I finished my ordinary elementary school life. At the time most of my friends entered the same junior high school. First thing I did was choose a club activity. I realized how fun it was for me to play sports, so I decided to join one of the sports club. Soccer and baseball were really attractive to me.. I wanted to be a pro sports player. When I couldn’t decide, my friend “K” asked me to join the baseball club. That was the biggest reason I joined.
It was my first time to practice playing baseball my whole life. It cost 30000yen(300$) to get all my equip. I couldn’t believe they cost that much.. Anyway I chose a glove which is for regulation baseball but actually what I needed was a soft ball glove. I don’t know why I chose it , but later it caused me a trouble.. I couldn’t start practicing baseball when I was in elementary school, so I wasn’t a good baseball player at all.
My first year in junior high school went so fast. In my second year, I played baseball but I still couldn’t play well. My life was the same as other students at the time. Nothing was special. In the middle of this year, we were supposed to go to a school trip. We planed the details for the trip for a few months earlier. One day we talked about the school events. We debated and found out what to do. Some students decided to do some mini games in the school bus. We had to take the bus all the way to Nikko which was country side and had a lot of animals. Because the drive was long that’s why some students started playing mini games. I wasn’t really interested in the mini games, so I wanted to choose to do something special. The class leader was looking for somebody to dance at the time. Without thinking I said “I can do it!” and my arm was up in the air. My curiosity and courage made me do dancing.
We had 5 members to do the dance event. One of the members, “Fujisan”(not the mountain) let us watch dance videos at his house. We watched some dance videos there. His video player was the loudest player I’ve ever seen. We stopped the video a lot , and tried to get some hints from it. After one week , we had to leave our homes , because we had to depart for the school trip.
At 5 am, we gathered and got in the bus. It took over 2 hours to get to the destination. We saw monkeys and some other animals before we got there. We went hiking and cooked outside. We were surrounded by nature , and had a lot of fun. Then it was about time to start the camp fire. That meant we had to get ready to dance because we were supposed to dance before starting the camp fire. I felt nervous and excited, but I didn’t have a lot of time to think about that. It was show time!
The music started suddenly .. We all thought we failed but it was our teacher’s mistake. We started again. I even got more nervous. Students around us were just quiet. The music started again! We started dancing. I had no time to think. My body seemed like it moved itself! We did acrobatics at the end! As I calmed down and saw the audience,
they were cheering and some of them were screaming!! We did it!! I had never seen this scene in my life! I had never felt this feeling before! I was so excited! It was the first and biggest success in my life at the time.
When the 3 days school trip was over, my ordinary school life started again. At this time, some students asked me if I wanted to belong to one of the biggest Japanese agents in Japan. I thought they were kidding or making fun of me, so I didn’t take it seriously. I still couldn’t forget the feeling that I felt on the stage. I didn’t know what it was, but after a while I realized something. My heart said to me “I want to learn how to dance!” so I tried to find put where to dance but at the time we didn’t have really good internet, and I didn’t know where to look to find it..
After a while, when my mother got home from an alumni, she told me her old friend was a choreographer. I decided to go to his studio! It was my first time to see a real studio and commute to Tokyo. I was living in Chiba which is next to Tokyo. I don’t know why but it was fun to walk with so many people in Tokyo. I felt this is really Tokyo! My double life had just started! I became a dancer while I was also playing baseball player. My life started getting crazy from this time on…
One day I was walking on the rail which was always there. Suddenly I realized I was getting more involved in the entertainment industry. One year ago I would never had imagined I would be here. Becoming an actor in Hollywood ?? No one had this idea at the time. My life started changing from here…
To be continued…
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