But it felt good just talking to them and also playing basketball with them after we got done talking we went to the basketball courts and played some games with them the first game was us just messing around trying to keep the ball away from them and just having a good time, then we tried to show them three man weave which is a basketball drill that we do here at Notre dame de Namur but it was too hard for them so we just had them do layup drills. After the layup drills we split the basketball team up with the kids and played a tournament of three on three and of course my team was the best as we had the best record. Then we played five on five until it was time for us to leave, just from playing with those kids brought so much joy to them and I could tell by their faces that they were really having fun. That’s what it is all about just giving back to the community and trying to have a positive impact on those kids life, and I really feel that we all helped those kids become better people that day even though there were kids I think they saw what it takes to become a student athlete and a college student. I hope we can do something like this again next year because I really got a kick out of it and it made me feel better as an individual and a person.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Blog #13 Call to Action
On call to action day my whole
basketball team gathered up and we went to the East Palo Alto boys and girls
club to help and give back to the community. Soon as we got there the kids
looked at us like we were superstars for the national basketball association,
we started to talk with the kids so that we could get to know them and explain
to them the benefits of just going to college and getting an education then we
talked about being a student athlete and that is where the kids really tuned in
and got excited about going to college. We told them that we travel to Hawaii
and many other places and they were so excited to hear that noise as if you
were about to pack up and go right then it made me laugh, some kids don’t go to
college not because they don’t want to things just happen when you grow up in a
rough neighborhood or a rough city. A lot of people can’t make it out of East
Palo Alto from what my coach told me because it is a rough city with a lot of
violence and I could tell from when I talked to some of these kids and how they
talked to me.
But it felt good just talking to them and also playing basketball with them after we got done talking we went to the basketball courts and played some games with them the first game was us just messing around trying to keep the ball away from them and just having a good time, then we tried to show them three man weave which is a basketball drill that we do here at Notre dame de Namur but it was too hard for them so we just had them do layup drills. After the layup drills we split the basketball team up with the kids and played a tournament of three on three and of course my team was the best as we had the best record. Then we played five on five until it was time for us to leave, just from playing with those kids brought so much joy to them and I could tell by their faces that they were really having fun. That’s what it is all about just giving back to the community and trying to have a positive impact on those kids life, and I really feel that we all helped those kids become better people that day even though there were kids I think they saw what it takes to become a student athlete and a college student. I hope we can do something like this again next year because I really got a kick out of it and it made me feel better as an individual and a person.
But it felt good just talking to them and also playing basketball with them after we got done talking we went to the basketball courts and played some games with them the first game was us just messing around trying to keep the ball away from them and just having a good time, then we tried to show them three man weave which is a basketball drill that we do here at Notre dame de Namur but it was too hard for them so we just had them do layup drills. After the layup drills we split the basketball team up with the kids and played a tournament of three on three and of course my team was the best as we had the best record. Then we played five on five until it was time for us to leave, just from playing with those kids brought so much joy to them and I could tell by their faces that they were really having fun. That’s what it is all about just giving back to the community and trying to have a positive impact on those kids life, and I really feel that we all helped those kids become better people that day even though there were kids I think they saw what it takes to become a student athlete and a college student. I hope we can do something like this again next year because I really got a kick out of it and it made me feel better as an individual and a person.
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