Basketball

Today, someone asked me why I like basketball. I thought about it, then said, "Because I grew up around it." Normally, children in Taiwan grow up around baseball, because it is one of the few sports we are actually good at. But for me, it was basketball. My dad plays for a small team in a sector of the company he works for. He used to be captain of the team, and encouraged me to play with basketballs. In our house, there is always at least 3 spare basketballs sitting around, and since a small age, I've been rolling them around (I have a video of me as a toddler trying to play basketball). And every saturday and/or sunday morning, we would watch a NBA game. Sometimes, we would go to a basketball court and shoot some hoops. But when we moved to Europe, we stopped playing. I don't know why, but I think its because my dad was really busy in Europe, so we didn't have time to play basketball. Plus, we had satellite TV, so there weren't any basketball games to watch, but we'd always follow the scores closely. Besides my dad and my brother, a lot of my cousins play basketball, too. I remember we used to go to a park and just play basketball while the adults stood around talking about politics.Now that I'm back from Europe, I decided to take up basketball again. But after two years of no practise whatsoever, I've actually gotten pretty bad at it. But I really want to actually be good at it again. Also, I can't wait for this year's basketball season to start.