Soccer on the Beach
A few days ago, we all had a school trip to Manuel Antonio in Costa Rica. The second day we were there, we went to the beach but we weren’t allowed to get in the water which I think is ridiculous because there wasn’t any thunder and it was barely raining. After a while of taking pictures with my friends, I got bored of the same pictures and looked for something else to do. One one side of the beach, a bunch of boys were playing American Football but I wasn’t interested in playing that because they all become savages when they start playing. On the other side of the beach, there were some boys playing soccer. At first I was worried to go play with them because there were many dangerous rocks on the sides and I wasn’t sure if they would let me play. Then I noticed that Diana was playing soccer with them so I went to ask her how everything was. She told that I should play because it was very fun and the boys were not like the boys playing football. I asked Ariel if I could play because he was the first one I saw and he said it was okay. I started a little shy because I wasn’t used to my team but after a while, I got used to it. I looked for the ball the whole time and when I got it, I tried to dribble with it as long as I could. Every once in a while I would hit a small rock and get hurt but I got over it quickly. There was one moment when I was close to the goal and I shot at the goal. I think I made a goal but I’m not sure because we went back to playing. There was one inconvenience throughout the game though. Every once in a while, a big wave would reach the area where we were playing and the ball was hard to control. It would float and go back to the beach along with the water. Luckily, it never got past the shore so it never got lost. Besides that, there where no other inconveniences until something very hurtful happened. One of the players, Brandon, was running with the ball and he hit his foot with a big, pointy rock. He cut his foot pretty bad because he was bleeding very bad. He stopped playing and after that, other people stopped, too, and the game ended. A few minutes later, we had to go back to the hotel. I enjoyed the game a lot because I had not played soccer like that in a long time.
