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Skating
I never went skating before expect until last Thursday night.
It's amazing.
That day was our team building day, and it was also a special experience for me. :)
It was a rainy, windy and cold night. On our way to the restaurant (to eat hot pot), I saw a thief following a man, and the thief stretched into the man's pocket to steal the wallet. "Ho!" I yelled without thinking. The thief was surprised with this gift by this sound and he stopped following the man. They started to follow us, yes, they! I found there are were three thieves working together until now. Several minutes later, they left.
After dinner, we took taxis to go to a rink. The building is amazing, it looks like a white UFO, very huge, I like it. Then we got into the building and started skating.
It was my first time skating to skate, and this is in a real ice rink, but when I saw the other players going around the rink like a free birds, I became envious. I wanted to be a free bird like them, they looks looked so nice.
I tried to skate, it's so fun, I like it. :)
What a good day!
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Note: I crossed out "very huge" because it's redundant. If something's huge, it already has a strong connotation, so you don't need an extra "very."
You can use "it was my first time ~ing," like "it was my first time skating yesterday." Another construction: "yesterday was my first time skating in two years."
What comes after "like" must agree in number. For example, "they skated like free birds" is correct because "they" is plural so "free birds" must also be plural.
Tenses: generally, you want to use the same tense throughout the piece unless you want to talk about the present specifically. For example, "the building is amazing." Although the sentence is correct because the building still exists, native speakers tend to use the past tense ("the building was amazing") because they are describing their reactions in the past.
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