I did mentally hard last summer. This
summer it’s physically hard.
It’s so different, those two challenges of those two summers. If last summer, working in a camp for physically and mentally disabled people, in USA, everything was mentally hard, then this summer working for Team Denmark in Denmark, is physically hard.
Last summer, Camp Atlantic was wearing me out from the brain. Physically, it was tiring but not really unbearable, but the mental part suffered so hard that at some points I was wondering if it still exists. As my co-counsellor Paul very well put it: “We’re probably all gonna leave this place with no social skills what so ever,” and from time to time I was in no doubt that we’ve lost these and all other skills already. But it was a great challenge and loads of fun as well, so I’ve not once regretted that I did it. Rather sometimes regretting that I’m not going to do it again this summer.
But as USA and mentally disabled world were strange and far-from-familiar for me, so is the sports world. Im starting to see how being a sportsmen is like a whole different world, lifestyle and even mentality. And how much it really takes to be a professional. And how little, in the regular understanding, it gives. – Just the joy of being good (if) and possibly the fame.
It’s also new to me to be so physically tired all the time. While being mentally very very refreshing, my work as a trainer is physically quite hard. Tho it’s not the tiredness as in ‘I can’t do anything and just wanna sleep’ but more like..you feel you’ve done a lot.
I also don’t think I’ve ever had this much trouble going to sleep as now, body being kind of unable to suddenly stop with all this moving around and mental part being so alert and thinking of all the new things it knows and making plans and being..annoying when you’d rather sleep. And then, in the morning, so much trouble getting up. I feel as if being ran over by a bus and just want to lay in my bed, my brain doesn’t really start functioning and my body doesn’t really wanna move. But once I realize who I am where I am and what is it, Im supposed to wake up for, I have all the energy and willingness in the world.
And as a girl I kind of like this new world, as I can really leave home with my sweatspants, put no make up on, just wash my face, brush my teeth and pull the hair back. (AND remember to put the watch on as it turns out to be impossible to live without.) And that feels so nice in the mornings J. Plus no waking up earlier for the morning run, cause you can do it at your work. HOW nice.
…Gotta love. J.
So this is my first impressions.
It’s so different, those two challenges of those two summers. If last summer, working in a camp for physically and mentally disabled people, in USA, everything was mentally hard, then this summer working for Team Denmark in Denmark, is physically hard.
Last summer, Camp Atlantic was wearing me out from the brain. Physically, it was tiring but not really unbearable, but the mental part suffered so hard that at some points I was wondering if it still exists. As my co-counsellor Paul very well put it: “We’re probably all gonna leave this place with no social skills what so ever,” and from time to time I was in no doubt that we’ve lost these and all other skills already. But it was a great challenge and loads of fun as well, so I’ve not once regretted that I did it. Rather sometimes regretting that I’m not going to do it again this summer.
But as USA and mentally disabled world were strange and far-from-familiar for me, so is the sports world. Im starting to see how being a sportsmen is like a whole different world, lifestyle and even mentality. And how much it really takes to be a professional. And how little, in the regular understanding, it gives. – Just the joy of being good (if) and possibly the fame.
It’s also new to me to be so physically tired all the time. While being mentally very very refreshing, my work as a trainer is physically quite hard. Tho it’s not the tiredness as in ‘I can’t do anything and just wanna sleep’ but more like..you feel you’ve done a lot.
I also don’t think I’ve ever had this much trouble going to sleep as now, body being kind of unable to suddenly stop with all this moving around and mental part being so alert and thinking of all the new things it knows and making plans and being..annoying when you’d rather sleep. And then, in the morning, so much trouble getting up. I feel as if being ran over by a bus and just want to lay in my bed, my brain doesn’t really start functioning and my body doesn’t really wanna move. But once I realize who I am where I am and what is it, Im supposed to wake up for, I have all the energy and willingness in the world.
And as a girl I kind of like this new world, as I can really leave home with my sweatspants, put no make up on, just wash my face, brush my teeth and pull the hair back. (AND remember to put the watch on as it turns out to be impossible to live without.) And that feels so nice in the mornings J. Plus no waking up earlier for the morning run, cause you can do it at your work. HOW nice.
…Gotta love. J.
So this is my first impressions.
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