Right before school got out last year, I took a refereee training course. I wasn't old enough to ref yet, so I had to wait until next season, when I would be old enough to. Anyway, my first game was yesterday (Saturday) and I refereed U-8 kids. All last week I was really nervous. I was nervous about not cheking the time, so the game would go late and that the parents would complain to the ref administrator. It started off really wierd. I checked one team in (shinguards, jewelry, etc.) I then checked in the other team, turned around and there stood a different team. I was really confused, but then I realised that it was a different team. So I checked them in. I call the team captains up (to figure out what team kicked off) and the coaches came up. These are like 30-ish year guys, and I have to tell them to get one of their player's butts over here (only not in those words) When I got that cleared up, we finally started. It gets to ten minutes (the U-8 quarter time) and I am teaching a little girl how to throw in correctly. Then one of those idiot parents decieded 'Oh, I'm twenty years older than this girl, I'm going to tell her how to ref.' During my training course, they told me I was superior to everyone on the field and its edges, so I was superior to those stupid parents.
Everyone......Even if you don't read anything else on this page, I want you to read this. If you are watching the news, you know this, but I will tell you anyway. Katrina just might be the worst hurricane in recorded history. People in New Orleans and the surrounding cities and states are going to be without food soon. Babies will be without diapers, some without food and water. This is so sad, it is almost unreal. Please, I beg you, please pray everytime you remember. There is now rediculous insurance rates, 40 cent gas rises, mortage rates huge........ Think about this as if it was you or family or friends, because for a lot of people it is. There is ten feet of water, thousands of people dead in their attics, without food, some drown, others are so devastated, they would rather die. Please pray.......I am crying while writing this.....it is so hard to live with this. I wish I could do something.....I guess I can. I will use the best weapon ever.....Prayer. I wish this had never happend, but it did.......SO PLEASE PRAY.