My enjoyable Ping Pong Story - Hyojeong KIM

I really like to exercise something. When I was elementary school student, I learned how to swim first. Swim is one of my favorite hobbies. Like swim,there are many activities in the world. Exercising has many advantages. Exercise gives people make good body and good mind. Whenever I exercise, I feel I am living. In addition, I could meet good people by exercising ping pong.

At the time I entered to university in Korea, I want to do something new for my life. So, I think about what I want to do. My father also likes to exercise and I absolutely was influenced by my father. One day he told me that he really enjoyed playing ping-pong. After I heard my father’s saying, I was deeply interested to playing ping-pong called also table tennis. I decided to join that club in my university. I was pleased to choose good hobby for my enjoyable life. As soon as I went there, I was suggested by one of member to come to club event that will go to gather same place to play together. I agreed to go there because I didn’t know anyone who lived in that city where my university is located. I did not know friends in that city.

After I went to event, I met many friendly club member and they were very kind to me. I ate meals with them and talked a lot; therefore, I heard ping pong story and people’s life. As I was freshman at that time, seniors treated me very kindly and friendly. The event took place on mountain and I often climbed mountain with several club members. I could not forget that memorable event. After the event, I started to learn ping pong. I tried to practice hard. However, I didn’t know how to play. And, I wondered I was doing good. First time, I was not good at playing game. I just practiced how to play ping pong. After hard practice, I could go to match with other club’s member. When I went to match another university player, I totally lost the game. Therefore, I thought my skill was not good and would practice hard myself.

One day, there was big match game among all university’s ping pong club. I went to there and won several games. I went to 8th matching game. I was happy to win the game with other players. I learned that If I practiced hard, I could do whatever I want. After going back to Korea, I will go to match big city game probably. I am not sure I can win the game because I did not practice at all after I came to USA. However, I sometimes played ping pong when I went to recreation center in UCR. I won’t forget to play ping pong because now it is easy to play for me and I really like it.