Soccer Clubs I am Involved in this Winter

Throughout the 2 seasons I have played soccer, I have really grown on it. This winter I wanted to try a a soccer club, but still participate in travel in the spring. I wanted to join a soccer club to get exercise throughout the winter because then I don't have to be rusty when I go back to travel in the spring. And, I love getting feedback no my skills, and learning ways to get around a defender moves that will help during the circumstance your in on the field. Soccer clubs have soccer players from around the world who LOVE playing soccer, and that are in major clubs form where they are from.  When you play with them they are really into it. And, the coach has more expertise and is more experienced rather then a town/travel coach. (even though I LOVE travel soccer). So, in the outcome it was good.


 I am in 2 indoor soccer clubs! YAY! The fist club I'm in is called Skills 11. The instructors call it "Skills 11" because every week they teach you 1 move by a famous soccer player, and you focus on the move the whole practice. You do games involving that move, and you do some other drills with that move.Skills 11 is every Sunday at 2:00 in Waltham. I've only been to 1 practice, but its very fun. We learned a move called the double touch.I worked with this gentleman from Scotland. He had kind of a strong accent of Scottish. But, he taught us very well. I think I will work with him for the rest of the session. Tomorrow I'm getting the shirt that they give out with the logo on it and information about it.

 My second soccer club I am in is called Coastal North. It is at this school called Dedham Country Day every Saturday. I'm doing the club with most of my travel soccer team, and other girls from other team. Same with Skills 11, we focus on 1 thing, and do games for the skill, and then we play a scrimmage at the end. When we are doing the scrimmage, we also focus on the skill we have been learning, and try to practice it during the game so that when we are in a real game maybe we could do that skill to fake someone out.

I love soccer, so if I play it year-round its even better!!!!😊:-P

Christmas Morning

I had a great Christmas! I hope everyone who celebrates it had a great one too.

When I woke up on Christmas morning, I had this wonderful excited thought: YAY! I get to open and get presents! This is going to be the time of my life! After I had that thought I quickly tip toed down the stairs, and my mom right away told me "Nuala don't look in the living room" "Go wake up Flynn" So I quietly ran up the stairs and barged into his room. He was quite surprised but he said I didn't actually wake him up, he was up 30 minutes before just staring at the walls. Once we had gotten down the stairs, and were in the living room, my mom said"someone go wake up dad" "Tell him we're going to do stockings now" Since I knew I was going to be the fastest, I ran up the stairs woke up dad and said we're going to do stockings now.

 When the whole family was in the living room all seated, Flynn and I took our stocking of the hangers and started digging through them and pulling miscellaneous items and candy. I got a book light, thank you cards, a dice game called Flash!, strawberry chapstick and a lot of other different candies. My brother Flynn got some of the same things except for a few. Suddenly, I noticed that there were a lot of Hershey kisses on the mantle. And I mean a LOT of Hershey kisses. I counted them and there were 54, and 54 divided by 2 is 27, so we each got 27.

 After we did the stockings, we started to open some of Santa's presents. I got: Beats (really pricy headphones) by dr. dre, the game Apples to Apples, Color Cord Bracelets, and Opaque Paint Markers called Painters. My brother got 3 Nerf guns and a lot of other stuff from Santa. Our relatives gave us presents too, but with their presents mixed in with the presents that our mom and dad gave us, its to much to mention so I'm just going to mention something that I really loved, and that my brother really loved. I really loved the IPad Air that I got, and my brother really loved the Xbox One that he got.
 HAPPY NEW YEAR!

christmas, christmas, christmas. have a holly jolly chrsitmas

Christmas is leaving me in total suspense. I made a countdown list just because I was so excited. It started at 17, and now its at 4, so that's good. I've been wrapping a lot of presents getting in preparation for Christmas. Last night I was walking around Legacy Place (the mall that everybody goes to in Dedham) shopping for the presents I had to purchase for family. We were basically window shopping saying "nah, I don't think they would have it." or, yes, maybe they would have it." But whats kind of hard is that all the stores are packed with everybody getting their last minute presents. My mom has gotten so many packages from Amazon for presents, and she can't even fit them all in her room. The presents that I'm getting I'm hiding under my bed so that they are hidden.
I believe that it is going to rain on Christmas, and that's really sad. I hope everyone has a nice winter season!

Check out my brother's youtube channel!

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My Elf on the Shelf returned!!

Black Friday morning, I walked down the stairs still half-asleep, and sat on the couch. Eureka! I had remembered that my elf would be coming back soon. Then, I looked to the left, and... my elf scout was sitting on our nook next to the heater!! YAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now Jolly would be hiding places until Christmas morning. If you don't know what an Elf on the Shelf is, well I'll explain. You can buy them, or sometimes they just arrive at your house, and they return on Christmas morning to go back to Santa. They move almost every night to a different spot in your house, and they usually hide on high things. You can even write your elf a note, and sometimes they write back. They sit still all day, and then only move at night. I encourage you to but one if you like elves, and if you like little company.

The Soccer Ghost

                                                The Soccer Ghost

By Nuala Rodgers

One day a girl named Jenny was playing right forward in a soccer game. The other girls on Jenny’s team thought she had been acting a little suspicious. Like when she would be shooting on their goalie and BAM!  She would be gone. Well, it was getting closer to Halloween, but the girls just thought they were seeing something.

This suspiciousness had been in their minds for a couple of weeks.  Jenny’s mom or dad might have been in on this. It would only happen when she would be playing soccer, and her mom or dad were watching.

But on Thursday, they had a game. Jenny was so psyched!!!! When she got on the field, and she was playing, she seemed to magically disappear from the field to the bench, and then the coach started yelling and screaming “WHERE’S JENNY?? WE NEED HER!! GOSH!! WHERE COULD SHE BE??!!” And sure enough you couldn’t see Jenny on the field which made them think she was a GHOST! But the coach was too focused on the game that she was still in shock of where Jenny went.

And, if you were listening closely, you could hear Jenny speaking in a very low voice saying “How am I weird?”

And the girls on her team now thought that Jenny was half-girl, half-ghost, but they still acted like it was so normal, and everything was cool.

But, the girls on Jenny’s team panicked so much when they were at home. At night they panicked, at mealtimes, and at school. And then their next game came around…..

And the same ghost thing happened again!! But this time the girls knew something was up. So, at the end of the game the girls asked Jenny “Why were you turning into a ghost in different times at the game?” “What are you talking about,” said Jenny.

After the game Jenny told her parents about this ghost problem. Jenny said “The-e-ey-y we-er-re ask-k-ing m-e-e-, as though she were on the verge of tears, but her dad stopped her and said, “Oh honey, we just put a fog machine with a foggy ghost on the bench. We really didn’t mean to scare you and you friends.”

“You never even told me that,” said Jenny. “No, we didn’t”, said her parents. “We just thought that because Halloween was coming up, we thought we would try to like seeing a foggy ghost on the sidelines during the game.” “Wow! now I won’t have any friends”, said Jenny. “Oh yes you will said her father”.  “But how did you make me invisible on the field”, Jenny asked.  “Oh with a shadow casting projector, it didn’t make you disappear, it just made you look really dark and hard to see”, her mom added.

Jenny couldn’t wait to tell her friends, or wait she wondered, maybe she should keep the secret until after Halloween?

What do you think she should do?

The   End.

About the Author

Nuala Rodgers is 8 years old.  She plays soccer on the B travel team and loves it. She lives in Dedham, Massachusetts, and goes to the Avery school. Nuala enjoys traveling, and thrives on school, and soccer. Nuala has a dog named Sunny, and a cat named Benny, and loves hanging out with them. And she has a family with whom she laughs a lot.

Sadly, soccer is ending

Sadly, soccer is ending. It has been a great season, and I only have 1 more game in Milton  at Houghtons Pond/Blue Hills Reservation.

I made a lot of new friends, and we've only lost 1 game against Mansfield 2-1. Yesterday we beat the Mansfield team that we previously lost to 2-1. I had both assists, and this girl whom is really good on my team scored both goals. But, in the first half, I let in 1 goal playing goalie. I was about half of a second behind it, but it slipped of the grass and into the net. Since we won, we clinched 1st place in our age group for Dedham. We were all jumping on the girl who scored both goals for us. WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!!

Some of the girls on my team I had already known, but some I hadn't so it was fun to still have close relationships with the friends I knew, but also meet new girls. But since most of my team were in town before, we knew each other. And some of us were even on the same team.

What was sad was you had to leave some of your friends from your team, and from school (etc.), because there are an A, B, and C team. For example, I had a best friend Sarah, and we were in 2nd grade together, and now she is not in my 3rd grade class, she's not on my soccer team. She's on the A team, and I'm on the B team.

I can't forget my soccer COACH!!!!! My coach was my coach in town, and now in travel. He is a very nice guy, and I feel he teaches us a lot of things that help us improve on our soccer skills. What's also funny is that my coach gave us nick names, like I'm Nualr, theres Mace face, T, and a lot of other names. Well, at least I'll be with my same team in the spring!!!!!