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18.01.2008
Continuing on with sports
"It's so easy to be said to be "good" here in Canada. No matter how you do, they will always say: "Good job!"."
This two sentences appeared in the previous post and I feel like they need furher explanation
Basically, they are truth for all the sports I've tried so far in Canada. Let me tell you an example. We had a track meet in December and I was also doing long jump. There were other six guys jumping with me and they looked like profis. As I later found out they were much better than I. In fact, anybody who I've met there and looked like profi actually raced like profi. This is a lot different compared to the Czech republic – several people looked like profis at the track meets there, but it isn't hard to beat them. In this long jump you can't imagine how much did I get beaten – they overjumped me by nearly two metres. However, something funny happened afterwards. It turned out that they were different age category. Thus I won my age category since I was the only one there. The first out of one (or maybe the last one). I did horrible, but still won and they even anounced it on the radio at school. This can happen only in Canada. They usually have so many different age categories that almost everyone can get a fairly good place.
It's also interesting that all the girls wear make-up for the competitions. In fact, they wear it all the time. I still can't understand how they avoid melting it. Actually there is lot more to write about the people here, so the Canadians will be the theme of my next post.
We've been to a boxing club with the Physical Education today. Although we didn't fight with each other, it was really interesting – one of the hardest workouts I've ever had. The place has much friendlier atmosphare than the YMCA. I have a feeling that to the Y go people who want to be good-looking. Therefore, they spend lots of time weight lifting and watching themselves in the mirror. Well, they have muscles, but they don't look as though they can use them. It's more like jewelery than an useful tool. On the other hand, in the boxing club we've really trained – we were all almost dead after the practice. I'm thinking about geting a membership there after the cross-country skiing season finishes. It might be interesting. I was doing karate-do for half a year and enjoyed it a lot, but then I quit it because I couldn't kick higher than the waist level – my leg flexibility is bad. However, this would be no problem in boxing :)
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(Honza - Mail - WWW)
"I won my age category" - congratulations are in place then. Maybe you'll be as good in boxing.
(Ted - Mail - WWW)
Honza: You're funny, man :)
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