ballerina bovine
As we gathered our friends and stuffs for a weekend bike ride I noticed the holstein wearing a tutu clipped onto her bag. I knew there had to be a good story behind it.
Anna is a ski racer for the Croatian national team. She was out for a visit to catch some sun before many months of training in the chilly high mountain air in South America, then back to Croatia for more racing. She left today for the mountains.
I asked her if her cow had a story.
Of course! I'm a little too old to have a stuffed animal hooked onto my backpack.
When I first started to ski my coach told me: "Trying to teach you to ski is like teaching a cow how to do ballet."
She placed first at nationals on her very first try. After the race, all the participants randomly chose from the basket of goody bags. She reached into hers and pulled out the ballerina.
Anything is possible she said. Anything
posted by humble bee at 11:57 AM
3 Comments:
what would you pull out of the sack of things someone never thought you could do or be but you did or are?
(Mine would be 3 degrees. HA! take that jack-ass high school teachers!)
you too?? funny thing. my 3rd grade teacher told my parents he thought I was "stupid". he told them to hold me back.
he also threw away my assignments as soon as I would turn them in and often publically humiliated me during class. 3rd grade. wtf?
he can take my three degrees and, well. you know the rest.
I'll have to think about how to answer your question other than bitterness about my third grade teacher, and my determination to prove him wrong...
To this day one of my greatest fears is to be thought 'stupid' or not smart enough. am I done proving myself yet?
unfortunately once we start proving ourselves we never really get to stop. that said, have you proved you are smart? absolutely. proved you're not stupid? no doubt.
but you knew that and always have.
man our education system is f^cked!
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