Why Ice Skating Is Important To Me

The most important non-academic activity in my life has been ice-skating. I began taking lessons in elementary school, and I will never forget coming home after my first class and putting bags of frozen vegetables on my bruised knees. I spent many hours at the rink every week practicing, and eventually completed all of the levels of lessons just before entering high school. Through the years, skating taught me that I am capable of doing whatever I set my mind to, and showed me that mastering something does not come easy, but that it is the result of hard work and determination. I continue to enjoy ice-skating in my free time, and while I may have forgotten the spins and jumps I used to do, I still have not lost the invincible feeling of gliding