#Youth and Sports Day

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MAY 19th EXCITEMENT EXPERIENCED IN İSKELE

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the wasted potential feelings are hitting SO ESPECIALLY hard tonight i need to go to sleep

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[espectres]

I'll talk abt this more when im actually awake but it's so asfgdfdggd funny ( painful ) how everyone excels at so many things then there's Shigeo & Shou

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Fandom: The Blood of Youth (少年歌行)

Relationship(s): Lei Wujie & Xiao Se, Lei Wujie & Tang Lian, Lei Wujie & Sikong Qianluo

Summary:

Xiao Se shrugs, indifferent. “The fact remains that you broke my door and study table, and spilled my tea onto the carpet. So that's payment for repairing the door, a new table, and dry cleaning.”

Or, Lei Wujie makes friends in the most unconventional of ways.

[cyb3r-mutt]

I miss not being a supervisor at work cuz like now I have to do so much other shit (often not even part of my job stuff too but whatever I care too much) and I don’t get time to just like tidy the store anymore :( and it always looks bad now cuz my manager only cares about credit card signups so our other staff don’t care about cleaning either

I used to spend full shifts just re folding jeans and genuinely enjoyed it more than anything I am so good at folding jeans they are pristine whenever I do I love love love folding jeans like people usually look at me weird when I say that when I’m training them on folding and it probably is the autism but please it’s a repetitive task with a visually satisfying result are you kidding me sign me up

[dubiousdisco]

Men will be like "i need to look older i need to look so old i need people to think im gandalf" until they're in their 40's then it's "i need people to think i'm young i need them to think i'm a little baby boy i need a skateboard and a baby face im a little baby boy"

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Handball Tournament Crowns Jamshedpur St. Mary's Hindi Champions

Boys and girls teams from St. Mary’s Hindi triumph over Day Boarding in finals Jharkhand’s Tourism, Art Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs Department hosted a successful handball competition, showcasing young athletic talent. JAMSHEDPUR – A handball tournament at RD Bhatta Center in Bistupur saw St. Mary’s Hindi teams clinch victories in both boys’ and girls’ categories. The event featured…

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I Was A Pro Wrestler (For A Day): A Tale For National Pro Wrestling Day

Continuing my “For A Day” series: moments from my past that defined me, whether bad or good. A particular time when, for a day, just a day, I was more or less than I desired to be. Here is a tale that goes all the way back to elementary school. A not so pleasant account from yesteryear, but one I’d hate to lose when my memory finally begins to fail. I call this collection’s recollection…

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oo we've got some races and competitions upcoming for 19th may!

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Providing summer day camp experiences for over 60 years! It's time for Endless Summer Fun at Camp JCC! The non-stop excitement returns to JCC summer camps! From incredible elective classes to sports specialties, campers will be kept engaged and enriched all summer long, and create life-long memories. Campers will participate in themed programming and activities and learn about different cultures. Our camp staff is trained to work with various age groups and meet the needs of all children. Each child is provided with individualized attention in a safe and caring environment. We pride ourselves on the delivery of the highest quality programs and fun all summer long! Camp programming is designed so that families receive the high quality care and value they deserve. Campers in our Preschool Summer Camp, Day Camp, and Sports Camps enjoy the use of the JCC's well-equipped 80,000-square-foot facility, including indoor and outdoor pools, full-size gym, outdoor fields, tennis courts, playgrounds, art studio, and more! Children are provided with a camping experience that is rich in athletics, swimming, arts, and culture. Travel camps take teens to amazing places in New England. How to Register for Camp via CampDoc What is CampDoc? CampDoc.com is a leading, electronic, easy-to-use web-based solution for camp management, online camp registration, health form management, medications/allergies and health logging for camp throughout the summer. This will decrease the time and energy spent during initial camper check-in, reduce risk and liability, and help keep safety in the forefront of camp operations. How do I register for Camp? Go to www.worcesterjcc.org and click on "Register for Summer Camp" which brings you to the CampDoc page. Create a username and password and log-in. A one time fee of $15 per child is required to process the registration. You will then be able to continue the registration process quickly and easily! How do I pay for Camp? CampDoc will take payments for your deposits ($75 per camp week) and create a payment plan for you from the online portal. Can I go back into CampDoc and see what I registered for? Once you create an account, all your information will be saved and useable for future registrations. No need to re-fill out important paperwork. You can log in anytime to review your registrations.

Daily Scrimmages / Contests

Instructional Videos

Swim Option

Camp T-shirt / Basketball

Offensive/Defensive Fundamentals

Grouped According To Age & Skill Levels

Grades 3 & Up: Basketball-Specific Strength Training/ Conditioning / Concepts led by Roberto Fuentes; Certified Functional Strength Coach

All Sports Camp - Grades 1 - 9 Campers receive instruction in a variety of sports. Skill sessions, contests and scrimmage games while making friends throughout the summer. Baseball, basketball, floorball, soccer, gaga, team handball, pickleball, flag football, whiffle ball, capture the flag are just some of the sports to choose from during All-Sports Camp. Daily swim option plus elective periods during the week allow campers time to focus on the elective for each particular week. Elective Activities PICKLEBALL A sport combining ping pong, tennis and badmitton. FLOORBALL Floorball promotes end-to-end plays with quick transitions and fluid game play. It's great training for hockey players. Trax (Railers Mascot) and a Railers staff member will visit camp to referee a competition. FITNESS FUN A combination of sports and fun fitness challenges throughout the week TEAM HANDBALL The object is to throw a ball past a goalkeeper into a net for a goal -- worth one point -- using good teamwork and passing. DISC GOLF (grades 3-9) Play daily disc golf contests as we turn our field into a disc golf course. Special Guest; Ben Tucker; Prodigy Disc Golf Battalion Team Leader. FRISBEE GOLF (grades 1 & 2) Similar to disc golf, players will aim and throw frisbees to a targeted basket or hoop as they participate in various contests throughout the week. Week 7 FLAG FOOTBALL Campers will play this fast paced, fun filled game of 5 on 5 flag football. Rich Gedman Baseball Camp - Grades 1 - 7

Fundamental Drill Stations

Competitions and games

Professional Guest Instructors

Indoor/Outdoor Facilities

Instrasquad Games & Fun Contests

Camp T-shirt

Homerun Derby Elective

Swim Option

Agility and Speed Training

JAKE THE LION: WORCESTER BRAVEHEARTS MASCOT Jake joins campers in a home run derby contest. Program Coordinator; RICH GEDMAN: -2020 Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame Inductee -Two time American League All-Star -Worcester Tornadoes former Can-Am Manager of the Year -Boston Red Sox Triple A Minor League affiliate Worcester Woo Sox Hitting Coach -12 years of Major League experience; Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros, and St. Louis Cardinals Unit Head: Boston Red Sox Fantasy Camps Coach; DAVE SMITH: Worcester Tornadoes former Camp Clinic Coordinator and 3rd Base Coach Previous senior instructor for the Chris Corkum Baseball, Inc., Programs of Connecticut and Western MA WooSox Possible fieldtrip to see the new Worcester WooSox on July 28 at 12:15pm! WooSox vs. Buffalo Bisons Stay tuned! (Additional Fee TBA) TAF Junior Triathlon Camp - Grades 3 - 6 and Grades 7 - 10 REQUIRED PREREQUISITES! BIKE - Should be in good working condition. Parents are required to have the bike inspected by a bike shop and provide a note indicating the bike is safe to ride. NO HELMET, NO BIKE RIDE, NO EXCEPTIONS. Drop off campers and bikes at the JCC on Monday, July 12. Bikes will be stored for the week. SWIM - Child must have passed Red Cross swim level 4 AND: 7 - 10 year olds: Swim front crawl 100 yards (2 laps) Ages 11+: Swim front crawl 150 yards (3 laps). The program works on stroke mechanics and swim endurance and does NOT replace the instruction of a certified Water Safety Instructor. RUN - Sneakers should be in good condition. Head Coach; GABRIELA STOLPINSKI:

8 years of triathlon experience, including; 4 youth/junior national championships, 2 collegiate club national championships, junior state championship title in road racing, and has been assistant coach at the USA Triathlon Junior Skills and Elite Camps.

Assistant coach for TAF Racing High Performance Triathlon Team.

Asst. Coach, Program Director; MATT VALYO:

Regional Athlete Development Coordinator for USA Triathlon Northeast and the Team Director of the TAF Racing Junior Elite Race Team.

One of 5 coaches who run USA Triathlon's Junior Skills and Elite Select Camps as well as the Northeast Collegiate High Performance Camp.

Gymnastics Camp - Grades 1 - 4 This program provides interactive recreational gymnastics delivered in a fun, creative and safe environment. Incorporates tumbling, balance beam, spring board, dance and more. Perfect for first time gymnast. Quality instructors safely challenge the limits of individual abilities.

Tumbling and Dance

Swim Option

Camp T-shirt

Strength and Flexibility Skills

Wahoo Swim Camp - Grades 1 - 9 Noncompetitive technique based program focuses on building strong components of skills in all four racing strokes through drills and activities. Increasing strength and performance in swimming, flip turns, starts and fundamentals. Each day will be a new stroke with instructions through a drill circuit at the outdoor pool in the morning, dryland strength development, video analysis and discussion session, finished off with a swim team style practice to tie in lessons of the day together. Wahoo Swim Club coach; Roberto Fuentes and Aquatics Director; Kelly Sampson will be directing all activities and instruction. Swimmers must be evaluated by Ben Tucker in the 50yd Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke, and 25 Fly before registering. Day Camp Our program focuses on activities that enable children to grow, build relationships, and develop self-esteem throughout the summer. Sports, swimming, climbing tower, nature, arts and crafts and much more. Children are broken into separate units based on age. - Swim lessons taught by American Red Cross certified instructors - Maccabi games Week 9 - no electives - All campers receive a camp T-shirt - Daily free swim Off-Site Electives (Grades 3 - 8) - Archery - Exploring Botanic Gardens - Golf - Gone Fishin' - Hiking & Nature - Horseback Riding On-Site Electives (Grades 3 - 8)

Art Fusion

Basketball

Cake Wars

Court Sports

Camp Crafts

Delicious Dishes

Gaga

J Camps Got Talent

Life's A Bead!

Paper Mache

Soccer

Sports Of All Sorts

Turf Games

Wall Climbing

Extreme Kids Lab is Back!

EXTREME Lego® Robotics

EXTREME Rocketry

EXTREME Keva® Planks, Structures, & Contraptions

EXTREME Crime Scene!

EXTREME Coding

EXTREME Photography Using digital cameras, campers will travel around the grounds of the JCC with a Professional Photographer learning the ins and outs of professional photography. Campers will learn how to use composition and perspective to "see" differently than they ever have before. Campers will be able to print and bring home their favorite photographs from their week at camp. Senior Campers - One Week Sessions As Senior Campers you'll have all the excitement of camp… weekly electives, community service mitzvah projects and help in the planning of camp wide activities. Discover hidden talents and build confidence in yourselves while making new friends and having loads of fun! Extravaganza This week will be an elaborate and spectacular celebration to the end of Summer! From sports to arts and crafts, extra swimming, to J's Got Talent! KARATE DEMO During the week there will be a demo highlighting traditional instruction in the Japanese art of Wado-ryu Karate. Run by Sensei Ron Teixeira and members of the JCC Karate Club. Maccabiah (Grades 1 - 9 Campwide!) A week long, camp-wide competition! Day camp will split into two teams, RED and BLUE, and will compete in various fun activities. Activities will include sports, games, water, art, team building, and most of all TEAM SPIRIT! Each team will create a team chant and a team banner representing their team name and spirit. Then let the games begin! At the end of the week we will celebrate with pride and good sportsmanship during the closing ceremony. Who's it going to be? RED or BLUE? Financial Assistance: A limited number of need based scholarships are available. For information and a scholarship application please contact the program registrar Erika Austin at 508-756-7109 x226, eaustin@worcesterjcc.org Click here for financial aid application. Please make sure you read the instructions for the application process so that all information is submitted in a timely manner. HOW TO REGISTER: Visit worcesterjcc.com and click on "register for summer camp". Important Reminder: MASSACHUSETTS MANDATES WE HAVE HEALTH FORMS FOR ALL CAMPERS THIS IS STRICTLY ENFORCED. If we do not have the forms prior to the first day of camp WE CANNOT ALLOW the child to join the JCC Camp until the form has been received. This policy will be strictly enforced.

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"Born Again with Atatürk” Youth Concert Held on 19th May.

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Maybe I'm misinterpreting or just being silly, but like...it very much feels like my father is making an earnest effort (whether he admits or not) to replace every aspect of his previous marriage and consequently family with this new woman and the "childless carefree bachelor" life he "deserves"

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School Gymnastics: A Tragicomedy

So one day when we were in third grade, our P.E. teacher divided us into girls and boys. (I don’t remember what the boys had to do. Wrestling? Tackle football? I don’t know, probably not at age nine, but that’s not the point. Gladiatorial combat? I still don’t really understand kids’ sports.)

What matters for this story is that all the girls had to do gymnastics. Now—and I suspect this won’t surprise you if you know literally anything about me—I was always terrible at any form of school athletics. I am intensely, almost impressively uncoordinated. This doesn’t affect my life much at 36, but it was often a miserable way to be a kid. The only playground game I liked was playing pretend, because when you are playing pretend, you don’t have a bunch of people ostensibly on your side screaming in your ear, “Pretend faster! Pretend over there! Pretend with greater accuracy!”

Anyway, gymnastics and my clumsy, doughy little body. I couldn’t do a cartwheel. I couldn’t do a backwards somersault. I couldn't do any of it. We had an entire unit on this business and I literally did not learn how to even safely attempt a single move besides the log roll (lie flat and roll sideways on your belly). In retrospect, this seems like maybe it was in part a teaching problem, not a me problem, but that’s actually not the point either.

The point is, at the end of the unit, we were told to divide ourselves into little teams and choreograph a group gymnastics routine. My group, faced with my long list of limitations (more limitation than girl, really) decide my role will be to just forwards-somersault around the rest of the group as they do their moves. (This is itself kind of embarrassing but trust me, it is but the appetizer.) My friend Ashley has the Lion King soundtrack and we all agree that it is a great choice. The movie has only come out a couple of years earlier, and it of course features some funny, peppy options. 'Hakuna Matata'? 'I Just Can't Wait to Be King'? It's all coming together.

Carried on a wave of youthful enthusiasm, none of us even think to double-check which track Ashley has picked. Foreshadowing!

So the day of the performance comes. Another group goes right before us. They had picked “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls, which was a huge hit at the time. I mean, it still is because it’s a classic, but then it was big and new. They step onto the mat and immediately begin to do choreographed dance moves, which they have worked into their routine. We had not thought of this. Oops. Dance moves, of course! So they incorporate the necessary gymnastics, it goes over really well, the energy is high, and now it’s my group’s turn.

I take my place at the edge of the mat, the mat we are required to stay on for the length of the piece. Ashley cues up the track she’d chosen.

A song starts up. Instantly, I recognize it from the movie. It is the very slow instrumental music that plays when Simba realizes his dad is dead.

‘Well, this is not optimal,’ I think. I've been on this planet for nine years; I can see that much. But it’s too late to change the track, and so I tell myself, ‘It’s okay. I’m a performer. I can sell this.’ I put on an extremely solemn face and begin to execute a series of the world’s saddest somersaults.

Friends, when I say “sad” I mean it, in every possible sense of the word. Picture a nine year old with the gravest possible affect, determinedly doing somersaults to the slowest, most serious music she can imagine, in a careful ring around her friends who have actually learned any gymnastics whatsoever. Okay, now as the music starts to pick up and get more hopeful, imagine she gets real dizzy and in front of everyone, she rolls all the way directly off the mat, careening dangerously towards the assembled students.

Somehow, I roll myself back onto the mat, we survive what feels like hours of humiliation, we stagger away, and I blessedly avoid adding “puking my guts out in front of all of my peers” to my very short list of gymnastics tricks.

Later, I asked Ashley what in the world possessed her to choose that song.

“It didn’t have any words,” she said.

(There was absolutely no rule against using songs that had lyrics.)

Anyway, that’s why being an adult is better than being a kid.

I may have to do laundry and make my own dinner and wrestle with more complex existential angst, but you know what I haven’t been asked to do in like 26 years? Somersault for three minutes straight to the musical shorthand for “this cartoon lion cub has no choice but to process the weight of unimaginable grief for his dead dad.” And you know what? If I live another 50 years, I can be pretty confident nobody will ask me to do it then, either.

[wheneverfeasible]

TW: brief homophobic language

Steve plays the piano.

When he was a kid, Steve’s mom made him take piano lessons. He honestly hated it, hated how strict his instructor was, hated that he had to spend hours practicing when he could have been playing with his new friend Tommy. The thing was, Steve was good at it. He had an ear for music and could pick up songs after just hearing them a couple of times, even if they weren’t piano songs. There were also brief moments that his mom would actually pay attention to him, would sit at the piano bench with him and play her favorite songs.

Around middle school his dad told him that only pansies played piano, cutting an end to his lessons and instead enlisting him in every sport he could. Steve liked sports. He was good at that too, and at first his dad paid attention to him too which was amazing, but it only lasted one season. That was fine. Steve loved sports.

Then Steve met Robin, and they laughed at how horrible Tammy sounded singing, because even all this time he still had an ear for music. Then he met Eddie, and even though it wasn’t really his type of music, he could tell how talented Eddie was whenever he heard the older boy play after the world tried to end but they stopped it.

Steve and Eddie grew closer, and sometimes Steve even attended Corroded Coffin practice if he was free, much to Gareth’s original annoyance, and the music kind of grew on him. Sometimes he’d find himself singing the songs to himself in the shower or doing chores, or tapping out chords on the steering wheel when he drove Robin or the kids anywhere.

Steve was at one of these band’s practices when he noticed a keyboard set off to the side. He vaguely recalled Eddie ranting one day about the band arguing if they were going to add a keyboardist to their group or not, but the idea had been scrapped several months ago when they couldn’t agree on the sound.

During an intermission in the practice, while the band was all inside the house getting fresh drinks (Eddie was getting his for him), Steve hesitated before moving to the keyboard. He’d never played a keyboard before, and it had been years since he touched a piano after his father got rid of theirs when he started sports. He didn’t think he’d even remember how.

Despite this, his fingers moved with assurance over the keys, not playing one of the songs he’d learned in his youth but the song Eddie and his band had been playing just before break. His natural affinity for music had him able to translate the chords into piano keys easily, and he sort of lost himself in the music he plucked out for the first time in his life.

It wasn’t until the ending notes were lingering in the air and the sound of applause began behind them that he realized the band had returned, Eddie’s eyes gleaming above a wide smile while Gareth rolled his eyes.

“Fine. Your boyfriend can join the band,” the curly haired youth said, sounding aggrieved, but there was a curl to his lips that said that he was impressed.

Which was how Steve, former King of Hawkins High, found himself as the fifth member of the metal band Corroded Coffin as its keyboardist.

It also took until a week later, after his first official practice as part of the band, for him to realize that neither he nor Eddie protested Gareth’s claim of them being boyfriends.

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