Gag Gifts and Awards

For this weeks blog I am going to just write about how my day went. Well first I woke up and then I went back to sleep. But the out of nowhere I woke up again it was a crazy experience. It has never happened to me before and as you can tell I am using a great deal of sarcasm. But in all seriousness I had a very eventful day. First I had to prepare a lot of gag gifts for my wrestling banquet. At one point during the day I had to run to dollar tree buy a toy horse and then steal one of the shopping carts from dollar tree. It was the hardest gag gift to get. It was raining out and I had to try to sneak it into the bag of my truck. It was all worth it because the look on everyone’s face was priceless when we presented the gift to the wrestler. This was the best year in a long time for gag gifts. I had put a lot of thought into these gifts. Some of them were inside jokes that were completely inappropriate and others were ones that everyone could enjoy. There turned out being 13 total gag gifts. Everyone enjoyed them all as well as the wrestlers.

            Despite the merriment of the gag gifts the banquet itself was very nice. It was the best wrestling banquet I have had in my high school career. It was run comfortably. It was run as if we were all family just enjoying a dinner. Everyone was having a great time and I enjoyed especially since it was the last time my teammates and I would be together. It was a sad moment in my wrestling career but at the same time a very joyous moment.

            It almost brought a tear to my eye when my coach presented me the award for the most outstanding wrestler. I was truly honored. It was a customized award with a list of all my crowning achievements on it. It truly was something to be proud of. It felt great to have so many people support me and look up to me. I didn’t really know what to say when I received the award I felt speechless. I wanted to make a speech but at that moment I could not. I just thanked my coaches and gave them all hugs.

            Later on after the awe of the award had faded I made a speech. I talked about how I could not have done this without the help from all of my amazing coaches. It all started with my grade school recreational wrestling coach. He was there to see me accept the award so he was very happy to hear me speak about him. I also mention how the support of all the parents helped me make it so far. I also included one of Central wrestling’s alumni. His name was Mike Denver he was the one who taught me the moves I needed to make it to states. After thanking everyone and concluding my speech I handed my coaches a special gift. It was an engraved mug in which they highly appreciated. They had never received such an amazing gift. They’re happiness made me happy and ended my already good day on an even better note.