Saturday, February 7, 2009

My first club during my whole schooling time



Before I attended the GCA, I never join in the club both in the school and not in the school. There were some reasons. First, my introversive characteristics make me hard to communicate and mix with other people. As I was measured in a personality test, I am an extremely introversive person. (I “was” an extroversive person when I had another test in the primary school.) Second, I had almost no hobbies or interests. Third, I thought I was not good at almost anything. Then, finally, the most important one is that no one asked me to join the club – I am not active enough to look for clubs. These reasons made me not a member of any clubs during the primary and junior high school. (Oh, there is no club in “my” primary school.) To overcome this situation, I tried joining at least one club in my high school.
It was helpful for me to join the club in GCA. When the first term started, all of clubs in GCA announced the information of clubs and to raise new members. Because many clubs tried making new Grade 10 students (including me) join them, I, an introversive student, also could join the club easily.
Finally, I attended the soccer club. Soccer is almost the only one sport I like. (Hurrah for Korean team in the Olympic!)
There are trainings on every Thursday after school and every Sunday. It takes a lot of time of me. I glad to join in the training in the common time, but when the amount of homework is large or there will be a test in the school, it also makes me feel worried.
I am a goalkeeper in our team, but just a substitute player. We had trainings twice every week. However, in fact, we did not study many things. There is no systemic training and activity. It may is the difference between the club activity and the P.E class.
Our club need remain the good relationship with others. Sometimes our club activity should use the whole playground and it will be damage to others. If our relationship is not good, then no one will make the concession for us. Then, of course, because the soccer club is a kind of sports club, members should have enough endurance and enough strength. I did not have these lots, so I was worried about it, but also wanted to improve my physical ability by taking part in the soccer club. I think it was successful. After the 3 terms of the club activities, I felt I am stronger than before. (But I am still not strong enough.)
When I become a student of Grade 11, Mark, the main goalkeeper of our club team, will leave us. Then I will become the main. I am afraid of it. My ability is not high enough to take the main role of the team. I hope I can make the ability to be a more skillful goalkeeper. If not, our club will lose our honour.

Friday, February 6, 2009

First Bowling Experience



In fact, I am not very good at sports, and also I do not like sports very much. My favorite one and also only one I like was soccer. However, in my Grade 10, I learned a new kind of game of ball which I had never touched – bowling.
It was my first time to play bowling. Our family found the advertisement of the bowling alley near the home by chance, and decided to try playing once. Then, just as our family usually did, we started to play every day.
Maybe as you know, the way to play bowling is very easy: to throw the bowling ball, and knock bowling pins down. The more pins you knock down, the more points you will get. If you knock 10 pins in one time or in two times, you will get some more points. To knock 10 pins in one time is called strike, and to knock them in two times is called spare.
Because there were no teachers, our family should study on our own. Fortunately, my parents played bawling before, so they could teach me and my sister and my brother. Also, there were many players with high ability. I could imitate their actions to improve my skill. I found there were some differences between my family members’ actions and the superior players’ actions. Superiors gave the spin to the bowling ball while we just threw the ball straight. If we gave the spin to the bowling ball, the route of the ball would get bent. However, the way of the higher-lank player’s ball never gets bent. I have tried it many times, but always failed. I want to know how they can do that.
It is very tired of my hand to play the bowling. Because the ball I used was quite heavy – 13 pounds (about 5.9 kg), the action of throwing the ball is a load for my right hand. In fact, some of my fingers on the right hands hurt little at first. However, after my family and I had thrown the ball again and again, fingers became suitable to play bowling – they became harder than them before.
In the picture above the article, there are two pictures of score which I gained. They are both not my highest points. My highest mark is 159 points. It is the second highest (may be the first) mark in my family, but there are so many people could get over 200 points. (Why did I use “200 points”? The reason is that “200 points” is the mark of high game in the bowling rule.)
Bowling helps people get balance between two directions. It is good for our bodies. Also, it is one kind of sport which requires both strength and subtlety. If you only have strength, your ball will crush into the hole, but you should have strength to support your subtlety. Bowling is able to teach people how to get balance between two different characteristics.
p.s. Here is a video of me playing bowling. As you see, my skill is not very good.