It was 8th grade year I had nothing to do all day and the other days due toquarantine and covid-19, so I barely went out. One day my friend Ethan comes over and brings his skateboard. My friend and I chill at my house we play basketball and such. Later that day my friend Ethan asks me to go skate with him. at the time I was kinda nervous because I never skateboarded before and I had fears of falling and breaking a bone or something. after him persuading memultiple times, I finally decide to go out skating with him.

We out in the streetinfrontof my house my friendEthan was letting me borrow hisskateboard while he tried to teach me how to skate. I was very scared at first. I wobbled a bit trying to ride, butsupposedlyI learned how to ride a skateboard under 5 minutes. I was very proud in my self. My friendEthan was hyping me up, he tried teaching me how to ollie after but that was very hard for me soI fell many times. My friendEthan and I kept taking turns using the skateboard sinceIdidn'town a skateboard at the time.

At the end of the day my friendEthan tells me to buy a skate board soI could skate withhim and hisskateBuddysand also teach me how to skate.a few days later of methinking of getting a skateboard. I decide to go toWalmart to buy my first skateboard. My friendEthan has told me to get a cheapWalmart skateboard first soI could get use toskateboarding and to see ifIactually really like skating. And he also told me when Iactually get good and wannacontinue skating to get a more expensive high quality skateboard, andthat'sexactly whatI did.

WhenI got my skateboard all told my friend Ethan and my other friend Nike skated too with Ethan. A day or two later they invite me to come skate with at the same park. I was obviously a beginner so I was trying to take slow and was trying to learn Ollies, but see my other friends and other people at the skate parkmade me feel likeIdidn't belong there because I was a beginner and was bad at skating at the time. Andonly knew how to ride around like a poser. Isitted on the benches or stairs of the skate park watching way better skaters skate for most of the day.unit we left.

After that day it gave me theconfidence to actually start skating more. So every day me and my friend niket would go skateboard and try to learn new tricks. I've been practicing how to learn how to ollie for a few days. Until a week later when my friend niket and I was at the park I landed my first ollie. I was very happy because that was my first every trick on skateboard. I kept skating everyday with my friend niket until I learned a few moretricks, and even got a good brand new high quality skateboard from the mall.

A month or two months goes by me my friend niket, andEthan meet this skater at the park namedTony which is his nick name, his actual name isAnthony. He is a good friendI'm stillfriends with him to this day. He teached me how tokick flip. I even went back to the skate park with other skaters and I finally felt likeI belongedI was doing tricks people at the skate parkhaven't even seen before. I even made new friends from skating and from the skate park.