Pole Vaulting?

So, when the school year started last September, Darian realized that with the budget cut backs and a cut back in the number of classes that they are allowed to take, that he would have to take some pre-emptive measures to ensure that he would be able to take the classes he wants.  (ie: he doesn't have space in his schedule to take a foreign language and orchestra, and language is a requirement to get into most colleges.)  We learned from Calvin's experience that summer school is much easier than regular semesters, so he could take his harder classes over the summer and get better grades. 

The option that he picked was to take a sport and get to skip taking P.E. for the year next year.  He thought he wanted to play football, but didn't bother to get involved. (He probably missed the tryouts since it was already football season when school started.)  So he thought, Track and Field would be fun.  He went to the practices leading up to try outs and decided that to try pole vault because there were fewer people trying it, and he'd get more time "doing", less time "watching".  The requirements for joining pole vault were that you have to be able to do a sommersault and a handstand.  Now go back 2 months.

Zachary decided he wanted to try gymnastics because a friend of his did it.  When Darian heard that Zach was joining gymnastics he wanted to do it also. So I signed the both of them up.  Where Darian learned to do among other things, a sommersault and a handstand.  Funny how things work out.

Darian made the team, and is now finding out just how crazy a teenagers life can really become... He'll be real ready for spring break in a few weeks.