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more high school baseball adventures
So today was kinda crazy.
I didn't get up early enough to actually see Kuwata Junior swing a bat, but I did see him in the last 5-10 minutes of the Nichidai Tsurugaoka vs. Oberlin game. He doesn't much look like his dad actually. And his team lost, so it was the last chance, I suppose (unless he goes to Waseda for college, ha ha ha).
The second game was Waseda Jitsugyo vs. Soka, and I was sitting on the Waseda side only because it was the third base side, and I'd plunked down there during the first game since I found a seat in the very front row to take photos from. To be fair I have nothing against Waseda on a HS level anyway, although it's the same hype issue I have with Waseda on a college level. Soka I support on general principle because every 3-4 years they are going to send a nice boy from Soka HS to Soka Univ to the Nippon Ham Fighters. No, really (Yagi, Koyano, Takaguchi, now Otsuka...)
As I was getting ready to run up to get a drink and put on sunscreen for the second game I heard a "DEANNA?!?" from 3-4 rows behind me. I am somewhat accustomed to running into random people at Jingu. I am NOT, however, accustomed to having a random 12-year-old kid yelling my name... yes, I ran into one of my JHS students, who was there with his parents to watch Waseda's team since they know Yasuda, #8, the centerfielder. Whoops. His parents seemed amused more than anything, like "Wow, we heard you really like baseball but...!"
Waseda won as Soka imploded (their starter was a freshman, even) and it was a called 15-3 game in 8 innings.
The third game of the day was Waseda Gakuin vs. Toa Gakuen. I stayed for about one inning of that before leaving. Quite frankly there's only so much Waseda I can take in one day.
No, seriously, I was having some heatstroke issues. I arrived around 10:45am and stayed until 3pm, and in that time I drank two bottles of water and had a cup of shaved ice and had a Coke as well, and I started getting a headache around 1:30-2ish and it never went away, so I finally left, figuring that cooling down somewhere and eating some food would help. I went to Subway and got a sandwich and a big diet coke with lots of ice too, and sat for a bit, though the headache didn't subside until I took some Tylenol.
I rode the subways to Oji after that. I felt a little better in the airconditioned cars but still a little crappy, then when I had to walk to the Kita-ku ward office in the heat, I felt crappy again... I got my gaijin card updated, so now I don't have to carry my passport with me, hooray.
Then back to Akabane. I stopped by the bank to pay rent, and then I did an hour of solo karaoke because I won't have another chance before my trip to the US and I had a few things I wanted to try. Though I still had a little bit of a headache there...
To be perfectly honest, the headache didn't go away until around 8pm, after I was at home for a while and the AC was running long enough for me to have spent significant time in a cooled room. I drank some Aquarius, put in a load of laundry and zoned out to play PP because that was all I was really capable of, and as the time in my room went on, I felt better and better.
I'm supposed to go back to Jingu tomorrow too, which is okay, but this time I'm freezing TWO bottles of water to bring along. I only have the one bottle cooler, but maybe they'll last longer this way. I'm also going to bring bread to eat too, and wear slightly cooler clothes. Hopefully that'll all help. I wanna go to Yokohama on Saturday to see the legendary Yokohama HS play, which will be difficult if I'm unable to manage heat issues. It's supposed to go up to 35 pretty much every day. Bleh.
I didn't get up early enough to actually see Kuwata Junior swing a bat, but I did see him in the last 5-10 minutes of the Nichidai Tsurugaoka vs. Oberlin game. He doesn't much look like his dad actually. And his team lost, so it was the last chance, I suppose (unless he goes to Waseda for college, ha ha ha).
The second game was Waseda Jitsugyo vs. Soka, and I was sitting on the Waseda side only because it was the third base side, and I'd plunked down there during the first game since I found a seat in the very front row to take photos from. To be fair I have nothing against Waseda on a HS level anyway, although it's the same hype issue I have with Waseda on a college level. Soka I support on general principle because every 3-4 years they are going to send a nice boy from Soka HS to Soka Univ to the Nippon Ham Fighters. No, really (Yagi, Koyano, Takaguchi, now Otsuka...)
As I was getting ready to run up to get a drink and put on sunscreen for the second game I heard a "DEANNA?!?" from 3-4 rows behind me. I am somewhat accustomed to running into random people at Jingu. I am NOT, however, accustomed to having a random 12-year-old kid yelling my name... yes, I ran into one of my JHS students, who was there with his parents to watch Waseda's team since they know Yasuda, #8, the centerfielder. Whoops. His parents seemed amused more than anything, like "Wow, we heard you really like baseball but...!"
Waseda won as Soka imploded (their starter was a freshman, even) and it was a called 15-3 game in 8 innings.
The third game of the day was Waseda Gakuin vs. Toa Gakuen. I stayed for about one inning of that before leaving. Quite frankly there's only so much Waseda I can take in one day.
No, seriously, I was having some heatstroke issues. I arrived around 10:45am and stayed until 3pm, and in that time I drank two bottles of water and had a cup of shaved ice and had a Coke as well, and I started getting a headache around 1:30-2ish and it never went away, so I finally left, figuring that cooling down somewhere and eating some food would help. I went to Subway and got a sandwich and a big diet coke with lots of ice too, and sat for a bit, though the headache didn't subside until I took some Tylenol.
I rode the subways to Oji after that. I felt a little better in the airconditioned cars but still a little crappy, then when I had to walk to the Kita-ku ward office in the heat, I felt crappy again... I got my gaijin card updated, so now I don't have to carry my passport with me, hooray.
Then back to Akabane. I stopped by the bank to pay rent, and then I did an hour of solo karaoke because I won't have another chance before my trip to the US and I had a few things I wanted to try. Though I still had a little bit of a headache there...
To be perfectly honest, the headache didn't go away until around 8pm, after I was at home for a while and the AC was running long enough for me to have spent significant time in a cooled room. I drank some Aquarius, put in a load of laundry and zoned out to play PP because that was all I was really capable of, and as the time in my room went on, I felt better and better.
I'm supposed to go back to Jingu tomorrow too, which is okay, but this time I'm freezing TWO bottles of water to bring along. I only have the one bottle cooler, but maybe they'll last longer this way. I'm also going to bring bread to eat too, and wear slightly cooler clothes. Hopefully that'll all help. I wanna go to Yokohama on Saturday to see the legendary Yokohama HS play, which will be difficult if I'm unable to manage heat issues. It's supposed to go up to 35 pretty much every day. Bleh.