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hi, thanks for ur interest in wikinews. the incident u've described in the article does not appear to be news. Wikinews articles need to conform to Wikinews:Content guidelines and i don't think that this does. so i've moved the text from the article to here, in case u need to copy it elsewhere and will be deleting the article. i've also removed a name in the text, in order to avoid keeping personally identifiable information on this site.

English 11 10-10-06 1st Draft of Narrative(Revised)

It was a hot summer day and I was attending a soccer camp at Hempfield High School. After the first day of camp had ended, my stupidity and bad decision making led to me getting into a lot of trouble with my parents. It was summer of 2002 and I had just ended my 6th grade year at Wendover Middle School. During my 6th grade year, I had played soccer for the school but was not the best at it. So, I decided to go to a soccer camp to help improve my game. The U.K. Soccer Camp was a week long camp instructed by United Kingdom Major League Soccer players. A lot of my friends from the team were also going, so I looked forward to it. The first day of camp arrived quickly and I woke up early to get ready. I had a big breakfast to get my energy going, put on my soccer attire, packed my duffle bag, and ran for the car. We were picking up my best friend who was carpooling with me and I didn’t want to be late, I was so eager to get to camp. Little did I know that this first day of camp would end with me getting a valuable life lesson. We arrived at camp only to find out that we were late by an hour. I felt awkward arriving late for our first day of camp but miscommunications happen, so the coach introduced us and I jumped into a group and started learning how to play the game. Lunch came and went and we soon started into the afternoon session. It was very warm and I was getting tired yet time flew by and it was four o’clock and time for camp to end. It was at this point that I learned that camp was being let out at four instead of 5. I had no clue what to do. I decided to use my friend’s cell phone and call my house and let my mom know that she needed to come now. But there was no answer. My friend suggested I call my moms cell, but yet again she had her cell phone turned off. I was totally lost on what to do, until my friend came up with an idea that seemed ok but I was about to find out, it was a horrible mistake. My friend spoke with the British coach and found out that he was staying with a family who lived near our neighborhood. Being that I was only 12, I knew I shouldn’t go with strangers or leave any area when my mother didn’t know what was happening. But my friend pressured me to take the offer of a ride home from this new coach instead of waiting for my mom. I figured my mom was still going to be home so I’d save her a trip and me the hour wait, at the camp. But, the next twenty minute ride would prove to be a big mistake. As I was traveling home with the coach, my mom had left to pick us up. She had thought to come out earlier to watch our practice. When she arrived, there was no team, no coach, no kids, and especially no son and friend. Panicking, she went into the athletic directors office who knew nothing about this soccer camp. Suddenly this became an emergency. My mother phoned my father at work, who then called my friends mother who said they weren’t at her home. My mother rushed home expecting to maybe see us along the way or at worst to have to call the police. Upon arriving home my friend mark and I were on my front porch waiting for her. Needless to say Mark got sent home immediately, even though he tried to apologize and take full blame for the whole incident. I saw the look in my mother’s eyes and knew I had erred and erred badly. Screaming was the very least of the punishment that day. After my mom phoned my father, and after the neighbor heard her yell, she asked me one important questing, who is a stranger? I tried to argue that eh was ok, he was my coach, but she had me when she said, what is his name, where is he staying, and who saw you go with him? The answer to all these questions was, I don’t know. She explained that even the school had no idea that this camp was going on or who was running it because it was held thru the Hempfield Rec. and not the school. She also explained more calmly that even though this soccer coach was “nice”, he was not known by anyone whom could vouch for his character and if he had been a pedophile, we would have been dead, and no one would have been able to save us because we were in his clutches. Believe you me, when she was done scaring the ba-jee-bees out of me, I was never and have never repeated that mistake and never will. In the end, she was right, even though throughout the week, we learned all about our coach and who his host family was, and he ended up being a great coach and an all around good guy. That mistake could have cost my parents, my friends, and especially my life. I will never forget it.

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