...came the best part of the whole entire summer…St. Johns!!! We absolutely loved going there. We have so much fun when we are over there, lots of memories. A couple days before we left for St. John, Rebecca made a list, “Suggested Items to bring to Eastern Washington.”
“Suggested Items to
bring to Eastern Washington.”
*Please notice the word “suggested”-you do not have to bring
all of any of these items, except for your playing gear and a water
bottle. However, most of it is pretty
convenient to have. If you think of
anything you need that is not on this list, then by all means bring it, and
please let me (Rebecca) know, that way I can bring it, too!
Clothing
Shirts’ include any team shirts you have-bring them! They will serve as our jerseys much of the
time. Bring your jersey as well.
Shorts
Socks, sports bras, etc.-bring enough to last the week, plus
one or two extras.
Sweatshirt, pants-bring these if you tend to get cold before
or after games.
One outfit to wear “out of town”-nothing too fancy, you’ll
probably want a nice shirt and a pair of shorts or pants (your pick, but you
may want to check the weather report for the week ahead before you
decide). * Keep it casual enough to wear
with sandals of your basketball shoes, unless you want to mess with lugging a
third pair of shoes out there along with all of the other stuff that you really
need.
Pajamas-shorts and a t-shirt or tank top; comfortable
sweats-it can get cold at night (it can also get pretty hot, so be prepared)
Swimsuit-optional; we may or may not go swimming. If this is something you want to do, bring
it. If not, then don’t.
Towel-for showers, swimming
Sleeping Stuff-basically bring what you would to go camping:
Sleeping bag or blanket
Pillow
Inflatable mattress, body pillow, whatever you want between
you and a hard floor-you’re responsible for setting it up, so if it requires
inflation, bring a pump or hairdryer, and know how to do it yourself. Also check for leaks before packing it up and
bringing it with you.
Shower Stuff-if you forget anything, chances are it can be
bought or borrowed once we’re there. But
if you bring it to begin with, then you won’t have to mess around later.
Shampoo/conditioner-bring your own if you’re picky, if not,
you can use someone else’s (I’m bringing more than enough, and I’m sure several
others are as well.)
Soap, body wash, razor, wash cloth, face wash, toothbrush, toothpaste-same deal as with shampoo, anything else that you require-dental floss, contact solution, case, whatever.
Soap, body wash, razor, wash cloth, face wash, toothbrush, toothpaste-same deal as with shampoo, anything else that you require-dental floss, contact solution, case, whatever.
Miscellaneous Stuff
Makeup-we are playing basketball, not going to any parties
or beauty pageants, so just bring what you feel you absolutely can’t live
without; we do go out and play laser tag, so feel free to bring anything that
will make you really stand out or glow in the dark-the rest of us will
appreciate it.
Chapstick-if you lips tend to get dry, you’ll want some.
Lotion-same as with chapstick, only think more of your arms
and legs than your lips.
Nail clippers-some people are very prone to nail breakage
during basketball.
Deodorant, hair brush, hair ties, clips-you need these,
bring extras.
Water bottle-bring it!
You need to be drinking. A lot.
Sunglasses
Mini fan-we’ve got a big one, but if you want your own, go
ahead and bring it.
CD player, headphones, CD’s, extra batteries
Camera, film-with our group, you never know what’s going to
happen. Blackmail pictures are always
fun!
Movies-we’ve got a TV and VCR in our room, so talk with your
teammates about what movies are being brought.
Money-we go places, we buy stuff, you’ll want money. How much is up to you or your parents. Keep in mind that we are going to be gone for
a week, so bring enough, but not a fortune.
Phone card or change-parents usually want a phone call, and
so do boyfriends. We are in the library
and do have internet access, but sometimes it’s nicer to hear a voice on the
other end of the line.
Alarm clock-I’m usually up way early and have no
problem with waking others up, but I am not perfect, and you’ll want to make
certain that you’re up on time. However,
talk with your teammates about this; we don’t need everyone to bring their
alarm.
Shoes
Basketball shoes-don’t forget what you’re there for!
One other item of footwear:
sandals, running shoes, whatever you want on your feet when you’re not
playing or when we go somewhere. *Make
it versatile and useful; shoes are the last thing you want to be worried about.
Food and Drinks
You are provided with breakfast, lunch and dinner during the
St. John Camp, but you’ll probably want to bring some food to supplement these
meals, especially if you are a picky eater.
We will also be there for three days before the camp starts (playing up
at Eastern) during which time you fend for yourself when it comes to
meals. We will stop at stores, and maybe
go out for pizza or something, so if you bring money, you can buy food out
there.
Also, if you plan on bringing or buying anything that
requires refrigeration, you need to have a way to keep it cool. We usually have a couple of coolers out
there, and we next to the Home Ec. Room, but it may be wise to bring a
mini-cooler of your own. Once again,
though, check with your teammates, because we don’t need twelve or fourteen
coolers out there; there isn’t transport room for them anyway.
This is not something to get worried about. If you don’t have money or food, you will be taken
care of; your teammates and coaches will not let you starve. However, it goes bother ways; anything you
bring, especially if it’s good, you should expect to share!
We left Rainier June 22, 2001 around ten in the morning from the high school parking lot. Vanessa’s mom, Deborah, who also went with us, gave each of the three cars a walkie talkie. They are so cool. I was in charge of the one in Willmarth’s car. We had so much fun talking to each other in different cars on our trip over. We even got into an argument on whether a polar bear was white or black, it was crazy. Sorry to say Alicia, majority rules.
We left Rainier June 22, 2001 around ten in the morning from the high school parking lot. Vanessa’s mom, Deborah, who also went with us, gave each of the three cars a walkie talkie. They are so cool. I was in charge of the one in Willmarth’s car. We had so much fun talking to each other in different cars on our trip over. We even got into an argument on whether a polar bear was white or black, it was crazy. Sorry to say Alicia, majority rules.
In
Willmarth’s car, Rebecca, Amber, Jody and I listened to various 80’s music that
he downloaded and made into CD’s. Our
favorite song was Low Rider. We ate
Jody’s licorice while we sung to all the songs.
Our first stop was in North Bend; we
got gas, went pee and at an early lunch at McDonalds. When we reached Vantage, by the Columbia River, we were ready to pee again. We stopped at the Rye Grass rest stop just
before going over the bridge. Our next
stop was in Moses
Lake. We got gas and ate at McDonald’s again. It was so hot outside. While we were in Moses Lake,
we saw Shane and the Napavine girls drive by as we were leaving town. From there on we took a straight shot to St. John. Willmarth’s car arrived in St. John first because the other two cars
stopped as a gas station to pee off of I-90 near Sprague. When we got into town and to the school, we
went directly to our room, the library. The
Rainier girls’ have had the library every year
since we’ve gone to St. John,
before that believe we had the stage area in the gym. We had cable TV, VCR, internet connection, we
were parallel to the kitchen and we were next to the Home Ec. room which had
the refrigerator, stoves and the washer and dryer. The Home Ec. room was Mossyrock’s room. We had a sharing policy which turned out to
be a really nice thing when we needed to wash our basketball gear.
We arrived
at St. John’s
high school about 3:30
that afternoon. Willmarth gave me and
Jody the responsibility of taking care of his car unlocker thingy. We ended up losing it somewhere. We unloaded our stuff into our room and we
went to the kindergarten room to see if the futon was there. It wasn’t.
The custodian in the hallway told us that the teacher that owned the
futon packed up and moved. We tried to
get a hold of Megan on the walkie talkie to tell her about the futon. They couldn’t hear us yet. They got closer and they were able to hear
us. We told her that the futon wasn’t
there anymore and she was very upset and disappointed that it wasn’t there
anymore. We had to change our sleeping
arrangements because Rebecca and Megan were supposed to share the futon. We all got situated, unpacked some of our
stuff and got ready for our game in Cheney at five. Yeah…the game…uhhh…we got slaughtered. After the game we decided to eat at Zip’s. The food there was pretty good. When we got back into St. John, Mossyrock and Napavine were feuding
over which room they got to stay in.
Napavine wanted Mossyrock’s room.
Mossyrock won by throwing Napavine’s stuff out their room and into the
hall. It was pretty humorous. Napavine stayed across the hall two doors
down from us. They should know better
than we get the rooms that we have been staying in for years. They picked a fight they could not win.
We woke up
early because we had a game at the butt crack of dawn. We played Winlock. Their coach and his player were a huge pain
in the butt. When we rattled them and
made their players start making dumb fouls, their coach, Mr. Bristow, had a
huge cow. “Basketball is not a contact
sport!” He screamed at the top of his
lungs to the refs. What an idiot! What world are you living in? Basketball not a contact sport? There was something wrong with that guy.
We stayed there the whole day playing games. We lost too many of them and we paid the next day. We had to get up early again the next day. We played one game and lost. Then we went to the Northtown Mall in Spokane. I bought a pooka shell necklace and some lotion. After, we ate at the food court. While we were eating, some guy walked up to me, Jody, Rebecca and Megan at the table and asked how old Megan was. What a dork! We then walked a little more throughout the mall. We saw some of the Mossyrock girls and Mandie. She was on the lower level trying to climb a mountain. When she reached the top she looked up to see that she had an audience watching her from the top level of the mall.
Katie, Liz and Lindsay waiting for the next game at Eastern. It was early.
We stayed there the whole day playing games. We lost too many of them and we paid the next day. We had to get up early again the next day. We played one game and lost. Then we went to the Northtown Mall in Spokane. I bought a pooka shell necklace and some lotion. After, we ate at the food court. While we were eating, some guy walked up to me, Jody, Rebecca and Megan at the table and asked how old Megan was. What a dork! We then walked a little more throughout the mall. We saw some of the Mossyrock girls and Mandie. She was on the lower level trying to climb a mountain. When she reached the top she looked up to see that she had an audience watching her from the top level of the mall.
We went
back to Eastern and played our final game in which we lost. We went to Safeway to get some food. Liz and Katie bought some hair dye, turned
out to be pretty funny. Willmarth bought
some lottery tickets and me, Jody, Amber and Rebecca got to scratch them. We scratched the last one which Jody had and
she wasn’t sure if we did it right.
Willmarth checked the ticket and we did in fact did it right. We just won fifty bucks!! This was so cool! We headed back to St. John.
Before we made it to Pine
City, there was this rock
on the side of the road. One side said
“Andy” and the other side said “Bob”, we never figured out why it was there or
why it said those names. When we went
through Pine City and around the corner, some of our
teammates were sitting on poles near the grain silos. Vanessa, Alicia, Katie and Meeghan. We got out and asked what they were
doing. They just said for a picture and
to wait for us since we were behind because the train kept us from the others
in Cheney. When we got to St. John, we saw that
more teams started to arrive. Barlow
wanted people to play cards with her; none of us were in the mood to play cards
plus she cheats too. I wandered into the
gym and played HORSE with Willmarth a couple times and I actually won a game. If you ask him, he’ll say I didn’t. Mandie and Sheena came in there and we shot
around for a little while. Some more
people came in a little bit later and we started a game of bump. We were in the gym until midnight playing. I returned to my room and Katie was in my
bed. “Katie…get up, you’re in my
bed.” I whispered gently, trying not to
wake the others. She got up and flopped
into her own bed.
Monday
morning finally came and we were ready for those doughnuts, especially
Megan. It was our first game of the day
and we barely lost to Colfax, the defending State Champions, by one point. We were pretty upset by the loss, since it
was so close and we played hard.
Now it was off to the Steptoe gym, but first we had to make one little stop on the way there. We stopped by Mr. Hergert’s old house (he used to live in St. John) and took a picture in his front porch in our kangaroo shirts. When we got the film developed we framed it and sent it to him. He appreciated it very much. The rest of the day we were victorious. We beat St. John and came back to St. John to beat Garfield-Palouse. After the game we relaxed a bit. Mr. Willmarth came back from refereeing a game in Steptoe and told us that we forgot our basketballs in the gym and coach Carlin brought them back for us. We were required to make him some cookies. A couple of us went to the local grocery store and bought some supplies. They came back and we made him some Jody Bars in the Home Ec. room. While that was going on, I washed some laundry so we would have all of our jerseys the next day. We all played bump once again in the gym with people from different schools. We even had a half court shot competition and I even made a couple of them. I returned to my room several hours later after sitting in the hall with some Mossyrock and Napavine girls. I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth and to pee. I saw Katie on the phone with her boyfriend; I had a feeling that she was on there for almost the whole night.
We got up the next morning and found out that we had a pick up game with Toutle Lake. First the starters would have a crack at them the first half and then the players who did not play all that much got a chance at them the second half since Toutle Lake brought at JV team. We won that game. Afterwards, we went to Steptoe once again to play Erika’s team, Kettle Falls. They had this girl named Chelsea on the team and we called her “Neo-Nazi combat boots”. We named her this because she had long blonde hair that was in a million braids, which made it look like a whip and she wore these black basketball shoes that really looked like combat boots. She was a big girl, not fat, but she had some substance to her and she looked like she was unhappy all of the time. We told this to Erika and she laughed. She said that Chelsea is the nicest person you will ever meet. Our mouths dropped. Well, she looks scary to us. During the game, Jody rolled her ankle and it swelled very badly. She insisted that I touch it to feel how squishy it was and so I did to fulfill her wishes. After beating Kettle Falls, we ate our lunch outside near the playground. We played on the tire swing and took pictures on the jungle gym. We waited until our next game against Ritzville. We didn’t beat Ritzville but we should of. We went back to our room for a little while then went to the elementary gym and beat Selkirk. We ate dinner and horsed around in our rooms for a little while and then crashed for the evening.
Warming up in the St. John main gym.
Now it was off to the Steptoe gym, but first we had to make one little stop on the way there. We stopped by Mr. Hergert’s old house (he used to live in St. John) and took a picture in his front porch in our kangaroo shirts. When we got the film developed we framed it and sent it to him. He appreciated it very much. The rest of the day we were victorious. We beat St. John and came back to St. John to beat Garfield-Palouse. After the game we relaxed a bit. Mr. Willmarth came back from refereeing a game in Steptoe and told us that we forgot our basketballs in the gym and coach Carlin brought them back for us. We were required to make him some cookies. A couple of us went to the local grocery store and bought some supplies. They came back and we made him some Jody Bars in the Home Ec. room. While that was going on, I washed some laundry so we would have all of our jerseys the next day. We all played bump once again in the gym with people from different schools. We even had a half court shot competition and I even made a couple of them. I returned to my room several hours later after sitting in the hall with some Mossyrock and Napavine girls. I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth and to pee. I saw Katie on the phone with her boyfriend; I had a feeling that she was on there for almost the whole night.
Hanging out with the Mossyrock and Napavine girls in the hallway.
We got up the next morning and found out that we had a pick up game with Toutle Lake. First the starters would have a crack at them the first half and then the players who did not play all that much got a chance at them the second half since Toutle Lake brought at JV team. We won that game. Afterwards, we went to Steptoe once again to play Erika’s team, Kettle Falls. They had this girl named Chelsea on the team and we called her “Neo-Nazi combat boots”. We named her this because she had long blonde hair that was in a million braids, which made it look like a whip and she wore these black basketball shoes that really looked like combat boots. She was a big girl, not fat, but she had some substance to her and she looked like she was unhappy all of the time. We told this to Erika and she laughed. She said that Chelsea is the nicest person you will ever meet. Our mouths dropped. Well, she looks scary to us. During the game, Jody rolled her ankle and it swelled very badly. She insisted that I touch it to feel how squishy it was and so I did to fulfill her wishes. After beating Kettle Falls, we ate our lunch outside near the playground. We played on the tire swing and took pictures on the jungle gym. We waited until our next game against Ritzville. We didn’t beat Ritzville but we should of. We went back to our room for a little while then went to the elementary gym and beat Selkirk. We ate dinner and horsed around in our rooms for a little while and then crashed for the evening.
The next
morning we got up to play Gar-Pal again and we beat them once more. Sunnyside Christian was our next victims; we
had no problem kicking their butts.
Later on that day, we played Tekoa-Oaksdale and beat them. That was the only day we won all of our
games.
We all got
showers, cleaned up and dressed and were on our way up to Spokane to play laser tag. We got there and had to wait our turn because
some other group was in there at the time.
It turns out that the group was a bunch of Black Hill’s football players
here for the football camp in Cheney. We
all paid at the desk and got our names.
I picked ENFORCER. We all finally
got to go up to the room where we got all equipped with our laser tag
gear. I was so excited. I was bound to get first place this
time. We went into the play field and I
was shooting everything in sight. Before
I made my way to the top…I saw Vanessa and turned around the corner as fast as
I could before she shot me. I figured I
lost her as I mazed through the playing field.
As I turned the next corner, I saw someone in one of the mirrors and I
was in such a hurry I ran right smack into the wall. I found out that the person in the mirror was
me. Vanessa was there to witness the
whole thing, she didn’t feel sorry for me one bit as she laughed hysterically
and shot me anyways. After my little run
in with the wall, I finally found myself up on the top platform of the playing
field looking down on everyone else and shooting the crap out of them. Willmarth finally made his way up there, found
me and shot me a couple times and then moved on. I tried to shoot as many people as possible
before our time ran out. I saw Alicia
and Megan huddled behind a wall, as I was about to shoot them, time ran
out. At that time, I wasn’t sure who
would get first. We went into the little
room to take off our laser tag gear and put them on the hooks. We walked into the lobby and waited for the
results. It took a couple minutes to
show on the reader board who won. I saw
my name: ENFORCER as the first place finisher.
“Yeah…I won!! In your face
Willmarth!” The only other one I could
remember was Jezebel, who was Rebecca, finished in second place.
After laser
tag we went to Dick’s, a lovely hamburger place right off of the freeway on
Division. I remember waiting in line and
trying to drop kick some seagulls that got a little too close to me. I almost got one. There are always a ton of seagulls trying to
con people out of food, but they aren’t the only creatures trying to con
food. There are always bums hanging out
on the street near Dick’s. When we go to
Dick’s Megan must buy the apple pies.
This time around she bought six of them.
They are pretty good little pies.
On the way
back to St. John,
we saw a thunder and lightning storm out in the distance of the Palouse and
Rebecca took a picture of it. It is a
really cool picture too. We got to St. John and went into
the school. Everyone was going crazy!! Onalaska was playing a treasure hunt game in
the school…one of the girls asked me if I had a purple shoestring. I asked myself, why in the world would I have
a purple shoestring? I hate purple with
a passion! Napavine was playing some
pick up games with a bunch of random girls.
I went in there to see what was going on. Shane, Mandie, Sheena, Hailey and some of the
St. John girls
were playing a “for-fun” game. Shane
told me if I wanted to play to go get my jersey. I ran into our room and grabbed my stuff…I
was so excited that I was asked to play with them. I had a great time playing with other
people. After the game, all of the Rainier girls went outside to take a picture out in front
of the high school where the sunset was.
I asked Mandie if she wanted to be in it. She kindly rejected but we insisted and she
went along with us.
For some
odd reason, all of the Rainier girls decided
to put on makeup and listen to Moulin Rouge.
All of them except me and Barlow were wearing makeup. After a while, they all tried to catch me and
Barlow and put it on us as well. Well,
me and Barlow decided to make it into a game.
Kind of like a hide and go seek game but we can see them and they can
not see us. At one point just about
everyone that participated in the camp were in our room. A few of them did know who we were and as the
night grew, just about every girl was trying to find me. They caught me a couple times and I wiggled
away and ran. The girls’, who did put
makeup on, went into the gym and posed with Mr. Willmarth.
We ended up circling the school at least two times. We ended up near the elementary school where the playground was and walked towards the high school when we spotted Sheena’s car. Barlow and I walked towards the car and noticed that Mr. Stamper and Mr. Hendricks were in the car with an exercise bike. We started talking to them and we noticed that they were slurring their words a little. We asked where they were and they said that they knew some people in Spokane that they went and visited. They went and got drunk. I thought it was pretty funny. We left as they were parking the car in the back of the school and decided to go back into the school. I think they got tired of it because some people were washing the stuff off of their faces and the talent show was about to start.
Just before it started, we persuaded Barlow to play the song from the Fiddler on the Roof. We told her that one of the lunchroom ladies had a violin and she was willing to go and get it. She agreed after awhile. While she was tuning it, we were all in the cafeteria watching the other teams of girls make fools of themselves. Some of us even participated in some of the activities. It was finally Barlow’s turn and she went up on stage and wowed everyone with her song. It sounded awesome and I am glad she did it.
After the talent show came the funniest thing in the whole wide world. As the legend goes…when the Rainier girls’ started coming to the St. John camp some years ago, they used to stay in the gym on the stage area. Well, some stories generated from them and were passed down every year to the new girls who came to camp. I heard the story my first year I came as a sophomore. I guess one night while the girls slept, someone got up to use the bathroom and she heard someone in the gym bouncing a ball. When she looked into the gym, a ball bounced from one end of the baseline all the way down to the end of the baseline. The weird thing was that there was no one in there. She was totally freaked out and told the rest of them the next day. From there on, people were afraid to go into the gym at night because it was haunted. Anyways, back to the story, after the talent show, me and Barlow just finished taking a shower in the gym locker room. We were getting ready to brush our teeth, when I realized I forgot my toothbrush in our room. I told Barlow I would be back in a minute, so she stayed in the locker room. As I was walking out, I heard giggling and a ball bouncing. I looked to the right and saw some girls hiding behind a garbage can. I looked closer and found out it was Amber and Sheena waiting to scare us as we came out of the locker room. “Ha ha guys, what are you doing?” “We were going to scare you when you came out.” “Oh…well, you can still scare Barlow, she’s still in there, and I’ll play along and pretend.” I went into the room and grabbed my toothbrush. I came back into the gym and smiled at them as I went into the locker room. I brushed my teeth and told Barlow to wait for me. I grabbed my shower stuff and we left the locker room. “AHHHHHHH!!!” They yelled at us as they came out from behind the garbage can, bouncing the ball. “Barlow run, they’re going to get us!!” “Oh holy hell!” Barlow screamed as she darted out of the gym like her pants were on fire. Me, Amber and Sheena all fell down on the hard gym floor laughing hysterically. It was so funny we all started crying. She peeked her head around the gym door to see who it was that scared her. She was so mad that we freaked her out so badly, however she had a good sense of humor about it. That night we traded contact info with some of the Mossyrock girls as we sat in the hallway until about two in the morning.
We were so burnt out by the end of the week. It was our last and final day at St. John. We started out the day with Colfax. That game was close just like the first one. We should have won but we ended up losing by two points this time. A lot of people came and watched us play. All of them were routing for us to beat Colfax because no one really liked them. I noticed in the stands that Onalaska was all there with their notebooks writing down everything that we were doing. Fuel for the season...ha ha, I did the same thing back to them when they played, but it wasn’t as obvious. We played Ritzville one last time and we just barely lost to them again. Our last and final game at St. John was again Gar-Pal, man; I was getting sick of playing these guys. However, the St. John coach Carlin tried to make the schedule as diverse as they could. For example, they tried to let the western Washington teams play the eastern Washington teams because we always see each other in league play, they tried to stay away from that if it was possible. Anyway, we beat Gar-Pal once again and we ended our St. John experience with a win.
It was time to go home and we weren’t ready to leave St. John, our last time here ever to play basketball. As we picked up Jody and Liz’s bed, we found Willmarth’s key un-locker thingy underneath it. It was missing the whole week and we finally found it. We packed up all of our belongings and shoved them into the cars we came over with.
I will never forget the best times at St. John. I will truly miss everything about that place. They were my best memories about high school basketball.
We ended up circling the school at least two times. We ended up near the elementary school where the playground was and walked towards the high school when we spotted Sheena’s car. Barlow and I walked towards the car and noticed that Mr. Stamper and Mr. Hendricks were in the car with an exercise bike. We started talking to them and we noticed that they were slurring their words a little. We asked where they were and they said that they knew some people in Spokane that they went and visited. They went and got drunk. I thought it was pretty funny. We left as they were parking the car in the back of the school and decided to go back into the school. I think they got tired of it because some people were washing the stuff off of their faces and the talent show was about to start.
Just before it started, we persuaded Barlow to play the song from the Fiddler on the Roof. We told her that one of the lunchroom ladies had a violin and she was willing to go and get it. She agreed after awhile. While she was tuning it, we were all in the cafeteria watching the other teams of girls make fools of themselves. Some of us even participated in some of the activities. It was finally Barlow’s turn and she went up on stage and wowed everyone with her song. It sounded awesome and I am glad she did it.
Lindsay tuning the borrowed violin.
After the talent show came the funniest thing in the whole wide world. As the legend goes…when the Rainier girls’ started coming to the St. John camp some years ago, they used to stay in the gym on the stage area. Well, some stories generated from them and were passed down every year to the new girls who came to camp. I heard the story my first year I came as a sophomore. I guess one night while the girls slept, someone got up to use the bathroom and she heard someone in the gym bouncing a ball. When she looked into the gym, a ball bounced from one end of the baseline all the way down to the end of the baseline. The weird thing was that there was no one in there. She was totally freaked out and told the rest of them the next day. From there on, people were afraid to go into the gym at night because it was haunted. Anyways, back to the story, after the talent show, me and Barlow just finished taking a shower in the gym locker room. We were getting ready to brush our teeth, when I realized I forgot my toothbrush in our room. I told Barlow I would be back in a minute, so she stayed in the locker room. As I was walking out, I heard giggling and a ball bouncing. I looked to the right and saw some girls hiding behind a garbage can. I looked closer and found out it was Amber and Sheena waiting to scare us as we came out of the locker room. “Ha ha guys, what are you doing?” “We were going to scare you when you came out.” “Oh…well, you can still scare Barlow, she’s still in there, and I’ll play along and pretend.” I went into the room and grabbed my toothbrush. I came back into the gym and smiled at them as I went into the locker room. I brushed my teeth and told Barlow to wait for me. I grabbed my shower stuff and we left the locker room. “AHHHHHHH!!!” They yelled at us as they came out from behind the garbage can, bouncing the ball. “Barlow run, they’re going to get us!!” “Oh holy hell!” Barlow screamed as she darted out of the gym like her pants were on fire. Me, Amber and Sheena all fell down on the hard gym floor laughing hysterically. It was so funny we all started crying. She peeked her head around the gym door to see who it was that scared her. She was so mad that we freaked her out so badly, however she had a good sense of humor about it. That night we traded contact info with some of the Mossyrock girls as we sat in the hallway until about two in the morning.
We were so burnt out by the end of the week. It was our last and final day at St. John. We started out the day with Colfax. That game was close just like the first one. We should have won but we ended up losing by two points this time. A lot of people came and watched us play. All of them were routing for us to beat Colfax because no one really liked them. I noticed in the stands that Onalaska was all there with their notebooks writing down everything that we were doing. Fuel for the season...ha ha, I did the same thing back to them when they played, but it wasn’t as obvious. We played Ritzville one last time and we just barely lost to them again. Our last and final game at St. John was again Gar-Pal, man; I was getting sick of playing these guys. However, the St. John coach Carlin tried to make the schedule as diverse as they could. For example, they tried to let the western Washington teams play the eastern Washington teams because we always see each other in league play, they tried to stay away from that if it was possible. Anyway, we beat Gar-Pal once again and we ended our St. John experience with a win.
It was time to go home and we weren’t ready to leave St. John, our last time here ever to play basketball. As we picked up Jody and Liz’s bed, we found Willmarth’s key un-locker thingy underneath it. It was missing the whole week and we finally found it. We packed up all of our belongings and shoved them into the cars we came over with.
I will never forget the best times at St. John. I will truly miss everything about that place. They were my best memories about high school basketball.
