Can I Be Your Advisor

I don’t think that the cheerleaders will want me to be at their practices with them anymore. I make them use their voices and try to get them to use some enthusiasm while cheering. I can not tell you how many times I asked “who is hearing you?” I can not tell you how many times I said “tomorrow is Christmas.”

I used those phrases as cues that they need to be louder and use more enthusiasm. I even tried to instill some of the stuff that I learned from all the customer service seminars that I had to recently attend. “Even if you don’t want to be here act like you want to be here anyway! Because nobody cares that you don’t want to be here.”

There is one little girl on the team that I thought that she was going to pass out. She looked so pale. She said that she felt fine so I asked some of the other girls if she looked sick. They told me “no she is always that pale.” Scary! I think that girl needs vitamins or something.

T is one of these kids that everyone just pushes off to the side and she is so quiet and so shy that she just doesn’t join the group. While all the other girls were brushing and/or combing their hair she just stood out of the way. I asked her if she wanted to comb her hair and she told me that she didn’t have a comb. Going against my better judgment I borrowed a pick from another girls and helped her fix her hair. I pulled some of it back so it wouldn’t be in her face.

The girls are ready to go but it is too early and the basketball coach had a movie on so the girls joined the basketball team in the classroom to watch Lilo and Stitch. (I must watch this movie from the beginning!) T was sitting all by herself while all the other cheerleaders were huddled around one table. I pulled up a chair and sat beside her. And guess who is going to get a talking to! I will give them my favorite speech.

“If you were her friend your friends will become her friends and everyone gains friends.”

Can you tell that I was an outcast? Not so much in Junior High and High School but all through Elementary School I did not have very many friends.

I still was not satisfied with the answer I got about T’s color so when Mrs. Cheerleading Coach showed up at the game I asked her about T’s color. “That is her color.”

Okay ~ it is almost 4:30 AM (How did it get so early so quickly?) I better get some sleep. My family will be getting up soon to start the day and I will not want to get up.

**Another topic for later

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