My name is Stephanie. I am a little girl. I love playing with my dolls. I love ripping the heads off my dolls. I would love to play soccer but not good at it. I have a soccer ball. I have two turtles, one called shi nae nae, another called water melon drea. I have a turtles who race. I love to run. I am a fast runner. I want to win.
My name is Eduardo. I am 13 years old. I have an older brother. I like playing soccer. I own a small giraffe called Earl. I can teach soccer. I cannot win a race.
How has your giraffe been this afternoon? He's not doing great... Because of his height, he has a hard time reaching the leaves in the back yard. Aww, I'm sorry to hear that. It's hard getting Water Melon Drea to eat sometimes. Do you help him? Can you just give him leaves? We give our turtles lots of chopped lettuce. I toss in a head of lettuce or two, but giraffes aren't really great at reaching the ground with those long necks either, even though he's so low to the ground by comparison. Oh, jeez. That's really sad. But you're good at helping people, so I think he'll be okay. Have you been helping teach soccer more? I still want to learn. Well, I'm no runner like you, but my strong point is strategy, so I play the position near the goal. The goal is to make the goalie's job easy.  Oh, that's really smart! I just like kicking the ball, haha. I get so excited, and I kinda do things without thinking. Sometimes it works, but lots of times it doesn't. Maybe you can teach me to be smarter like that. I want to be better. We can run together, and you can get better at that, too! Sounds good. You're not too far off from most of the up-front people on my team, hehe. Trial and error, after all. Haha, yeah. Maybe a good team needs both: fast people and smart people, haha. Maybe you think too much to run fast, too. Do you think a lot about how you run, and how you breathe, and how fast the other people are? That might make you slower. Well, that may be the reason I cannot win a race. What do you think of when running? Your turtles or something? I think about my dolls! Hahaha, I think about mashing them around and ripping them up! It's so much fun, and it gets me so excited! So, I'm usually really excited and happy when I run. You should think about what makes you excited, too! Like soccer! Just pretend you're running for the ball. Well, what I tell people to do when I teach soccer, is basically to think of their pets, or something simple. It's a lot like driving. Instinct takes over.