it, it won’t happen. Secondly, it has taught me that even if you lost, keep your chin high. Keeping your chin high shows people you’re not afraid that you’ve lost, you’re not afraid to let people know that you’ve lost. Last year, during soccer season, when I was a sophomore, we had this one game, against Henry Ford academy. Everyone on my team was so sure we were going to win, my coaches included. But of course, we had lost the game. The most infuriating part was when Henry Ford was flaunting
Learning from Mistakes One day that I will probably never forget is the day that I had to play Jonathan Walker. He was easily the best table tennis player in our school and he had even been offered to play on the National Junior team. I remember the match as if it was yesterday. It was the time of year when competition smelled thick in the air and everyone was excited about Inter-House Sports. I was particularly involved in Tennis and Chess but I was really excited about Table Tennis as I had
One of the most grueling tasks for an author can be coming up with ideas for their novel. Many of them suffer from writer’s block and take months, even years, to finish one book. While writing a novel is tasking, writing a biography is not. All you have to do is write about your own life, how hard can that be? Well, this is the case with The Garden of the Finzi-Conitini’s. Giorgio Bassani writes of his own life throughout the entirety of the novel, with themes like the death of love, with the love