Tennis at Lohana Sports and Cultural Festival

Targeted Outcomes: 

1. Increased awareness of your strengths and areas for growth
2. Undertaking new challenges
3. Show perseverance and commitment

Each year, my community (Lohana community) has a cultural and sports festival in East Africa. This year, it was held in Uganda and I took part in the tennis tournament. Prior to the actual tournament, I practiced by playing tennis once a week for a month. I used to play tennis when I was younger, therefore I found that the tournamentt was a challenge as it had been quite a while since I've taken part in a tournament yet alone play tennis! Thus, this required commitment as I had to practice every week, although I was quite nervous for the tournament I knew I had to stick to this commitment and at the end of the day I knew it would be a good experience. Because I had played tennis when I was younger, I found that this allowed me to develop my strengths as well as identify weaknesses, such as serving, before the competition. The tournament took place over the course of two days, unfortunately I only played the first day as I only got up to the third round. Although I didn't make the quarter finals, I really enjoyed this experience as I have never really taken part in such an event for my community, thus I felt proud to be a part of it and it made me realise that  I should be more involved in more events like this for my community. Moreover, this  made me want to get back into tennis and  play on a more regular basis as I feel with more training I could do much better as I would be able to develop my skills and learn much more.