September 8, 2008
My summer holiday.
Ryosuke in his soccer jersey.
Hi everyone. It’s my first day back at school since the summer holidays and what a blast it was. It felt like there was more free time these holidays too and it was great. During the holidays I had a lot of experiences, mainly of excitement, depression, and hard work.
A lot of things this summer were exciting. A great feeling is when you have just finished a hard training and are getting changed ready to go out afterward. The feeling that you have done everything that you could do for that day, and that you have accomplished something cannot be beat by any other emotion. Another exciting thing for me was going to my soccer games. It was great thinking about what sort of goal I would score that day,, or how many people I would be able to dribble before I lose the ball.
However, if the game didn’t go very well, then I would be taken over by depression which would usually ruin the rest of my day. When we played against Keisei high school, the first half went really well and we were winning 1-0. In the second half everyone became tired and nobody could move anymore. We ended up losing 1-7 and the coach got really angry. I don’t think I have ever seen him that angry before! After two halves of forty minutes my team had to do fifty 100-meter sprints. When I got home that night I fell asleep right away and didn’t wake up till 10 in the next morning.
Most of the things during summer was hard work and although I was expecting things to be difficult, I wasn’t expecting things to be that hard. Running around for three hours under the hot scorching 38 degree sun was very tiring especially since I did it almost every day.
In the end everything turned out great and was worth the hard work, and although there were many ups and downs, I enjoyed these holidays more than any before. I can't wait until the next holidays!
-Ryosuke