29.12.2006


ATHLETIC PARTICIPATION






ATHLETIC PARTICIPATION 

http://www.netsaga.is/media/files/Ssomagicjust%20suddenly.mp3


     Throughout my youth all kinds of sports occupied much of my time.

 

  I was e.g. the goalkeeper of one of my town's youth-teams in soccer, or until I went away from home to study in the junior-college at Laugarvatn, a tiny village up in the country located in the south of Iceland. 

 

 There I carried on as a goalie in the school's team, when competing with teams from other continuation schools.

 

  I also made the school's volleyball-team, which used the name of the local team, thus making us competible in Iceland's highest league among the best. 

 

       I and the late Sveinn Sigurdur  Gunnarsson made it possible for us to take part in the National Competition of Icelandic Youth Clubs on Akranes in 1975, when we contributed to the starting of a new volleyball-division of the Youth-Club in Keflavik.

 

 We rounded up four of our mates, thus making it a legimate team. 

 

 The fact that only the two of us had ever played the game or that I was the only one who had ever played a serious match or that we were beaten each and every time didn't matter at all. 

 

 The true Olympic-spirit of the Icelandic people;

 

 to take part whatever the expence or results was our only purpose. 

 

 Or was it just the lust for entertainment? 

 

 It doesn't matter. 

 

 I can only remember, that we had marvellous fun that week-end.

      I was compelled to wear glasses for the first time during my rehabilitation at Grensas, when I started complaining about how difficult it was for me to read the cutline on TV. 

 

      Because of my former passion for volleyball I ran up against difficulties when I turned up for my first lesson in gymnastics in the College's new-built gymnasium without glasses, but only half a sight.

   I didn't dare having my glasses on my nose, because ...

Dear reader, 

"My Incredible Struggle After the Accident "


is available on the Kindle now.
Here is the link for its page on the Kindle store:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0032JTTNA



You can buy the whole story at www.unibook.com