Journal 1- First week of school, I'm in search of a capstone. I wanted to do something for tiger talk but what I hadn't realized was that it was recording all sports and I couldn’t do that since I would be involved in three sports this year. Mrs. Zamorski had given me the opportunity to take on a different capstone, SMSA Athletics. I would be the person behind the Instagram making the post for all athletics, I would still be involved in the athletics and I loved that. So I took on this capstone. For my future career I want to go into the athletic training field, again still sports involved. I don't want to ever let go of sports. It's always been a part of me since I can remember. I wanna stay near sports as long as I can. So in doing this capstone even though I'm not a player for the boys, I still will be involved and that makes me excited. Summer started out rough, I broke my hand and needed surgery for it. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to play soccer in my senior year. So before school started I would practice my writing, drawing, texting etc. to get my thumb back into motion. (I had a Bennett's fracture, a fracture on the proximal end of the metacarpal) So on the first day of school I didn't come in because I was at my doctors appointment to see if I was cleared for sports and gym. The doctor asked me to take off my exoskeleton brace and asked if I could do some motions and to his surprise I could. He didn't expect that at all. I was cleared for soccer and gym. I couldn't wait to be able to be the goalie on a soccer field again! I was ready to get to know my teammates and be the captain to them and help them get better through the season. Then I found out we were merging with east Windsor, we didn't have enough girls for our own team. I was happy we’d at least get to play. But I wasn't happy that it was combined with people I don't know or have ever played with before. It was a fun experience, I got to make new friends and got to help make underclassmen better. Senior night was fun too. I was sad to know that it was most likely my last soccer game ever in my entire life. Once you realize that, everything just hits. In one wave. Journal 2- in my lit and comp class which is Mrs. Zamorski's class, I asked her for the sign in info for the twitter account because I had redownloaded it and she gave me the info, i then told her that i was waiting on the schedules for the sports teams so i can post them. Soccer was going well, practices were fun. I came into this school year determined to keep good grades and stay on top of my work. I decided to figure out my capstone before school started but as we know i had to change it due to my athletic position. I'm glad I switched to Instagram. I like getting the opportunity to be more involved with the other athletic teams. I had also asked Mrs. Zamorski for some tips for when I create the posts, for my grammar, and how I word my posts. I talked to Mrs. Boutilier about how I will be getting my stats for the other teams. I saw it as a good idea because I had most athletes' numbers or snapchats anyway. I couldn't wait for our games to start, I couldn't wait to be goalie again one last time. I am on a good track with my school work, I have not gone below a B and I'm making progress telling myself to do my assignments. I started to post the game schedules for boys soccer, girls soccer, volleyball and football. I can't wait to see what my capstone has in store for me this year. I'm glad that I will be able to stay close to the other sports in the school and promote the athletes. Journal 3- I ended up behind in last week's games, I had a lot of projects and my job stuff going on. My job got robbed. They stole an entire table of clothes. Anyway, I posted four games from last week: two volleyball, one girls soccer and one boys football. The girls volleyball team played another game last night, and I will be posting that tonight, my soccer team has a game tonight and I'll post it tomorrow, then the football team has a game tomorrow, I will post that on Sunday. Journal 4- I ended up behind on writing in this journal, I had forgotten about it especially after how busy I’ve been, I’ve been dealing with things at home that have been distracting me from my work, school and my capstone. I realized that I just need to ignore it and just keep doing my work and focus on me. The girls soccer season is over, senior night was full of emotions and tears, knowing that for all the seniors, that was our last game in our highschool careers. I'm definitely going to miss playing soccer. Whenever I had a rough day soccer was my outlet because soccer is the only sport I play where I can really be physically involved and take out some aggression. I cant wait for basketball though, if I had a favorite sport I play, it would possibly be basketball, its probably what I'm best at. I hope this season will go as I hope. I hope we will even have a team! Last year we had to co op with Bulkely which was a bit hard. Hopefully this year we will have our own team and not have to co op. Journal 5- I've been living with my dad since October and it's been really nice. When I was with my moms it wasn't the best place for me to be mentally. There was a lot of negativity and just chaos. My mom texted me asking to go back with her but I didn't respond, I ignored her text. I didn't want to go back to her house after finding out what I found out. It was just something that I couldn't be around anymore. Whenever things come up about my mom and the situation I get distracted, off topic, procrastinate. But I'm not going to let that get in the way of my capstone. This is important to me and I won't let her/ our situation get in the way of me doing my capstone. I want to do well in school. I want good grades, I want to go out with a bang and I won't let my family issues get in the way of my capstone work or any school work at all. Journal 6- This past month has been eventful, I got a lot of hours out of just this month alone, I got a lot of work done this month and it was stressful. My basketball season ended so I haven't posted for the girls since the end of the season. The boys however were in the NCCC tournament and I attended every game to work on getting all the stats and videos for Instagram. It's better if I go myself because I depended on the boys too much to get me videos or pictures of their games, even when they did they would never send it to me in time to post that night. So I went to the tournament games and posted every tournament game. Then came the stats games, I went to every one of those games too. Not just for my capstone but also as a fan and it was absolutely fun watching the boys make it all the way to Mohegan sun. They were so happy and I was so proud of them. That was the first time in SMSA history that our basketball team made it to the championship, sadly they didn't win the championship but I know that they had fun and they played their hearts out at the game. After they won the semifinals, Mrs. Zamorski asked what I thought about making a send off video for the boys. I loved the idea, so after I imported the highlights from the semifinals game onto the computer I started to go around the school and get good luck videos to the boys for their game. I worked on editing and recording for a day and a half and then helping set up the gym for the pep rally. It was a lot of work and running around. It got stressful because we didn't think we'd finish it in time for the pep rally, especially with how much time it would take to export the video, record the video and set the gym up. We got it done though, Zamorski, Aiden and I were very happy with the outcome of the video. We couldn't wait to see the boy's reaction to the pep rally and the video. When it came time, the video was playing and the boys were enjoying the video. The middle school was with us which was nice, up until someone connected their phone to the speaker and started to play meme sounds and tik tok sounds. I was disappointed and angry that a middle schooler would ruin the video for the boys, it's not like it was a video about drug safety or driving safety or anything else. This was for the boys and whoever was connected to the speaker ruined it for them at the moment. I felt so bad for the boys, thankfully the video is uploaded on YouTube for the boys to watch any day and time. The “parade” was nice though, the boys got to walk and play music while I hitched a ride on the back of the trainers cart to record the boys and the students and staff cheering them on. The championship game was fun, it was loud and I had the best seat there can ever be! I was literally on the court, because I was recording for tiger talk highlights. I got a media pass and got to sit where the media sits for when they record or take pictures. It was definitely a great view. I got all my highlights and just need to work on another video for the boys congratulating them on a great season. I'm looking forward to softball this season. I haven't played since freshman year. It feels good to be playing again. I missed playing softball. I can't wait to start posting softball and baseball. Golf and boys volleyball are also starting. I can't wait to attend the volleyball games. Boys volleyball is so fast paced It looks fun to watch. Journal 7- In march the boys basketball team had made it to the state championship game. They had a great season going and I couldn't wait to see them win it all. Sadly they didn't but they still poured their heart out on that court and played their best. At the game in Mohegan I literally had the best seat in the house. I sat on the floor of the court as I recorded the game. That was a great experience for me. I literally sat on the same court they were playing on, on live TV! I was close enough that I could cheer them on and give them encouragement they needed when they possibly couldn't hear all the other students cheering them on. I remember looking at Kemani and telling him “you got this, it's all you Mani.” I remember he looked at me with a lot of tension in his shoulders and it all just released. He got back into his zone and he kept pushing and playing his best. I've known Kemani since we were little kids. It has always been a dream of his to make it to the NBA. I know he will make it one day. He is super talented and I will always cheer him on. For the game, Mrs. Zamorski, Aiden and I worked on a 20 minute video that we made in a day and a half. We held a pep rally and showed the video. The boys enjoyed the video and were very appreciative. It was fun to make the video. I learned that I love to record sports and such and now every now and then I help Tiger talk with their interviews or get videos of things that they may need for a segment. I also decided to help Jenely Collado with her capstone video. I am helping her get clips and then piecing the video together while showing her how the program works at the same time because after all it is her project. Journal 8-Its May now, school is almost over and I dont think Im ready for it to be over. Dont get me wrong I want it to because im sick of the school work but Im going to miss my friends and teachers. After this everyone parts from eachother and goes their own ways. I dont want that. I know that its inevitable but I dont want it to be. I want to stay close with my friends and I will try to make that happen for as long as I can. Capstone is going good. I helped Jenely make her teaser for her capstone video, it came out great and many seniors loved it and cant wait for the actual video. I recently finished making a tribute video for Ms.Schmidt, it came out amazing. Mrs.Boutilier loved it so did Mrs. Zamorski, they entrusted this project with me because of the work I did on the capstone teaser and the videos for the boys basketball highlights and road to mohegan videos. They knew Id get it done and I did. Samra asked me for help on the senior video, to show her how the program works so she can get hours. Shes doing great so far, she has so many good ideas for the video. Ms. Salafia is gone now, her last day was friday May 13th. Im going to miss her a lot. I nearly cried infront of her like three times, I actually ended up crying after dissmissal. I guess I really didnt want to her to see me cry because I knew it would make her cry, again. She will be back for graduation, in the meantime I will truly miss her. She was basiclaly my teacher bestfriend, I made her a personal card and then made a big poster folded like a card for all the Seniors who have her as a teacher to sign and say bye and whatever else they want. She loved it, I know this may be goofy but I had her sign my cacthers glove for softball. The day she left she told me words that just meant a lot to me and I wanted to be reminded of those words when I play. She had me sign the card I made her incase (in her words) "one day I become a famous or popular artist." I laughed because my first choice career is Athletic Training. Maybe in the future Ill have a small art buisness.