Personal Narrative: Drilling

Have you ever had a sick feeling in your stomach? Ever been so nervous that you almost want to throw up? Soon, the drill team was headed to Florida for Drill Nationals. We were all terrified of the fact we had finally reached to this point of such a big and meaningful competition. I never thought that it was all going to happen so fast. All of those after school practices took an eternity, but all it seemed like it ended in a split second. I couldn’t believe it. It felt like I was there physically, but mentally I was in another place. Almost as if I was in another dimension. It was all just really overwhelming, as I thought about our JROTC competing against all of those different branches of the military. It was just way too much to even
The best part of the day had arrived, dinner. We had a reservation at the pier in which we were going to eat dinner. We looked like a whole bunch of bees ready to attack. The food was there. Right in front of our noses. We could feel the presence of the warmth coming from the food. The smell was just making our mouths water and our tummies rumble. We looked at each other with such eagerness to have some of those explicit desserts in our mouths. There we were, with our food served and ready to attack. I knew that when I was done with this food there was no longer going to be any space for the dessert. Overall the food was amazing and the experience as well.
By now it was the third day at our trip to Drill Nationals in Florida. We were on a roll. We were hitting the practices with more intensity than ever before. We were all collaborating with each other and helping with whatever it was that we could help with. We spent that whole day practicing our routine over and over again. By the end of the day we were really exhausted and ready to head down to our hotel rooms to take a nice cool shower and just relax. As soon as we got there that was exactly what we did. By the time I noticed, I was already knocked
I was actually excited that the following day was going to be competition day. We practically spent all day swimming and just having a wonderful time down at the ocean. We all knew that we had to get the best out of this day because there was not going to be another day like this to enjoy. There we were around eight at night at a bonfire next to the ocean. Later we found ourselves in bed ready to get some good sleep for the upcoming day which was competition day.
There it was, competition day. We are downstairs in the lobby area eating some cereal and some waffles with some warm coffee to brighten and wake up our sleepy selves. All we needed was our pep talk and we sure got it. There were our instructors giving us motivation