Year 9 English - Holiday Challenge article

By Stuart Scott | Posted: Wednesday November 13, 2024

Bored in the holidays - need a solution?

It's the middle of the summer holidays and it's been two whole weeks. It's 6pm and all you've done is pace around after your computer has been confiscated for playing games since you woke up. Well, have I got a solution for you! Learn how to ice skate! If this sounds like you, then try it out! It's fun, engaging and there are a whole bunch of benefits that come with it FREE of charge. 

Here are the ways it can be fun. You are constantly moving and exercising. You are talking to your friends. You are learning a new skill. It kind of feels like you're gliding on a cloud. An endless current pulling you on top of the ice. Pure bliss. You can also turn it into a sport, by signing up for ice hockey. Not only is it cheap, fun and engaging, but you can do it with your friends, making it a productive use of your time.

Ice skating can help you do other things as well. If you know how to ice skate, you will basically know how to ski as ice skating helps with your balance. Balance is a really important aspect of your life. Your whole life requires balancing such as walking, running, sitting up, standing, unicycling and more. This is why balance is an important part of life and ice skating reinforces that skill.

Kids call “being social” playing games with their friends, but that's just a lousy excuse to keep playing games. I bet you've said that before! What being social actually means is being in real life, interacting, not on a screen. Talking to them and having fun. Ice skating is exactly that. You get to hang out with your friends and talk to them whilst having fun on the ice. Also, when you're ice skating, you're picking up a new skill. These are essential in life to stay healthy and fit.

I’ve ice skated with my friends before. Sure, I'm not that good at it, and I fall over a lot, but that's all part of the fun. Especially when you are in a group of five and only one can ice skate properly. My advice is, just GIVE IT A GO. Don’t be scared, don't back down, so get off that screen, rent some skates, and get out onto the ice!