I never learned how to skate. My mother was Canadian, and tried to teach my sister and I how to skate, but we never learned. I remember one of our lessons, where we had to walk from one side of the rink to the other. Of course, we could not skate, we just walked on the skates. I did make it to the other side, grabbed at it, and fell down. Another kid laughed at me, but I laughed as well.