Kensington. I remember I was so nervous cause I was around a whole group of kids that I have never met before. I was also nervous because we got placed in teams and I was placed with an all guys team; I remember feeling really intimidated. For the whole week they keep saying that one lucky player would get MVP and be allowed back at the camp the next year free of charge. Therefore, all week I tried my hardest on every from shooting to dribbling to playing on my all boys team. I remember thinking to myself there was no way that the coaches would ever pick me because their was so many amazing players that had much better skills than me. Finally, it was the last day of camp and my parents insisted on coming to reward day. I felt so embarrassed as I thought I would be the one person not to get an award infront of everyone. Then finally the coaches anounced that the MVP was Karissa; I remember just siting there for a minute or two cause I was so shocked. When I walked up and got the reard the coach anounced to the group that I was a real team player and a trooper for behaving well while being on an all boys team all week. He also explained to all of the players that it doesn't always matter if you can shoot and score the best what matters is playing as a good team member and having a team spirit. I remember being so happy that I recieved the biggest award that was given at camp.


I counted that "I" = 21 times. I feel that you can tell the the "I" seems to be shy and nervous. They seem to be focusing on getting through the camp in hopes to recieve an award. I feel that I did identify with the charcter in my childhood and how I felt back then. I also feel that you can tell that the piece is personal.