Writing Expedition - My Sporting Activities

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I grew up to be a lover of sports. I love exercising myself. This made me to become a great lover of sports. I would always not want to miss watching sports both on television and physically. One of the exciting things about December is that it gives me the opportunity to go out and watch football. They always organize a football competition in my area and i must ensure i go out and watch.

I always engage in sports activities in my school. This include relay race and football games. I also involve in indoor games.

I played throughout my primary school till my secondary school. I sustained an injury one day during sports and after the healing, it resulted in dislocation. It affected me so much that i could not walk. After receiving treatment from my mother, i got well. I resumed my sports and it happened again. I noticed that when ever i run, i must have dislocation because of the incident.

This made me loose interest in sports. I couldn't engage in it anymore. I was scared of passing through that pain over and over again.
I only became a spectator who only watched and cheer others up.

I stayed without doing sports for a period of time and this made me loose interest on sports completely. I only derive joy watching others but i won't think of participating in it.

Finally, i got admitted into higher institution where i joined Scripture Union Campus Fellowship (SUCF). In my third year, the fellowship had a plan of engaging in sports. At first, i was happy but remembering what i always pass through after sports made me to get afraid.

That day i got dressed for sports with the mindset of not participating in any sporting activity. I got there and i was motivated to join others. I summoned up courage and took part in the sports.

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This is a picture taken on the SUCF week of sports. It is a picture between Uduak, my friend and i. It was the first sport we ever had and we were excited about it. We couldn't wait for the day to come. We got prepared for it.
It was the day and we all left as early as 6 am for the morning drill. The morning drill lasted for about one hour before we had other exercises. It was to strengthen our bones and get us prepared for the sports.

After the preparatory exercise, we had our sports proper. Many activities were carried out. This include football, relay race, 100-400 meter race. etc.

I took part in almost all the activities. It was very interesting.

We were divided into groups in our relay race and football competition. We had three groups and each of the groups had a leader. In my group, i represented in relay race and 100 meter race. I was so happy that my group did so well.

We won though we took the second position generally. I was very happy that i have been able to exercise myself after a long period of time.

At the end, we sat together to discuss the things we have done that day. We draft out lessons from it and we were glad that we did not just engage ourselves in sports activities, but we got out lessons from it.

After, we had our breakfast together. It was nice sharing and eating together with brethren. After this, we left to our various destinations.

Exercise and sports is very nice. It strengthens the bones and muscles thereby keeping one fit, strong and healthy.

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