(these are 5 of the 16 girls that I coach)Yesterday was the end of a full year of cheerleading. You ask: why would you subject yourself to hours every week coaching crazy, silly middle school girls? When I first began working at the middle school, I asked myself the same thing. The difference between my notion of how it would be and how it actually is has been immense. The middle school students I work with are not just bodies of energy; they are thinking and feeling and sharing individuals. I have learned so much from them about simple pleasures, like slurpees, and about relationships. So, yesterday when practice was over and everyone was heading home, I realized that it was a true end of something for me - one of the first - on my way to Italy. Our cheerleading squad has created a sort of family unit and has opened all of us up to something bigger than chants, stunts and jumps - to each other. I will miss my girls.
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