My Bucket List

Here is a little taste of my bucket list

1) Marry the best husband in the world

2) Find a job I love and never get sick of

3) Go on a missions trip

4) Find the end of a rainbow

5) Be able to give to a good cause consistently

6) Raise a family

7) Sleep on a beach 

8) Try exotic ice creams

9) Train a dolphin

10) Stay in a treehouse hotel

Warrior Girls

Warrior Girls By Michael Sokolove
I will be reading 28 pages per week if I want to finish by January 28
My Goal to finish this book is before Christmas

It’s crazy sometimes when you think you’re the only person who goes through certain situations. But really there’s people in the same or even worse. I’m really glad Mrs. B recommended this book to me because it did make me realize I’m not alone. The Book Warrior girls by Michael Sokolove, is about a phenomenal athlete named Amy. In the first chapter, it explains how Amy grows up into an amazing soccer player who ends up graduating high school her sophomore year and continues to play soccer for University of North Carolina and takes her classes at Chapel Hill. But where the story all begins is not just how great of an athlete she is, it’s when she first goes through the injury of tearing her ACL. 
In the second chapter, it explained more about another athlete name Leslie Gaston who also was a soccer player. She has had 12 surgeries and maybe even more. The book talked about the surgeon that helped her and gave more details to how more and more women athletes are tearing their ACL. It explained how women suffer from ACL ruptures at a rate at least eight times more than men. The injury is most likely to happen in sports like soccer and basketball because in the game there is action that could be occurring from any direction around the athlete. 

My thoughts on this book when I first started to read and figured out that it was about ACL tears and women’s injuries was that I could relate. I had been playing soccer for as long as I could remember and when it came to the time when I started playing competitive that’s when all of my injuries hit me. I guess my body just wasn’t ready for the hardcore workouts and games that had came.

I think the goal of the book Warrior Girls is to make people aware of the huge epidemic that has been happening in women’s sports. The author wrote this book because he saw the massive spread of injuries. So by reading this book, hopefully girls and their parents will think of about their training and train smarter as well as making better decisions so they do not lead up to these fatal injuries.

I think the book is spot on. I wish I would have read this book way earlier even before I tore my ACL. I am looking very forward to reading this book and unraveling the story told about Amy Steadman. It is already a very inspiring book just after the first two chapters.