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Saratoga Springs

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                                                                                 Saratoga Springs 2020      Over the summer I went to Saratoga Springs, New York to coach for a week long soccer camp. After camp ended for the day the other trainers and I decided we were going to go cliff jumping. We drove an hour from our hotel to find a beautiful trail we found on an application called AllTrails . On the way we drove through dirt roads with trees surrounding us, it was a perfect view that could be seen in the beginning of a movie scene. Once we arrived we realized the cliffs we were going to were about an hour hike from where we parked our cars. The hike started easy with crossing a small river by jumping from rock to rock. About 2...

You Never Know When Your Past Will Show Up

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      Life has a funny way of making a circle! I started playing soccer when I was just a youngster, I believe I was about 7 years old. I moved to a new town and this was the sport of my choice. Although, I was a gymnast, cheerleader and ran track, I fell in love with the soccer! I fell so in love that I played for the next thirteen years of my life, on my high school team and a town team. Once I graduated high school I decided I needed a little bit of a change. I remember feeling worn out from the same routine . When I started college took the chance of joining my colleges Competitive Cheerleading Team. It was something different and I knew I would able to catch on because of my gymnastic background. Joining my college cheerleading team was one of the best 3 years of my life. Being apart of that team taught me many life lessons and introduced me to my love for teaching and coaching. I am now entering my 5th year as a high school cheerleading coach and going into my 2nd ...

Happy to Sad but Always Grateful

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(My Grandparents) As we may know life is full of ups and downs and its up to us to make the best of our days living. These last couple months may have been the most emotional times I have been through in my life. My year started off with a beautiful service trip to Havana, Cuba with Molloy's International education program. The opportunity was everything I could have dreamt of. I came home with new friends and connected with the people of Cuba\. Shortly after I returned from the service trip, I went on a girls trip with two friends and my cousin to the Bahamas. This happened to be the time where Covid-19 spiked and began to take over the year. While in the Bahamas we began to see the affects on travel. The resort we stayed in was filled with just a handful of people each day. The staff informed us that they were canceling reservations and no longer taking new reservations due to the country beginning their lockdown. This news was very nerve racking because did not know if w...