20-Do sports, live a life

Hello,

This is my first post in the year 2008.

In this post, I want to talk about the sportive activities that many of friends ask me frequently.

I don’t want to compare the sportive facilities of my university here in Canada (UQAC) and the university that I educated in B.Sc. degree (IUST) in Iran because everybody knows the story. Just in short, the programs and facilities here are unbelievable. The very interesting point is that they always have programs to use the facilities and for example in Iran, in our university after parqueting the sportive saloon the rules to have access to the least facilities became stricter.

Here I have started to exercise and follow things that I followed when I was a student in Iran. After graduation and serving military, I got employed in RAJA. In those times the more I tried to continue my sportive activities, the less I succeeded. The problem was not me; the problem was the life style. I don’t have any idea to solve this problem, actually I am not responsible for this and I am very happy that I don’t have such a problem now.

We usually go swimming, football and badminton. Here we have some arrangements by our sportive department and an association so called association of international students. We have free programs EVERY WEEK.

Mostly African students play football. We have other players too and it is very amazing that I now play with them. They have different style in playing football. The thing that I am sure about it is that they don’t have stamina as good as we have and this is the thing that we see even in our national teams. Today we played football and after 1 hour they lost their performance considerably. We played 2 hours and although I had so mush pain in my chest (because of the injury that I had from the previous week’s game) I was the most active player. Except one week that I got kicked and tumbled down at the beginning of the game, I have scored goals in all the matches. This evening I scored 3-4 goals that one of them was very beautiful. We are usually 4 teams but this time we were only two.

For badminton, usually girls show more interests. I started playing badminton when I passed sport 2 course at the university in Iran and after that I joined the badminton team of the university and it was one of the best experiences that I had. The coach was Mr. Maddahi who was the coach of the national team. He was extremely professional and in that short time I learnt much from him.

Considering swimming, we go the time we’d like and it has always been wonderful. Of course I have to add that I had some injuries and tensions because I was far from these activities for a long time but I like this pain. The previous week I spent 7-8 hours in hospital because of the pain that I had in my chest. Happily it was nothing but a muscular tension as somebody hit me with his elbow.

I hope that you find solutions for continuing your sportive activities and it’s you that have to pay attention. If you don’t exercise I strongly recommend doing that. The talk of one of my teachers in guidance school will be the wrap-up of this post. He said: when you are exercising, if even you have the most painful sadness of the world, you will be free of that when you get into the game. If you are living in Iran, you should take this serious.

Thanks for reading and good luck,

Ebrahim