No Pain, No Gain

As mentioned in my plan, I will go to Fitness Club every Wednesday, and it’s been going great, eventhough sometimes, after that, my whole body just went sore. Sometimes, it would be very hard for me to get up from bed because of the soreness. Eventhough my whole body gets sore sometimes, I still love doing it, because I want to achieve my goal of getting fit and after that, stay fit.

In the Fitness Club right now, we have been doing punching and kicking with the guide of a video of course. And probably the next session, we want to try something harder, because we have been doing the same for several weeks. And we definitely want to challenge ourselves with a new one.

What I have achieved by trying to get fit is I’ve shown perseverance and commitment, as I have been going there every week, but sometimes, I can’t go because of my stomach which the only problem that is in the way right now.

Ready? Action!

 Since October, I have been going to Sports Club after school every Monday. This is because I just really want to do any kind of sports that I think I can do. And since, I started, we have always been playing hockey, and the number of students that come sometimes vary. Eventhough I haven’t played hockey for a long time, on the first day of me playing hockey again, I scored 4 times. I felt proud, but at the same time, it was only because of luck, because really, I was the only girl there and I was the worst one ever at the time. Also, at the same time, the other group probably thought that I don’t have the skills, so they were not really defending me and probably they didn’t think of me as an opponent at the time. Well, they thought wrong!

However, lately, I haven’t been going there anymore because I have the problem again with my stomach, the doctor said that something was wrong with my stomach. And they advised me not to do tough sports such as football and other sports with opponents and lots of running and pushing. But now, I’m feeling better and I really want to go there because it’s really fun playing with the students and teachers. However, I also have skills that need to be improved and the to do thing and to not do thing while playing hockey that I need to learn. I definitely need to improve my passing skills, and my skill at scoring a goal with a better skill. A to do thing during hockey that I need to learn is being able to not lose the ball while trying to pass the opponents, trying not to lose it to the opponent that is trying to attack and take the ball. Obviously, the not-to-do thing that I need to learn, is NOT TO KICK THE BALL!

By going to Sports Club, I definitely have worked collaboratively with others, passing the ball and played as a team, and when we had more people, everybody agreed on substitutions. I have also increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth, where I definitely need to learn more on passing and not to kick the ball with my foot and also need to learn how to control the ball, eventhough I sometimes score, but that doesn't me I'm good at it. 

Cross-Stitch-ing

In my plan, I wrote that I would do cross-stitching as part of my creativity. Trust me, it has been a great pleasure doing it. I can do it anytime, anywhere except for certain places. Whenever I’m not doing anything at home, or when I follow my dad to the embassy, I would take all the cross-stitching stuff with me because it’s part of my life right now and I just love doing it.

Cross-stitching is something that I wouldn’t have thought of doing for my creativity. But thanks to my sister, she told me start during summer and continue doing it whenever I have free time, and basically during summer, whenever I’m at home, I would just sit in the living room with everybody watching television, and I would just stay quiet and do my cross-stitch. My siblings would just call me a loner, because I don’t talk to them. But here are the results that I got for being quiet. At least, I had a productive summer! 

To make these, as a beginner, we can buy a packet which can cost 90 to 120 roubles. And then, in the packet, they give you the thread, needle, and the instruction on how to it. Now I know what half-cross stitch is when I had no idea what does it mean before. And then, after doing it for some time, I saw my sister doing it just by looking at, for example, a butterfly picture on the internet, and then zoom in the picture and you can see that it shows the small boxes where you can also so cross-stitch. This is to make it cheaper. Which obviously I tried.

By doing this, I have developed new skills, I thought if I just look at the picture, it would be hard, but actually it's the same, and it's cheaper, I just need to buy the thread. 

And below, is my favourite one out of all my collections.