Punishing Permit Test

Before you come to conclusions and assume that I'm not smart because I thought the permit test was hard, let me explain.

If you ask almost any fifteen or sixteen year old about the permit test, most would say that it was a piece of cake.

"It was annoying cause it took forever, but it's super easy," an anonymous 9th grader stated.

"And how long did it take you to finish the test?" I asked them.

"45 or 50 minutes, probably."

Well, that wasn't the case for me. That morning I asked my mom to pick me up from school so we could go straight there. The place closes at 5 pm and it says on their website that all tests have to be done by 4, so I wanted to get there earlier. School ends at 2:25, so by 2:30 I figured we would be driving down to the DMV in Heber.

Wellll, after not being able to find my social security card, we ended up leaving for the DMV at 4:15. We got there, filled out the forms, and took my picture. After all of that the guy entering everything asks one of his co workers what time I had to take the test by. Luckily he said that it had to be done by 4:50, which left me at that time fifteen minutes to start and finish it.

I said that I would take it, and after warning me about the time and so on, he finished entering my stuff. I ended up starting the test at 4:40. Yep. I only had 10 minutes to take the permit test, which, by the way, is 50 questions.

And yes, I failed. I ended up with a score of 38/50, which was the cherry on top of my wonderful evening. Why? The score that was required to pass was a 40/50, which meant I would have passed had I gotten just two more questions right.

My permit!

If you live in Utah, are about to turn fifteen (or already have), and wan't go get your permit, study the Utah Drivers Handbook. Most people have them on hand from past tests, or you can find them at any DMV. I found a PDF version online that I've been using to study. Click here to open it.

PC / Brighton Game

Last Tuesday both of the Park City Girls Lacrosse teams played Brighton, and they were both close and intense games. They were away games for PC, held by Brighton's high school. It was a perfect day for lacrosse. (Oh and it was also my birthday)

Varsity started first half with strong playing, but so did Brighton. They quickly scored the first two goals against Park City, which left all the spectators and players on the edge of their seats. They wouldn't give up that easily though. By half time Park City made some great shots to goal and were beating Brighton 4-3. After that they didn't let up. They made six more goals and only let another in from the other team, beating Brighton's varsity team 10-4. For more details on the varsity game visit Morgan's blog.

The Park City JV team watched their team play for the first half, and despite wanting to see the game through, started warming up. You could tell from everyones warm up that we wanted to win this game. We had recently beat them in the Gathering of the Tribes tournament 10-6, so we knew that they would also come out wanting the win more than ever.

Park City Miners v.s. Brighton Bengals
Photo courtesy of PCHS and BHS

Varsity's game ended and we quickly took the field to warm up on the goal with some 2 v 3s. We ran through that a bit then practiced our free position shots with rapid fire on the goalie. The referees called us up for stick check, and then we gathered into our huddle. The line up was read and our coach and captains riled us up again with some encouraging phrases and plans for the game. We cheered and jogged onto the field, suspense hanging in the air.

Both teams started the game intensely, yet Park City couldn't quite get comfortable. Hail mary's were thrown and we threw the ball away many times, which led to a half time score of 3-3.

We huddled and talked about the first half. Everyone clearly wanted this win, yet we were using that as carelessness and need to get to the goal. We decided to reign it in for second half and use our intensity as focus. Slow it down and make smart passes, cuts, and shots. The team went out onto the field second half with a fresh mindset, ready to win. We worked together and played smarter, which led to a victory. Park City made 6 more goals and only let in 2 from Brighton. The final score was 9-5, and we remained undefeated!