blog #7: My first summer vacation of my college life

Hi I'm Kotaro Yajima. I'm talking about my summer vacation. To be honest, I did almost nothing but water skiing.　Since I belong to the water ski team, I had practices every day. There are 4 college students' competitions in a year, and the biggest one named inter college competition is held in September in Akita.

A week before the competition, I was chosen as a jump player. Since one senior jump player was injured on his legs so he quite to play. Then I had to practice a lot. Because of I am a freshman, I had no skills of this sport. Thanks to practices, my jump became better and better, many people said that I am a genius. The day of my jump came. My turn was 5th, I was super nervous from early morning. Players can jump 3 times, and the longest distance of 3 jumps becomes his record. If he miss 3 times, there is no record left. All or nothing, that's water ski.  I failed 2 times and there was no way out. Then I heard all team members sing songs to cheer on me. I thought I had to make my jump success. Finally my jump succeeded, the record was 24.1m which is 19th out of 32 players. Anybody gave me a hug when I came back to a Gakushuin's team tent. Since it's the biggest competition, also the last competition for all seniors, I was happy and proud of being a player of men's jump team. This day became a most unforgettable day. Thank you.  

I don't have a video when I jumped in the competition, but I have my practice one. I'll upload a video. I want you to know this is what I do.