Sports

Hello everybody!!

Today’s assignment, we have to choose between arts or sports. I consider myself somebody who enjoys arts. But I think I’ll talk about something that I do more often, which is Basketball, my favorite and loved sport.

Basketball is a team-sport, were two teams whit 5 persons, tries to score on each other basket. This sport is nearly new; it was invented by James Naismith, who was a sport’s teacher in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, and the first game was played on December, 1891.

I really don’t know so much about prominent exponents from this sport. I only know the famous one, like Shaquille O’Neal or Michael Jordan. But I’m not so interested on big basketball players. I just enjoy playing it.

Why I like it? Because it’s the best sport on the entire world! I like it because is a team sport. Here, you’re not just playing for you; you’re playing for your team, for those who are on the field, and those who’re on the bench, and look the game with enthusiasm.

I like it because when you’re playing, and running with the ball, you can’t heard anything, but at the same time, you heard your coach yelling you what to do, and you heard your team also yelling you what to do. And I love it because when you throw the ball trying to make a score, the time stops, and all the eyes are looking if the ball pass into the basket. And when it happens, you get excited, and you have to continue playing, now defense! And when it not happens, you have to run, trying to catch the ball and throw it again!

I have the lucky, that when I enter to this Faculty, somebody invite me to join the faculty basketball team. These days, we’re playing the JOE (juegos olímpicos estudiantiles), and we’re in semi-finals, this Monday. And if we win, we’ll play the final, next Tuesday. We also play the TIF (torneo inter facultades), and the “Copa Andina”, which we already won last year.  I think we’re having a very good season, and I hope we win next Monday. Wish us luck!