Tennis...AAAHHH!

I just got back from a horrifying tennis lesson. My coach was old and did not know my name. He kept calling my sister and I the same thing. He would just call, "Ellis, Ellis, you're not shadowing!" (what is shadowing?!) and I was hitting the tennis balls. He was talking to June. It turns out that shadowing is imitating the person actually playing. He taught us the wrong ready position, and he never explained anything. He did not even tell us his name. He kept telling me, "slower, slower," and he never explained to me what "slower" meant.

On top of that, he tried to help us hit more balls into the court by turning things into competitions. "If you hit two or less balls into the court you have to pick up five tennis balls. Ooooh, what a punishment...........not! Wanna know another silly punishment of his: "do one push-up if you stop shadowing!" One push-up? Really? I wonder how good I would feel if I did nothing that I was supposed at one of these lessons!