York Mills CI

Today was the day of the big game against York Mills CI. We had to take the TTC and the bus to get to the school. What a sad thing, I mean the school couldn't afford to get us a school bus. I guess because we had so little people, there was no point in taking the school bus. As we walked out of our school(EH) we saw school buses parked on the driveway and I got all excited thinking it was a surprise. Unfortunately, it was for the middle schoolers who were visiting the high schools to get an idea of what their 4 years in high school would be like. *Sigh* I wish I was back to gr 8, those years were so easy and relaxing. As we got to York Mills and entered the change rooms, I was amazed and surprised at how old and rusty the building was. The washrooms were so small and I was surprised people actually used the showers. I was trembling in fear as I walked on the court to warm-up with gigantic goggles to protect both my eyes and my glasses. As I got called up to play Singles A, I knew that doom would come because the player I was playing, was the guy who I have never been able to beat ever since I had first started playing badminton which was 3 years ago. Although he was one year older than me, we had the same training sessions until my parents forced me to quit training. He had continued training and I had retired from badminton. As we started the game, I noticed that the fan was on and when I hit the bird up, it would speed up because of the wind of the fan. Unfortunately, I tried really hard to play well but it just wasn't a good day and I lost 21-10 and 21-8. Although these scores look really bad, considering that I have not trained for over a year while my enemy(the player from York Mills) had continued to train and improve, I think I did kind of well to have gotten these points.

I really enjoy badminton and I definitely want to get better but I think I had started a little late and this was the problem why I was never able to beat people because I didn't have enough experience.