[Marygrace]

This season i did a lot more than i thought i would. Being a freshman i thought all that i would do was screw in a few screws and let everyone else of all of the work. Then my mom and step-dad started talking about me taking a welding class, of course i thought that they weren't serious. At the time i was in eighth grade, i was petrified of going to college for a class, i was so scared. I was forced to go anyway, all of the guys thought that i was older because i was going to a college class...my step-dad took the class with me and told them my real age, yup, they stopped flirting with me. Bummer, but in the end i learned a lot about myself and we got a mentor, who i consider a good friend of mine. I also welded the whole robot. I had to the frame over three times because they changed the design. I was so stressed out that i broke down into tears. Ugghh! It was great once it was over though. We went to Phoenix Regional, didn't do to well because of our drive system. We then went to LA, fixed our drive system and we came out as finalists. We were so close! All of the girls on our team started to cry, because we wanted to win so bad, we had worked hard all year for this, and because of the excitement. We are a very emotional team. The weekend after i really started to not care that we didn't win, because i got something more from it then a trophy could have ever done for me, i got myself. It helped relize who i was and where i wanted to go. My only fear now is drowning. LOL, that would suck.