BING BING You wake up by your 7:15 alarm. You don’t want to get out of bed because you are so tired! But then, you remember…. you have a field trip today! The thought of your super fun field trip wakes you right up! You get out of bed and dress really warm. You dress warm because you remember how your teacher told you to dress warm. She told you this because you are going curling! There are so many different roles in curling. Some challenging, some not so challenging. But they are all super fun.

Sweeping was really fun. It was different than in school because you actually swept ice away! It was really fun sweeping. You got to work with friends. When you swept it really helped because it made the stone go either faster, or more towards the left/right. But you had to sweep really hard and really strongly to actually affect how fast or in what direction the stone goes in. For example, sometimes when we swept the stone it still went to the side or went too slow. You had to do a lot of teamwork with sweeping. An example of this is when you are sweeping you have to make sure that you stay in the back if you decided to go in the back or the front if you decided to go in the front. You need to make sure you stay in the back/front to make sure you don’t bump into each other

Delivering the stone was pretty different than in school. It was also really fun. I think this because in school we delivered with really light stones. On the trip we delivered heavier stones. But even though we had heavier stones they were much lighter than I expected. It was lighter than I expected because our P.E. the teacher said that it would be super hard and heavy to deliver. When I first tried delivering I had a pretty good shot. But it was too hard. When I delivered it hard it was good though because I knocked a stone out of the house so the other team didn’t get a point. But, again I delivered it hard because I expected it to be harder to deliver. My friends were saying, “Good Job Sydney! That was so good!” But I wasn’t looking at the house when I delivered the stone so I was thinking, huh? What just happened? Overall delivering the stone was really fun.

You are at the end of your field trip. You don’t want to leave because you had so much fun! It was even more fun than your expectations. And you had pretty high expectations for the trip. You got to try all the positions and you think you did pretty good. You get off the ice and get onto the bus. You daydream about the next time you will be able to go curling the whole ride back to school because you can’t imagine not going curling again. Overall curling was really fun, but different from school. I loved trying all the positions.