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JUGGLING

SOPHIE

50 ater, we got our first juggling lesson from Cody. I thought he was
La really good teacher, because he started out very simply, with just
one thing to toss in the air. We were practicing with packets of pretzels.

51 “This is stupid,” Brian said.
52 Uncle Mo was on watch, but he turned around to mutter,
“Juggling. Geez.”

53 Then Cody had us toss two pretzel packets in the air, one from
each hand. That was easy, too. But when we added the third pretzel
packet, we were all fumbling and clumsy. Pretzels went zinging over
the side of the boat.

54 “It’s all in the motion of your hands,” Cody said. “Just get in
a rhythm.”

55 “This is really stupid,” Brian said.

56 “It might help your coordination,” Cody said.
57 “What’s wrong with my coordination?”
58 It got ugly after that, so we stopped the juggling lesson.

59 Brian and Uncle Dock are going over the charts and trying to catch
the weather forecast on the radio. Tomorrow we leave for Nova Scotia,
a straight ocean sail that should take three or four days, with no sight
of land. No land! I can’t imagine it; I can’t think what it will be
like to see nothing but ocean, ocean all around.

60 “This will be our first big shakedown, yep,” Uncle Dock said.

coordination If you have good coordination, you are able to move smoothly
and efficiently.

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