Ensayoscollege

Edgardo Tapia
English Comp I
Deborah Leyton
February 08, 2013
Expressive essay
If I have to think in a person who has meant so much in my life as person and athlete, it would is Orlando, myfather. He has always been the person who has been closest to me, since the similarity of our personality makes our relationship of father and son even stronger. He is a fit, healthy and very active manwho I see him with a lot of experience since his whole life was athlete and that knows exactly what it takes to be a great athlete of high performance. He has been in each of my steps as a tennisplayer. His advice and teachings have helped me to become the person I am.
My start as an athlete was in one of the streets of my town, when I was 8 years old. Next to my father and a neighbor of us Istarted playing tennis with a racket of beach, which is very heavy and so far to be equal to a tennis racket, but the little knowledge of mine at that time and the excitement of learning to play madethat I didn't care. I remember that I could see and feel the excitement of my father with the ease that I had to execute the strokes. Day after day, month after month he kept taking me but to a tennisclub close to my house when we could play for free and gradually improving my game. I grew stronger and better all under his guidance, as he had given me something to hold onto and work towards. A fewmonths later he bought me my first tennis racket. My first feeling to receive it was the same when I got my first toy. It was then that I knew there was no turning back and this was for me.
Now eventhough his sport that he took up honing his skills in was indeed not tennis, but rather in the sport which is most famous in South America as is soccer, sport with completely different characteristics.He had considerable success playing in teams of my city and never I will never get bored to listen their stories of when he played, when he made many goals and told me stories of his past as a...