Personal Narrative Essay: A Trip To Dallas, Texas

Imagine playing in one of the most prestigious soccer tournament in America where teams from all over the world come to play to win. Fortunately for me I was able to go freshman year to Dallas, Texas . It was an amazing experience that I will hopefully be able to experience again. The feeling of traveling over 3 hours by plane to play the beautiful game was an amazing feeling. The trip started by my teammates and I meeting at SFO at 6 am. After everyone was at the airport, we went to check our baggage and through security. As soon as I was through security it was a long wait until we left for Fort Worth airport. When the time came, my whole team ran to the gate to get on the plane out of excitement and handed the ticket taker their tickets. Onto the plane, we all went and found our seats and sat down. When the time came to take off everyone settled down and put on headphones. For the next 3 hours some people were playing a game, but for the most part everyone was relaxing. When we landed at the airport we got off and everyone was really sore so we all stretched. When I stepped off the plane, that’s when I realized that I came this far to play soccer and I need to take advantage of the opportunities I get and perform. We got our bags and went …show more content…
We went to the field where we were playing and walked over. After everyone put on their gear, we started the warm up and stretched. As we walked on the field, I realized this is where the last two months of preparations and all that training that we did needs to be shown on the field at that game and the games following. Sitting hearing my coach giving his pregame was very exciting just to know that I was in Dallas. As soon as the whistle blew, and the ball was played the game was off. After the game went on for a while, our opponents had scored the first goal of the match. Going into halftime being down a goal and not taking advantage of the opportunities we had, our coach was not