Joining a circle

I am part of the VWU tennis team and I really wanted to keep practicing while being abroad. But getting to a new University is hard and I did not know how it worked here. I heard it was too late to join the University team, but they have circles, as they call it, that I could enter.

I, therefore, started to ask everyone in my classes if they knew somebody that played tennis. Some would say yes and they will text me when the person agree on me joining and they would never come back to me. So after a few weeks I finally was able to have contact with a player and joined my first practice.

I really enjoy the circle because we have daily practice time, but we can show up whenever we want. Meaning if I have class or a tone of work to do, I can skip it and come another day. There is no pressure.

Plus it is a huge group of 30 people, most of them don’t speak English at all, so it really feels like I am learning Japanese culture. Also some of them are better than me and I live the challenge to have to beat them.

Can’t be more happy than finding a good group to play tennis with.