27 Jan 2011

Today was the first day of the east zone badminton tournament. Even though my school, Victoria School, was not going to play any matches today, we still had to leave my class at 1.05pm to set up the courts. Four schools in our group came to our school for their east zone matches. The four schools were Broadrick Secondary, East Spring Secondary, Greenview Secondary and St. Hildas Secondary. We would have to win three out of the four schools to be able to advance to the second round.

Next Monday, our school would be playing with Broadrick Secondary so we went to observe their match with Greenview Secondary. Their standard was not bad but I have confidence that our school would be able to beat them since we were training very hard from last year. Today, Greenview won Broadrick but I did not watch the other match as I was too engrossed in the Broadrick versus Greenview match. However, I heard from some of my other friends that the other two schools would be no problem to defeat too. Our strongest opponents would be Greenview so we observed their play today and  I gauged that winning them would not be too difficult.

This year I have confidence that our C division group would be able to meet up to our principal's expectations to emerge as the top four positions in the east zone. We have trained so hard last year and I know that this year our efforts would be rewarded. Today, I also learnt a lot about the skills of other schools and it is great too because it is a good experience to witness a competition up close.