My life as a Special Olympican of Missouri: Team MO training meeting (third session) 3-30-18 to 3-31-18

Everyone on Team MO 2018

This past weekend, I traveled with my brother Jesse, my friend TJ and the rest of Team MO to Mexico Missouri. We had our third training session. At this session, we tried our uniforms on, trained, learn about social network safety, & healthy snacking. On Friday afternoon, we met up with TJ and his stepdad, and traveled to Mexico Missouri and went straight to the hotel where we would be staying the night. We signed in and got our room keys and right away tried on our uniforms. I was really glad because when I tried on one of my t shirts, it was too big!! After we tried on things, I went to my room and got everything situated. We waited for the rest of the team to arrive, surely everyone showed up. But the athletes who was are from the southwest was a little late to arrive, but they did, and i'm glad they did! For dinner, some teams ordered pizza from pizza hut. While we ate dinner, some people was still having problems with their movbands, and (Jessica's Mom) was there to help, and one of the staff member, who is in charge of the social media and taking pics, asked me to say the athlete's oath in front of the video camera. So that was fun! I'm excited to see it soon! Then after we all socialized with other people, I decided to go to bed. Put unfortunately I stayed up a little longer and talked to my roommate (Shaquana) our other roommate was out like a light bulb (Emily) But I was the first one up in the morning!

On Saturday morning, I woke up at 5:30am. I could've slept in a little bit more, but I was too excited. So I got ready and wait until 6:15am came along and ate breakfast, then got everything ready to go to MMA (where Special Olympics Missouri Sports Camp is Held). Once we got there, everyone went to the gym and the SOMO staff welcomed us and told us the schedule and went to our stations. Three teams were in the same group. Example softball, athletics and powerlifting was in one group. At the stations we learned how to make healthy snacks, how to be safe on social networks, tried on uniforms, took team pics. After lunch we had fundraising updates. At the same time of the funraising updates they also announced the top 10 females and the top 10 of males who got the most MO points. I was the number 1 who got the most MO points, Another athlete (Jessica who is a swimmer) we did a challenge between us to see who get the most MO points until the next team meeting, which is in May. I couldn't believe it! Jesse was number 5! At this time around there was a lot of people who reached their goals, and that was fantastic! and we all went to our team training for two hours. I thought it would be cold outside, but it wasn't. I was so glad it wasn't. The only thing we didn't practice on was standing and running long jump. Other than that we practiced on everything else. At 3pm, everyone was packing up and went to their ways until the next team meeting in May! Enjoy the pics my coach took and the pics I found on Facebook