This is my story about my favorite hobby. My favorite hobby is wakeboarding. Approximately, five years ago, I experienced wakeboarding for the first time. I was with a group that enjoyed skiing, but we couldn't enjoy skiing during the summer months, so we found a new hobby – wakeboarding! Wakeboarding allowed for us to experience the same type of phenomenon during the summer that skiing gave us during the winter.

At first, I was afraid of wakeboarding. For example, I was afraid of the boat's speed when it was pulling me and trying to maintain my balance on the water. With time, I adapted to these fears and came to enjoy wakeboarding very much! Moreover, I liked how wakeboarding built my self confidence. At first, I fell into the water many times – but I never gave up trying – and therefore, I was able to improve and master wakeboarding. Little by little, the number of times I fell while wakeboarding reduced. That made me so happy!

Nowadays, I don't fall in the water, but I still cannot perform difficult stunts. So I will try to perfect these maneuvers in the coming year. Wakeboarding challenges me, and I enjoy being challenged to overcome my fears!