A wonderful cheerleading experience

I was cheered for the school football team as a cheerleader last Friday. It was my first time participated in an official game since I have taken part in the school cheerleading team.

  As a new cheerleader of the school team, I have to memorize all those cheers in a short time and do every movement correctly, which means I am not allow to make any mistake in the game. It is because, if one cheerleader were to make a wrong move, the whole formation of the team would become irregular. So, I worked really hard on memorizing those cheers and practiced them every night in the dorm after I finished my homework. I watched the videos of the previous team’s practices and learned those steps one by one, then repeated those cheers for at least three times until I could totally memorize it. Luckily, this did work and I had all my cheers in my mind in a week.

  On the game day, we left Webb at 2 pm and headed to the competitor’s school. All cheerleaders were excited, and I could feel the strong passion in everyone’s heart. We practiced the cheers, chatted with each other, did some make up, and took selfies on the bus. After we had arrived the match court, we did a quick warm up, such as extensions and stretching. Before the game started, the captain of the team gathered us together in a circle. All of us pulled out our arms and folded our hands in the center of the circle, then we yelled our team cheer out loudly, “ Webb feet dominate, say Webb feet dominate! Yahoo!” Finally, the game started at 5 pm, during which the temperature was the highest of a day. We stood under the burning hot sun. All of us got wet in a few minutes, but no one complained about it. We all persisted with our faith. With this positive faith, we really did a great job in that game. All the players were inspired by our cheers, and the atmosphere was absolutely exhilarated.

  Unfortunately, our team lost the game. Nevertheless, we gained things that were much more valuable than the result of the game, such as a closer friendship; a positive attitude toward life and the ability of persistence. Those are the things that we should be proud of!

First day in School

   Finally, the school started the day before yesterday, which means my brand new school life in USA had begin! That was completely excited! Everything in the new school are fascinating, such as the new campus, my new classmates, roommates and teachers. And more importantly, I can feel love and warm at Webb, in every corner of the campus. In a word, if I can use just one word to describe the first impression that Webb had given me, it will be “family”.

  Now, I want to talk about my first school day at Webb. Every girl in Rand got up at 7 am, I was extremely excited for the first school day, I got all my uniform dressed, did some makeups and stood in front of the mirror staring at myself. Honestly, I felt really unbelievable at that moment, and I started questioned myself, am I ready for a totally different school life in a foreign country? Can I understand those lectures with no misunderstanding? Will the classmates and teachers likes me and willing to help me? A lot of thoughts just appeared in my mind. But, I do know that no matter how hard the future will be, I have to go through it with all my courage and faith!

  The classes in the first day are pretty easy, because all the teachers were talking about their class rules and the standard for grades in each quarter of the semester. I found out that there are a lot of differences about the standard for classes between the American classes and Chinese classes. For example, in the American classes, students do more rather than just reading the textbooks, and unlike the examination in Chinese classes, the American students have little quizzes very frequently so that can make sure that students will review the new knowledge every single day, instead of to pile up too many knowledge and review them before one big test, that can really make our study more efficient.

  The last part of the school day is afterschool activities, I chose to cheer in the cheerleading team. As a new team member, I first learned all the cheers, and the most impressive cheer I had remembered is “Webb feet dominate, say Webb feet dominate!” What a powerful cheer! And I will also learn some interesting lifts with the whole team in the future practice time.

  New school, new environment, new people and new goals, although everything is new for me, I will try my best to be fit in this Webb community as soon as possible!