lyricalangel
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Post by lyricalangel on Dec 26, 2007 1:25:51 GMT -5
^I'm definitely with you on that, aln! ;D
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Post by liss31d on Dec 26, 2007 9:00:44 GMT -5
I despised volleyball at school... luckily I did not have the experience Mal had, the kids were usually nicer about my lack of volleyball-playing skills, but it can be a humiliating experience looking like an uncoordinated ninny in front of everyone, especially at Mal's age when you're at your most insecure.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Dec 26, 2007 20:21:33 GMT -5
I despised volleyball at school... luckily I did not have the experience Mal had, the kids were usually nicer about my lack of volleyball-playing skills, but it can be a humiliating experience looking like an uncoordinated ninny in front of everyone, especially at Mal's age when you're at your most insecure. I agree with the last part of this. I also despised volleyball at school and fortunately didn't have to go through what Mal did. No one else knew how to play well either (with the exception of the kids on the volleyball team) so we were all nice to each other and laughed at our stupid mistakes lol.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Dec 27, 2007 12:36:28 GMT -5
^ Classmates like that would have made my life SO much easier.
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 27, 2007 17:32:38 GMT -5
^ Definitely. The girls in my class weren't too bad but the problems came when we had to play with the boys. They were jerks and the girls would get stupid and sometimes meaner. I think that was Mal's big problem, too - the boys.
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lyricalangel
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Post by lyricalangel on Dec 27, 2007 21:03:46 GMT -5
Boys always seemed to know who to pick on. They would play harder ad more aggressive with those people.
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 28, 2007 1:18:07 GMT -5
^ That's exactly what I had too. One boy would get right in front of me in kickball and he was so big that the second I would kick the ball, he would be able to block it, grab it and cream me with it. He even almost hurt me a few times. Of course, he always knew just how to get the teacher to turn his back first. ;D
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sarish
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Post by sarish on Dec 29, 2007 11:25:01 GMT -5
We never played volleyball, thankfully, but we played something similar, called boundball, which is volleyball played with a tennis net instead. I was always horrible and everyone hated having me on their teams. Until they saw that I could actually serve! Of course that was 3 years of the same game in P.E. when I FINALLY learned how to properly serve so I did not have much time to show off my newly found skill and was teased for 3/4th of the total time we played boundball. [The P.E. program at my school was not very creative with their classes and we pretty much only played boundball, ran the mile, and occasionally flag football and baseball (which I did equally horrible at and everyone stood behind the fence thing so they would not get knocked out by me throwing the bat when I hit)]. All in all I was definitely a Mallory in gym class!
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 29, 2007 17:34:07 GMT -5
^ I've never heard of boundball. I'll have to ask my mom since she was a phys ed teacher. Sounds interesting. ;D Your gym program had more diversity than mine in elementary school where we played kick ball or dodge ball every day. Those were our teacher's favorites because they allowed the big, mean kids to hit the other kids really hard with those awful rubber balls to give him a good laugh. What a jerk!
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Post by GingerSnaps on Jan 16, 2008 21:35:15 GMT -5
I wish I read this book as a kid instead of looking back now. In my middle and high school, we did volleyball for about a month and a half before Christmas break each year. I was terrible at a lot of games in gym, since if a ball came at me I couldn't help ducking for cover. (That made me great at dodgeball the one time we played it in my senior year, though! Everyone was amazed : I loved the aerobics unit afterwards, but most kids didn't like that one.
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Post by murderedmymuse on May 14, 2008 12:55:07 GMT -5
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Post by anzuhana on Jul 23, 2010 19:16:02 GMT -5
I could relate to Mallory. I had to play volleyball and I hated it. Unfortunately, there was no way that I could've gotten out of it. Thankfully, in high school, I didn't have to take volleyball since like every student, I could take what ever gym class I wanted.
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Post by zoar3 on Jul 23, 2010 22:20:02 GMT -5
^I was never a volleyball fan, either. I've said this on other thread but one of the happiest days of my school life was the end of 10th grade because that= the end of PE forever. That is cool though Anzuhana that you had a choice of what to play.
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Post by candykane on Jul 24, 2010 9:51:52 GMT -5
I was terrible at volleyball, so I relate to this book. I didn't get picked on like Mallory did, though. A lot of other kids were just as bad as I was.
At least we only had to take one year of gym class when I was in high school. I was pretty bad at almost everything so I was very glad when that year was over!
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Post by anzuhana on Jul 24, 2010 10:05:38 GMT -5
When I was in high school, we had to take four years of gym. The only time you didn't have gym was when you were taking a required health course (you only had to take two health courses to finish the health requirement). It was fine with me, though, since I liked gym.
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