One time when my opinion really mattered was last year, which was my senior year of high school, during basketball season. I was one of the captains so in many ways my opinion mattered. Also, my coach would ask me questions about different things and valued my opinion and what I had to say. Also, in school my opinion mattered because sometimes certain teachers and even the principle would ask me things about the school or about classes to hear what I thought or what I had to say. Another time that my opinion mattered was when I was getting my first car. My dad came car shopping with me but ultimately it was up to me what car I wanted. My dad would help me look for a good, fairly cheap car but the decision was mostly mine since I would be paying for most of it.

I went to the hockey games last weekend when we played the Wisconsin Badgers. The game in Friday night was especially fun because it was such a good game. We were down 3 to 2 in the 3rd period which is when a bunch of my friends left but we ended up scoring before the end of the third to send it into overtime. In overtime not too much happened until the last 2 minutes. We got a fastbreak two on one and scored with 1:46 left in overtime. It was crazy and everyone was freaking out. On my way out of the arena i called one of my friends that had left in the third period before we had even tied the game so when I told im that we tied it, went into overtime, and won he was shocked and angry that he left early. To make it even worse, he was sitting against the glass in the corner that the hockey team jumped into after the game. It was probably the best hockey game that I had ever watched. I went to the game on Saturday too but it was not as exciting. It was looking like it would be because once again we were tied at 3 in the third period and went into overtime but we ended up tying so it was a little bit of a let down. Both games were fun and I feel bad for everyone that left early on Friday night.