I Believe Speech Delivery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4QuL2Oym64&ab_channel=SooyoungChoi



To be honest, I think this "I Believe" project was really helpful to look back at on my life to think of interesting topic that I want to share. At first place, I had totally different topic in my mind but I changed to story with T.J Warren at last. Basically the biggest struggle through this project was that I needed to write whole new speech in a week. I was very familiar with the topic and what I am going to write about but it is always hard to put everything into words, especially for me, not native English speaker. However I think I did fine in overall, putting the main massage of my speech well, staying humble and work hard for the others. I think I did quite solid job on delivering the massage.

The first thing I struggled most about the writing the speech was coming out with the better method of spreading my massage. My speech had one story and the main massage and theme of the whole speech comes out from that story. It was the matter of how I am going to word his massage and the method of strengthen his massage. So I came up with an idea of putting my own reflection of the massage. It was not that hard to put in because his massage actually effected a lot on my life therefore I was able to express my opinion on his massage pretty well. It is kinda true that I came out with different style of appreciation of life than T.J Warren but I thought the overall massage is same. Therefore I putted my reflection of his massage and I think that strengthen the power of his massage pretty well, which making the whole speech to be much stronger.

The second thing I spent lots of time on it was how I am going to have good ending. This speech is talking about one of the most effective massage in my life, which changed view point of my life. I brainstormed how I am going to put it and came up with a thought that T.J Warren would not remember me. I was just a kid from his old school who was interested in listening some life stories of him. I think it was very reasonable to think that he will not remember meeting me. Throughout that thought I came out with a ending that imagining he will not but if I have a chance to meet him in person I will be thanking him for teaching me that great lesson I will never forget in my life. That ends up my essay with huge ending which helped me to leave last strong impression of my whole essay.

This "I Believe" speech helped me to have lots of thinkings of my life, thinking back about my past and some massages I want to deliver to others. I think I've lived quite unique life, which gives me lots of ideas about what I want to talk about. I am really satisfied about what I talked about and hope my speech can help some of others to look into their life in different way.

Final Project: I believe Speech.

Everyone has lucky moment to meet someone unexpected and get impressed by him or her. Mine was very special and he taught me great lessons. I want to talk about that.

When I was junior in old school, Brewster Academy, I was in second varsity basketball team. We had practice on Saturday morning so I went to dinning hall to get something to eat before practice. At there I saw tall African-American guy talking to someone and I've never seen neither of them. I somehow came up with guess that tall guy might be basketball player so I searched few alumni from our school and found out that guy was T.J Warren. T.J Warren, starting small forward for Phenix Suns, who graduated Brewster in 2012. He was one of the most famous basketball alumni from our school. His jersey was hanging on the wall of athletic building. I went to talk to him because I was so surprised to see him. I asked him if he is actual T.J Warren and he said yes.

After I had little chat with T.J Warren, I went to gym for the practice. During our practice, T.J Warren showed up to gym to look his jersey on the wall. We all saw him and everyone was excited to see him. We all went to talk to him and he recognised me. He volunteered to teach us some basketball skills and it was really helpful. The fact active NBA player teaching us some skills were incredible and everyone was working hard to learn as much as we can.

After that session, fortunately I sat down with him in lunch table. He was first NBA player I've ever seen so I had so many questions to him. I asked him how he motivate himself in daily basis and his response inspired me so much. He said "When I wake up in the morning, I thank god that I came this far. I was just normal kid and now I am living my dream life. I stay humble that not many people even made this far. I motivate myself that so many people sacrificed their dreams and life to help me to get here. I play for them and achieve their dream for them. I still have so many dreams to achieve so I cannot stop." That was not a something I never thought about.

Staying humble and fighting to accomplish others' goal who sacrificed their dreams and life for you. I never done anything like that. I always lived selfish life, doing what I want to do. However I did not put my effort in to achieve others' goal. My parents and whole family have their own wishes and expectations on me and I never fulfilled their dreams on me.

What T.J Warren said woke my spirit up and motivated me that I should thank people who cares and loves me and pay them back with my best effort and result. I picked up his words and made it to mine.

Every morning I thank god to give me this lucky life. After that I do my work with my best effort. I try to put my best effort on everything but that is really hard to me so I focus on putting enough effort I would not regret about it in the future.

I do not think T.J Warren still remembers me because it had been about a year ago when he met me. However if I have chance to meet him again in the future, I want to thank him for teaching me great life lesson.

Final Projection Reflection

how is your final project coming along? Where are you with it, what are you doing well, what do you need to do to improve? 300 words

My final project's topic is "A Day With TJ Warren". TJ Warren is NBA player who graduated my old school, Brewster Academy. My story goes along through the morning to evening. It talks about TJ Warren's personal and his advices to me. I already have structured outline about what I will write and what kinds of massages I will include. To be honest I recently changed my topic therefore I need to start writing new speech so I have not started to writing it yet. However I will be fine with writing it because I already have perfect outline about what I am going to write. 

I think I am doing well about organising what massages will be included and planning how the speech will come out. I have very unique story that average asian kid would not easily experience also TJ Warren is not that much popular player in NBA therefore not many people recognised him.  Even at that situation I was the first one who recognise him and because of that I stood out to him. That helped me to have very special time with him and his different attitude and words on me. TJ Warren was very humble and kind person who was giving me lots of advices about basketball and life specially about how should I prepare myself to put my best effort on something I want to success and what kind of attitude I should have toward my eagerness. 

I need to start writing the speech, that is something I need to improve on. I only have outline on what I am going to write but in the actual speech, my limitation on English might be struggle that I will face. However that is something I have been living with therefore I always have been willing to improve it. I am more than welcome to face that challenge to improve my English. It will help my essay in overall. 

I belive reflection

I read two speeches, one by Baran and one by Ben Buchmeier. They had different topics and I found Baran's speech more interesting because he talked about how much strrugles he went through when he first moved to United States. It was a topic that I have full understanding on so I was definitely able to put myslef into it and share the emotion and ideas of it. I think it was really good that his sentences were very clear and easily worded. He usedeasy terms and short sentences to provide much clear explanation of his experience. In both essays, by Baran and Ben, they both had short funny stories to strongly emphasize their theme of the essay. Ithink I can try to adapt that skills to use in my essay

The on thing I did not likefrom both essays were that their massages were not that strong. Baran's one was story and Ben's one was thanking Cheshire Academy.If they had clear massage on what they actuall believe through their experience, their essays will be much stronger.

I Believe Proposal

To be honest I have belief in lots of things, such as my family, parents, myself, failure, challenge or even soccer. So it is very hard to choose one thing I can deliver speech about what I believe. I looked in self of me and found out I have huge belief on myself. It is not about my background or how I grew up as child, it's about how I can make changes in my life or bigger scale. I always wanted be someone who is powerful and really effective on society or anywhere. Sports stars can be one, they influence lots of young kids, motivate them to be as them. If you ask any rookies in professional about their influence or motivation on their sports, I think most of them will name you glorious players who passed through that league. Politicians, businessmen, coaches and elders can be person like that too. However I want to be someone like them but in my own way.

When I was really young, I was inspired from Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor. I had big interest in history and I always had my interest on Roman, even I am not Italian. He was really responsible and ambitious man. He was on charge of army and his soldiers were willing to die for him. They all followed him when he was making the coup. That is incredible, that inspiring group of people who will fight for you and always stand for you.  I wanted to be like him, responsible and ambitious guy. That was my first lesson I took. how to be responsible like him. I tried to become a leader like him. He was one of the greatest leader of all-time. I tried to be like him but I was not fully powerful as him at first. As time passes through I started learning how to inspire people with words and action. That is me, who always trying to pick up greatest from others to create my own great.

How to Speech Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhzxXt7MtdE&ab_channel=SooyoungChoi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhAk-7aH4s&ab_channel=SooyoungChoi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZP2H2U9iA0&ab_channel=SooyoungChoi

Speech video

How to Speech Script

Today, I am here to teach how to trap soccer ball in the air with feet. In soccer there are lots of situations you need to trap ball in the air. The best result of trapping is the ball should land where you can reach it by one step. There are two most common ways to trap the ball in the air with feet. You need to trap the ball with different method depends on how high and fast ball is and how much pressure are you under.

The first way is the basic one. When you see the ball in the air, position yourself where that ball will drop. Place your feet where the ball will drop. The ball should make contact around the toe. This is the quickest trap to make move after if you trap it perfectly. This is the most effective trap under the pressure, because if you successfully make this trap you can take another touch right after. You can trap high ball with this but not the fast ball. Most of players use this trapping to receive short lob or chip pass.

The second way is harder. You position yourself where ball will drop and raise your leg when the ball is dropping. When you contact the ball, drag your leg down. This is better at higher balls. When you pull your leg down, it takes lots of speed from ball, provide soft touch on the ball. This is effective when you are not under pressure.

These are two most common ways to trap ball in the air. These trappings are the most basic skill during soccer so they have lots of usages. Practice it and make it to your skill. Thank you.

Teach How to Speech

How to trap a soccer ball in the air

Tree types of trapping the ball.
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQbqCjGceXs&ab_channel=OnlineSoccerAcademy


Trapping with Chest
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lExstvqB9M&ab_channel=expertvillage

Get to the spot ball is dropping-Lean back-Line up chest with ball- Trap ball with chest

Trapping with foot

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrWb7ySeVWg&ab_channel=EpicSoccerTraining

Way 1:
Get to the spot ball is dropping- Place your foot where ball will hit the ground- Take your leg back when ball hits your foot

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RisUK1_UBUQ&ab_channel=freekickerz

Way 2:
Get to the spot ball is dropping- Raise your foot and trap ball in the air- Bring your leg down and let ball fall in front of you

Trapping with thigh

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkmqvVS--qY&ab_channel=TheSoccerEssentials

Get to the spot ball is dropping- Raise your thigh vertically matching with ball- trap ball with your thigh

1 Minutes President Speech

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Ryan Choi, who served on military for 10 years and participated in government for 8 years as senate. America needs change. Our economics have been falling, people are not fully trusting each other and young  talents are drowning by loans for their educations.

To fix economy I will establish new tax law that can be beneficial to both companies and workers. The will help the money flow to unfreeze our economy.

There will be huge scale government scholarship program for students to help their financial struggles.

The government will control the guns, by registering owners and creating restrictions on it.

I will make changes for our country. I will make the difference. Vote for me

Speech Reflection

In overall, I found this speech harder than last "I Am" speech. In "I Am" speech, I knew the material perfectly, because the topic was about who I am. I could easily memorise everything and sounds like professional. However this presidential speech was harder because I do not fully know what I am planning to say. If I was actually running for president than I would have every concept in my head since start, but in this case it was hard to remember all the points that I made from my imagination. Especially, I am not citizen of United States so that made me much challenging to come up with points that I can convince people. I do not share common knowledge with Americans, so I think I spent more time on planning and researching some issues I can mention than actually writing the script. However I love taking challenges so it was enjoyable to me.

I do not think I did well on delivery of speech. First of all, English is not my first language so I do not have perfect pronunciation and fluency as other native speakers. Therefore I think I messed up some words and sentences. I repeated one sentence twice because I did not pronounce one word perfectly, I was trying to put more attention on having clear delivery than body language. The clear delivery is always huge challenge for me and I put lots of focus on it too. I will try my best to make it better.

Also I was reading the script too much and that does not look professional. In this setting of speech, I must look professional and confident. However I was reading too much, so that makes me to look not professional and not confident about my words. I did not memorised the speech well also the content of speech is not a something I am export of. Therefore I found it much harder to memorise my script on presidential speech. I was having wield body language too. I was reading script too much so one of my hand was on phone and I was kept surrounding my phone by my hands often to see the letters clearly. I think I needed to stop doing that. If I remembered the script better, this would not have happened.

I define myself as good public speaker in Korean. Obviously I have better language skill with Korean than English so I can be better public speaker in Korean much easily. I think this class helps me developing my public speaking skill in English. I never learned public speaking skills this professionally, learning all the debate devices to persuade people and keep having practices of public speaking and debates. I feel great to keep getting this professionalized help on my public speaking skill. I think I am developing my public speaking skills pretty well. I might need to participate more during class to get more help.

Presidential Speech Video

https://youtu.be/SYJXqaMFLUQ

Presidential Speech

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Ryan Choi, who served on military for 10 years and participated in government for 8 years as senate. America needs change. I think this term of time is the most important term. Our economics have been falling, people are not fully trusting each other and young  talents drowning by loans for their educations. This is not the country we always wanted to have. This country is falling down and someone should take charge and make changes to rebirth our society. The country has been not developing for more than 10 years. We are falling back. There should be rebirth of our country. I will lead that. I will take the charge of that. I will make changes.

Our economic is falling down. Companies and people are loosing their money because money is not flowing much. The economic is frozen. Companies are not making much money, that led companies to not invest or spend money. To inspire companies I will cut the taxes for companies, but not for all the companies, only to companies keep hiring people and investing money into our community. That will be beneficial to companies, economics and people. When that happens it will be benefits to small businesses too. The money will be invested from big companies and it can help small companies to start developing. It will keep making positive effects on out economic. It will be helpful to our society.

I heard a story of young man, who graduated Purdue University, and he went school by loan. His family was not wealthy enough to financially support him, therefore he did not have options. He loan the money from the bank. He just wanted to learn. However the reality stopped him and gave him struggle that he should not face as 22years old. Schools tuitions must be cheaper or scholarship program must be bigger. I will definitely work on that and find a way on it. I will create government scholarship program to support young students to study without financial concern. It will be supporting both private and public schools.

The citizens are trusting each other that much. There are gun related crimes happening everyday and people are living in fear. This must be stopped. The law should be changed and gun will be controlled. The gun owners must register to our system and they must be qualified to own guns. The purpose of gun in constitution was self-protection, but currently they are being used as weapon pointing our neighbours. This must be stopped.We cannot point each other with guns when there are terrorists coming in and trying to destroy our home. We should unite! There must be restriction to prevent gun usage.

People are not scared of our country anymore. Middle east terrorists are coming into our country and we stopped developing our economics compare to all other countries in the world. We are having dark present now. There should be spark of change to light our future off.  The bright future comes from big step from present. Currently our country need big change to face bright future. I will make those changes. I will make the difference. Vote for me.

Presidential Debate NotesT

This presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hilray Clinton was well controlled by modiater. Both candidates expressed their opinions pretty well and there were not many interruptions. They both stayed calm. Trump did not have much facts to fully strengthen his arguments and Clinton was having too much facts. Clinton was keep sayimg the word "so" and relying on her own facts too much. Trump was having too much flase assumptions and not clering or proving the facts. It is really hard to think either side dominate the debate, because both of them were doing quite badly and it wasn't impressive. They bith used lots of ad haureans and fakse fallacy alot to attack each other.

Presidential Debate 3 Notes

In 3rd presidential debate, Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump was debating, in fact they were arguing. There were lots of loaded question and ad houraun. I think both candidates were trying to attack each other more than having proper debate about their politics.

Hilary Clinton was being disrespectful to Donal Trump. She was attacking about his background more than his policies. However Donal Trump was being much respectful than Hilary, which was quite surprising.

I think the debate was mass, it was brutal to watch. Both of candidates were not being formal, too aggressive. I think why Hilary were being aggressive, because she was too scripted on first debate, it might be good idea to have totally different attitude but it was too much. She was too aggressive.

Debate Topics

Redbull. VS Monster
Should college athletes be paided/sponsored?
PS4 VS XBOX ONE

Debate Analysis

1) There were not much concession or reputation in this debate. Trump and Clinton used lots of appealto authority and ad houraun. Trump and Clinton were appealing to authority to show the audience that his or her oponion is right and they should follow it. This helped them to convince some of audience to be on their sides. President is role having lots of power in country so candidates needed to have their opinion to prove. In that process both candidates used lots of appeal to authority. Also both candidates used as houraum to attack each other. They were attacking each other with nit proved information and making points with false facts.

2)  i think Donald Trump is not a good debate speaker. On the first debate Donald Trump tend to destract Clinton and interupted alot when Clinton was speaking. The big moment was when Clinton started talking about how Trump was not paying taxes, and Trump was keep saying "wrong" and keep putting Clinton on a position of liar. That helped Trump to build up his argument when he countered Clinton about her private email. There were rumors saying that Clinton was sending emails on private server and there are possibilities that emails have classified information include. It was ckeary Clinton's blunder to point out Trump with not fact-checked information.
Donald Trump also made blunder on second debate, which was attaching Clinton with line "Then You would be in the jail". That was extremely risky line to say. That was very offensive and disrespectful to Clinton. She is also candidate of president election and Truml cannot say that kind of things. Even Clinton was attacking Trump about his background, no experience on politics and born in rich family,  that does not give him any power to say that much harshy offensive words. Trump made this blender and also made audience to laugh at him for say that. It is true that Trump dies not have any experience on politics and Clinton was pointing out why did you nit contribute ti any political situation if you felt the systm is wrong. He attacked Clinton that if his officers or he was working for government there will be change. Therefore Trump response that if his officiers were working for government then Clinton will be in the jail. That is not something candidate says to other candidate. It was very offensive and definitely blunder.

Debate Topics

1. Should abortion be legal?
2. Should school require students ti wear uniform or dress codes?
3. Which candidate will win 2016 presidential election?
4. Can college athletes be sponsored?
5. Which team will win 2016 World Series?

Logical Fallacies

loaded Question
Questions containing uncontroversial or unjustified assumption
http://study.com/academy/lesson/loaded-question-definition-examples.html

3 Elements and Argument

1. Logos->logic: facts, statistics, evidence
               Value: Hard to argue against it (truth)/ authority
                         Danger & overuse: personal connection; boring
2. Pathos->appeal to emotion
                Value: personal anecdotes, strong responses
                 Danger of overuse: lose credibility/ too much turn people off
3. Ethos-> authority, creditibility, character
                Value: believe you/unbiased
                Danger of overuse: lose focus of your argument
3elelemts-> balancer

Presidential Debate Reflection

The first presidential debate for election 2016 was very interesting to me. One big reason why I found it interesting is that I am from different part of world, different country, and trying to listen to United States' candidate's debates. However I always find politics as interesting topic so I really enjoyed watching it. In my opinion, Donal Trump won the debate. Here are two reasons.

First, Donald Trump was extremely aggressive. Compare to his opponent, Hillary Clinton, his attitude toward the debate truly stood up. While Clinton was being defensive, Trump was attacking her constantly. However he did not started attack from the start, he started it after Clinton attacked him based on his wealthy background. Trump was having his points and shooting at Clinton, but Clinton did not have much comebacks against it, also she was trying to pretending cool by laughing off but that did not worked out well. That created side effect of highlighting Trump's attack.

Second, compare to Clinton, Trump seem really confident and he took control of the stage. He showed that through his body language and his strong voice about his policies. Also every times when Clinton was attempting to attack him, he had good comeback on those questions. When Clinton pointed out that Trump is from rich family, Trump when back with proving that he established successful business with his own ability. Also by keep cutting into Clinton's speakings, fixing facts or biased points, he did great job with making audience to loose focus on her points. That helped him to take control of the stage and Clinton's scripted and monotone helped people to be waiting for Trump to speak up.

I think presidential debate was mixture of public speaking skills and knowledge on politics. I am not American citizen so I do not have rights to vote, but watching presidential debate was really interesting.

I am speech reflection

I need to be much louder and memorize the script better. I was reading the script too much, not having much eye contact with the audience. My body language was fine but some people might think it was too much. My body language was natural to me. By watching at other people's speeches I noticed that I could try to have better flow of speech. I think my speech was little off flow so I can try to improve it better.

I am speech video

Part 1
https://youtu.be/AJvhKp8gY5E
Part 2
https://youtu.be/t-BtkF3IbEk

I Am Speech

Hello everyone. How many of you ever seen someone who grew up in South Korea and England and goes to school in US? I think I can be first one you can meet. So please feel free to ask me for a cup of tea, but do not ask me to speak with English accent, I already lost that. My name is Ryan Choi andI am 18years old senior in Cheshire Academy.  I believe that my past built my present.

My family has been huge part of me. Both my mum and dad are having successful career on their field and I admire them the most. I want to become like them, having high social status with fame. My mum and dad was working for international companies, so I always had great opportunity to explore around the world. That motivated me to come all the way to New England to go to high school.

When I was young, I was really confused about my nationality. I was born in South Korea but I was living in two countries, Korea and England. Two countries having totally different languages and cultures. I was lost in to chaos between those two countries. However since I started going to school, I started adopting both culture. I got used to being only asian kid in my elementary school in Norting Hill, London, and when I was going to school in Korea, I was trying hard to learn how to become Korean. I still remember other kids looking at me, questioning who I am. I was unique.

There was one thing I started fitting in. Sports. I started playing soccer. I got into soccer by watching Korean soccer star. He was defender but he was also great at offence too. I wanted to be kike him, so I started playing defender and I still play that role. I just got into love with soccer. I started supporting the team he was playing, Borussia Dortmund, the German club, even after he left, I still support that team. I always dreamed being on that team. To be honest I have 0 potential to play for that team but I am huge supporter of that team. I always dream about wearing their yellow and black jersey as part of team but not as player, as general manager of that team.

This is present me, built by my past. . So I am trying to focus on present so I can build better future.

Public Speaking Class

The public speaking class is mainly focused on developing the public speaking skills with practices. I joined the class later than other classmates so this week is my second week of the classes. I am kind of person who wants to speak a lot but this is my new school and I do not want to be loudest and outstanding kid in the first month of the school. I try to limit myself on speaking because I do not want to give people wrong first impression about me. However public speaking is definitely hard skill to pick up and I am trying to pick up as much skills I can from this course. Therefore to improve my public speaking skills I need to blend into school better to have more practices. 

Public speaking is difficult because you need to grab everyone’s attention and give them clear massage that you want to deliver. To fulfil that expectation, speaker need to have strong and loud voice to make all the audience to hear my words. speaker will also need body languages to make his words clear but need to be careful with it because too much body language will distract the audience. The natural body language of the speaker will help speaker to be much relaxed also the audience would feel fine with it. Additionally the speaker should try not to have monotone, if speaker keeps talking with monotone, the audience will get bored and be much harder to pick up the words. 

In my case, because English is not my first language I struggle with fluency and pronunciation. However this is not a problem I can easily solve, I need to keep working on improving my english skill to fix this problem. Through my childhood I have been the kid always enjoy talking in front of the audience but I was speaking Korean at that time. If I get much confident with my English skill I think I can perform better quality public speaking. 

Speech brainstorming

Intense sports games, family, personal memories, life lessons, failure, music, don't know what to talk about.

Family
Background
Grandparents
Parents

Soccer
Fan
Business
Borussia Dortmund

Lifelesson
Personal anecdotes
The failure

Bad ted talks

too much unnecessary information not matching the topic
Too much talking
Watching computer
Very fast

Annoying voice
Missing some information
Pictures do not match information
Not much strong argument

Voice is annoying
Too much weird body action

Bad TED talk

https://www.ted.com/talks/ray_zahab_treks_to_the_south_pole

The speaker was speaking really fast, also not much breaks between each sentence. His body language was inappropriate and acting cocky. He kept his hands in pockect. The structure of speech was making audience to keep loosing focus because the speaker was talking behind the pictures.

ㅋMorning meeting announcement

Good morning. I am Ryan and I'm a senior. Boys varsity soccer team has first home game on Saturday night on turf against Wooster. This will be our first game of the season. There will be plenty of food and ice cream truck will be there too. It will be great game and team is in good shape, not like last year. Please come and support the team. Thank you.

ㅋMorning meeting announcement

Good morning. I am Ryan and I'm a senior. Boys varsity soccer team has first home game on Saturday night on turf against Wooster. This will be our first game of the season. There will be plenty of food and ice cream truck will be there too. Please come and support the team. Thank you.

Ted Talk No.1

First Ted talk

Goods:
Have lots of motions: hand gestures and walking around
Good at taking pause
Very strong voice
Good jokes

Second Ted talk

Goods:
Really fun experience
Showing the actual visual about the contents

Third Ted Talk
Very fun and humorous
Making audience to focus on his performance
Used popular songs to help audience to be engaged
Making visualisation to give example to the audience

Who am I

Hi all, my name is Ryan Choi. I am from Seoul, Korea and 18years old. This is my first year in Cheshire Academy and I am a senior. I live in Motter basement, rooming with Stefano. I play soccer as centre defender. We have our first home game this Saturday day night on turf at 6pm against Wooster. It will be a great game.

I grew up in England and Korea therefore I was having easy access to soccer ball. All of my friends were playing soccer and soccer ball was our favourite toy, even I was bad at soccer when I was young. Everyday I went to playground with my friends and passing or dribbling the ball around slides and swings until my mum comes back from work and finds me. I was doing that everyday until I started skating and dreaming to be national team short-track skater. I started playing soccer again after I quit skating because of my ankle surgery. As a recovery I started playing for club soccer teams. I started playing soccer playing as winger, but when I came to highschool, Brewster Academy, I changed my position to defender. Right now I prefer playing as defender and I thank my old coach that he switched me to a defender.

I was born in Korea but grew up in England and Korea. It is quite unique to have back ground like this. My mum was working for British government so I was living in London, Notting hill. It is exact place where famous romance movie Notting Hill was shot. We do not live there anymore but Notting Hill was a place I started building myself. Every morning my mum and I go for a walk around the park. We stop by famous bakery in our town "Tom's bakery" and pick up croassant sandwich and walk back to our house. No matter of the weather, we went out every morning. It is the moment I really miss.

When I was 6 years old I started skating. Korea is huge country for speed skating therefore it was easy to me to get access to skating. I started with speed skating and changed to short-track. I admire national team skaters and always wanted to be like them. Coach said I was talented. I had 8 hours of practice everyday but I truly loved being on ice. I was being ranked as top prospect and potential national team skater in the future. Unfortunately accident happened during race, my ankle broke. I went through surgery and recovery. That was the time I moved to London and started playing soccer.

I think my childhood build my everything. All of my actions can be explained from the past memory. Soccer, London and skating took huge part of me and making my personal. Those three factors are very important to me. 

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