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The coach had the list of kids who would participate in the Youth Olympics in Vancouver in her right hand and a pencil in her left. She began, "Now you all don`t know who`s on this list, but no poor sports. "Adrien Abelles, Chree Vaughan ..." The list was endless, even though it only had 15 people on it. In what seemed like a year the list was done and everyone was gone, except me and the coach, Either at training or calling parents to pick them up. Clearly I hadn't been listening to the list."Well, are you going to go train, or do you not want to go to Vancouver?"

Training in the mountains on the coldest day of the year in nothing but a T-shirt and shorts is like swimming in ice. Everyone was shivering and the coach noticed, "Come on, guys, it's not that cold out here. It`s 14 degrees out. GET DOWN THAT SLOPE, NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" One by one, we filed out. Chree and I were last to the training track. We grabbed our snowboards and strapped our feet onto them. As we did so, Chree commenced speaking,"I wonder if we have a special slope and half pipe for youth, or do we get to use the pro's track ? I mean, we get to use the half pipe Gretchen Bleiler and Shaun White use to compete and practice on. This is s-" "Well, since the two of you wanna talk all day, why don't you take up waxing the boards after your extra training? Glad you could. Hurry up, everyone but Millie Gratis is at the bottom waiting for you. And thanks for volunteering you two." With that, we raced out ont o the snow.

"Hi, how was it?" Mom asked eagerly as I threw my snowboard over the back seat, nearly hitting my twin sister, Bailey, on the back of the head. I got in front and mom started the car. "Well, how was it?" She repeated in a slightly more agitated tone. "It went OK. let`s talk about it over dinner. By the way, what is for dinner?" I said. Mom replied happily, seeing as she was pique a second ago," We`re having Broccoli casserole for dinner." At that, I just could`t take it. I officially declared this the worst day ever. I opened the window and groaned aloud as mom drove away. Of course, I had training for another week and four days, seeing as the youth Olympics would start on Friday. So, Our last day was Wednesday and we had an assessment to sees how prepared we were. Those unprepared would not attend the Olympics. Skit, one of the older kids, was too close to the track and his board went all the way to the bottom. Mira, another team member, had to crash to avoid him as he zipped down the track after his board. After assessments, only 5 remained, Mira, Chree, Ethan, Ron and me. "Well," Coach said, "You all have been hard workers and I am rewarding you all with scholarships and a ticket to the Youth Olympics in Vancouver!!!" On that note, we went out to call our parents to pick us up and get ready for the Olympic Reserve Flight 154 the next morning.

D.I.A. was a completely psychotic as I tried to get to the gate. The security was no help whatsoever. I accidentally whacked a guy with my snowboard and pinpointed the climax of his worst day in history. I checked my phone. It said 4:44 and my flight was at 5:00. I had sixteen minutes to get to the gate, get on the plane, unload my stuff, and find the rest of my team. I decided to brake into the fastest dash you can do with a snowboard and three suitcases. I flew through the gate door just as it was closing. I aimlessly dropped my stuff and stopped. Where were they? " Amelia,over here!" Coach`s voice wafted all over the plane. I walked to the first class, except it wasn`t like any first class I have seen in my life. It had a T.V., Wii, Xbox 360, and a loaded snack bar. I went on a raid and stole 8 cokes, 6 chocolate bars, 15 doughnuts, 36 Twizzlers, and a small grape. Chree sat down and took a coke from the stash. "Hey," I said "That`s mine." Ron and Ethan popped up from behind the counter and stole two cokes each. Mira got her own, but traded for one of my Cokes. I shoved as much chocolate, Twizzlers and doughnuts as I could into my mouth as coach walked over and grabbed my other coke that I had left unguarded. "That does it!" I screamed. I left my doughnuts,Twizzlers and chocolate bars, leaving Ron and Ethan to pig out, avoiding the grape.

Thursday was so tense no one even dared to sleep. Chree and Ethan were watching T.V. Me and Ron were texting ideas of what the best prank call to coach would be. Little did we know, coach was reading all of our texts. She wrote to us; this is such fun, reading the-best-prank-call-idea-to-pull-on-coach. I felt like jumping into the hotel pool from our 6th floor window when she sent it. I decided better of the idea. our snowboards were lined up against the wall, ready to meet Olympian Vancouver snow tomorrow.

Vancouver is an amazing place,and snowboarders run free. It would`ve been a fun day,except you weren`t competing in the Vancouver 2010 Olympics for America.