New friends!

I have new friends!

Never thought that after all this time I could still make new friends!

It started off with tennis lessons at the club for Madison. Her coach suggested private lessons which we did, and that led to her sharing some sessions with another boy one year younger.

I bumped into his mother several times over the year, and we both signed the kids up for the JTT mini tennis tournament at United World College earlier this year. Her son actually got champion and runner's up for both sessions!

At the second tournament she mentioned that she just started tennis sessions with another mother at the club, and asked if I would like to join them.

To be honest I was quite nervous, but I thought 'what the heck! Give it a shot and if I don't like it I can stop! '

Turns out the 2 women are really nice people! We had a session with all 3 of us, but then the weather was unfavourable for the next 2 weeks. Last week we finally had good weather, but the one who organized it got a back injury. We still continued with the lesson( just 2 of us) and we had fun.

In support of our injured buddy we will go and swim with her after the tennis session on Tuesdays.  (Tuesday is tennis day for us)

I think friends motivate us. I was starting to dread tennis lessons alone and now it feels like the pressure is off. I think that was why I gave up on French lessons. The subject material was quite interesting, but not having or knowing anyone at the lessons made me lose my motivation to attend the lessons. It just seemed that at those lessons the participants seemed to change every class!

We are social animals. I think in life it is the relationships that make life worthwhile and satisfying!