experience you go through that you learn something from or are somehow changed by it.

I had an experience like this a few months ago, so I consider it a journey because

A few months before school started this year I tried out for a hockey team called

Maine Ghosts. At the time I didn't think that I had a chance of making the team because I

wasn't good enough, so at the try-out I didn't try all that hard. Basically the only reason I

tried out was for the ice time. Now that I think about it, even though I didn't think that I

would make the team I still should have tried a lot harder than I did because sometimes,

even if you don't believe it, you may be a lot better at something than you give yourself

credit for and your ability may surprise yourself when you look back on it in the future.

I got on the ice for the first try-out of three. I skated around, did the drills, shot

passed the puck like I was supposed to. I figured I wasn't doing that bad but I still wasn't

good enough to make the team, so I only did the drills and thing half-hearted. The other

The last game we played was good but we lost which is not a fun way to end a

In the next game we tied against a very good team from Buffalo. I was very

even though it was just for the ice time it may have been a bad reason but it did get me

the hockey season. We had our very first tournament in Marlboro, Massachusetts which

think of it that way when we lost a key game.

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