Adam Jian --Reflective Writing: Object

An object that holds a significant value is a soccer ball I had. This ball was covered with a shiny green skin that reminds me of the scale of a crocodile. I love crocodiles. But no, they don’t hold significant value to me, it’s the soccer ball that does. I love playing soccer. At every recess back in third grade, me and me friends would run to the basketball quart to play soccer; we continued to play as years past. I went to an international school in Korea and students often left after coming a few years while new ones come in so soccer became a way to make friends both in and out of school as I cannot speak Korean. I had a friend that also cannot speak Korean and he was from Thailand. In sixth grade, when he was going back to Thailand, he gave me this ball to remember him by. And with that soccer ball, I sometimes would play with Koreans that did not speak English so I would have no way to communicate. When there was no one to play with, I would stay practice by myself. At the first chance to join the school soccer team, I did. Being in Korea really got me started in participating in the most exciting sport in the world. Although as I came to Taiwan, the ball was worn out, dirty, and was eventually kicked really hard into a scary dark forest/bush/lake with scary dark weeds and beast( not sure which one), but I got a replacement and when looking at this new ball, still am reminded of the past. This object is a memory of Korea and of all the great people whom I had the honor to call my friends.