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[This article is not the original. I lost the original because my damn computer was freaking out and I had to shut it down, so I couldn't save it. I'll try to make it as good as before. Don't you hate it when it does that?!?]

My math test went ok. We got another day to work on it. He told us what answers were right and which ones we got wrong, so I got to fix some of them. I still missed a few though.

After school it was off to paintball right? Well a few of us walked over to Sammy B's and had some pizza. The lady kept forgetting me, so I got a free piece! Awesome. So, then we go over to Taco Bell at the Pavillions and wait for one of the other drivers. Some of the littler kids have lunch there too. Then we finally leave for the paintball place.

Well we planned to be there at 3 o'clock, but we were still driving at 3:12. In the car, my friend Justin was yelling at the other cars and saying stuff like "Hi! How's it going?" or "Ford sucks!" He was yelling at these two kids in a red Honda, and we knew that they thought he was a flamer. It was hilarious! Luckily we were turning left and they were heading straight.

So, we finally get to the paintball place and pay our entrance fee. By this time it was about 4 o'clock. It was off to paintball right? Well we tried to bring our own ammo in but they caught us right before the first game. So we had buy theirs and use it the whole time. All of us were pissed. So about $80 of paintballs were wasted. (I think the guy who bought them is going to try and return them) So, we missed the first game.

Ok! Then the first game! It was fun. I tried to get more adventurous and go out in the trenches, but this cammo guy I went with got shot first thing, so we turned back. I just kinda helped guard the base and didn't do any real running around all over the place. It's hard to tell who won sometimes. They divide you into two teams and you each get a base.

Right after the first game, this little 7th grader who was with us, yelled out in the waiting room that Justin (who was yelling before) didn't have his barrel plug in. So, Justin couldn't play for the rest of the day. We all wanted to shoot the little 7th grader.

Then the second game, our team had a plan. We were going to storm the other team first thing and capture their base. It worked! We definitely won that game! It was awesome! I took up a sniper position and kept a few people on their toes. It was intense. So, we won!

The third game we were back at our first base and we wanted to do the same thing and we did get out there pretty far but we didn't storm them like we had before. I took up another sniper position and didn't get hit at all. I kept their team from getting to the farthest left corner. I'm really good at a sniper position! I get too clumsy and don't move fast enough to be moving around all over the place. But it was COOL!

Then in the last game, my friend Jeff (Justin's brother) didn't play, he was on the other team anyway. I didn't have such good luck in this game. I got hit with my first paintball! It hit my gun first and as I raised my hands, someone hit tha back of my left hand. It hurt like a BANCHEE! I went and tagged my base and took a position a little farther back. I kept trying to keep this guy from shooting us, but he got a shot off on me and it hit my right hand that was on the trigger. It hit my pinky up around the knuckle, but since my hand was in a fist pretty much, it doesn't hurt as bad as the other one. After you get hit twice you're out of action until the next game. As I was walking out, my friend Ernest said to me, "That was you Alex? You little punk." Hehehe...

All in all, it was an AWESOME day! (the only thing that annoyed me was my brother's little friends and that they wouldn't let us use our paintballs we brought) Now I have the battle scars! It was awesome! There were a few girls that played and they were on our team. If you haven't gone, I suggest you try it once. It's the best! I still like laser tag, but this is something you really can't compare it to.

I saved some paintballs. I am sore and tired. I have been in a battle.