Molly’s Sign Up Dilemma

Hi! It’s me, Molly. There is a signup sheet in the hall for this year’s teams and clubs. But I can’t decide which ones I want to join. I want to do as much as possible to earn points for our School House, the Quackers. But my dad said that if I join too many teams, I won’t have time for anything else.

I talked to my Phys-ed teacher to see what he thought I should try out for. He said that volleyball, swimming and basketball were my strongest sports, so that sort of narrows it down. I wonder what my friends are signing up for. Maybe I should check out the sign-up sheets and see who I know on each sheet before I sign up.

Well, it looks like Cowabelle, Laurabeard and Polly are trying out for Volleyball. It would be fun to be on the same team as them – plus Cowabelle is in the same School House as me. Stoogles, Roberta and Nibbles are all on the Yearbook Committee. That would be pretty neat to be a part of too. Stoogles and Alex have signed up for Chess Club, and Sparky, Booger and Nibbles are going out for the Swim Team. I was thinking of trying out for the Spirit Squad, but Purr-cilla, Janice and Penelope have all signed up for that. I’m not really sure I want to be on the same squad as them – they’d probably suck all the fun out of it.

I guess maybe I should figure out how many teams I want to join first. And from the signup sheet I can see that some of the teams meet on the same days so I won’t be able to sign up for ones with conflicting schedules. I guess that narrows it down a bit too.

So what do you think would be a good number of teams to join? What would you do if you were me?