PHYSICAL ACTIVITY (10hours due by Feb.8)

I attended the badminton club of GCA when the term was begin, I have got 46 hours activity time this term for my physical activity, I had special experiences in this club I think, and the supervisor is Leo Qin and Mr. Harris.

We have two places to practice and enjoy our badminton club time, first is the Nanjing Normal University, we played there every Saturday afternoon from about 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. the payment of the club is 20yuan. The other place for us to practice is the Nanjing Foreign Language School’s gym, which is free for us at each Wednesday’s night from 7 p.m. to half past eight.

Badminton is my favorite sports, I love it since I was a little boy, and I practice a lot when I was young. I can play both the single badminton play and the double badminton play. Tim is my classmates, and he is also a badminton club member, he can play the badminton very well too. I often practice with him, although I can play better than him, but he never give up for each goal, and he often to be the partner with me to play the double badminton play. We like to help each other to improve our skill in many ways. Our proprietor is Leo Qin, he also can play the badminton very well, and he often helps each of us to be better than before. I was chose to a member of GCA badminton team and joined a match at Nanjing International School. I attended the double play with Abby, she is my classmate, and my best friend, also she can not play it very well, and often made some mistakes that I thought very stupid, this caused we lost lots of points, but she never give up to be a good player, when our final match began we lost all the match before it, so she ran out of the gym and cried for a long time because of her guilt. I was sorry to her too, and I ran around the school to find her, finally I sad to her “I do not care of the result, you are my teammate, you are my friend, compare with my own win, I would rather fail with you, just try your best!” she showed me a smile, and finally we had won the only match that night.

At 14th of December our club held a match that every GCA students can take part in it, I joined it too, and got the gold medal at the end of the match, I was so happy that day, I had never thought that I can achieve the NO.1.

Today I still practice a lot to be better and better, I have learned a lot from the activity. Never give up although you can not do the things very well at the beginning. Practice more to be successful. Never blame your partner, they want to win too, they need encouragement.

This activity also helps me to keep health, after training, I have found I get stronger and stronger than before, I have not got sick for about 1 year. A healthy body is also a necessary condition of our university life in the future. On the other hand, if I have a good badminton skill in my life, its also good for our healthy life.

The activity match can test my result of training, it also a stage for us to communicate with each countries’ students and make more friends not only in China, but also in too many foreign countries. It is important for our job in the future.

I love badminton; I love our Badminton Club; I love the members in our team; I will continue to do this physical activity next year!