I play sports, I’ve always played with no safety equipment on I have always take risks , almost all the time I get worried about what could happen to me if I don’t use safety equipment, but i just jumped into the game most of the time I didn’t pay attention and I was in danger of getting hit by the ball. 

It was the bell ringing it was time to go to lunch I was so excited because my friends and I were about to play a basket ball game against other friends.

My team/friends were ready to play we all stood in the middle of the basketball court.  I remember watching other kids playing on the other side, they asked me

“Juan Pablo are you ready?”,
“yes”,
I repplied,
“Okay”,
  they told me
“Juan Pablo, you go on the left wing “,

I went back a few steps not giving the back to the game because you never know if they start the game in that moment. I had to be super alert.

I can still remember all the excitement I was experiencing, I felt butterflies fluttering in my stomach. It was the first year I was playing basket, I was good in soccer, but in basket? I was so happy to give it a try. All my friends were glad to have me in their team.

I got to my spot then one of my friends said
“okay, let’s start!”,
I remembered the voice echoing threw the field, I ran to try to get noticed to get the ball but my friend Franco didn’t notice me, so I started calling out his name
“Franco! Franco!”.
There’s when he threw the ball to me I ran with the ball I knew I was getting chased on, so I passed it back to Franco thinking about an strategic move.
I started running near the basket so Franco could pass me the ball and I could score. I was all sweated and kept my feet moving.

I was pushed with such tremendous force by two of my friends and ended up on the floor. I couldn’t stand up, my knee was killing me. My friends run up to me and asked
“ are you okay? Stand up!” ,
looked up to them and they could see the pain in my eyes.  Tears started rolling down my cheeks…
“Let me help you”,
Enrique said, and at the same time Memo ran down to the clinic to get the nurse. Suddenly a teacher in duty appeared and started asking me questions about the incident… I can’t exactly remember what she asked, I was still crying and on the floor.  I felt that this moment was lasting for ever… Finally, Lulu the school nurse appeared.  With her angelical face she asked

“What happened Juan Pablo”,

as she started carefully lifting me from the floor and helping me to sit on a wheel chair. She pushed me to the clinic and my friends were following us. Once we got to the clinic, the recess bell rang. Lulu turned to my friends and said.

“Don’t worry guys, I’ll take care of your friend, please tell Ms. Archie about Juan Pablo and let her know that we are already taking care of him”.

The doctor checked my knee. It was all swollen so the doctor called my mom, who was in class, because you probably don’t know about it… She is a teacher at school, she teaches Pre-kinder.  She came up to the clinic, I could see she was feeling preoccupied about me. The doctor told her, he needs to get an x-ray. So she went to get the car and pulled up to the main entrance, she took me to the hospital and there the doctor took care of my knee.

Be more careful when we play because if we don’t do that we might get hurt. Always use protection when you play or if you don’t use you could think before playing the game if it’s a good idea.