volleyball

Yesterday after school I went to play volleyball with the Tokyo Gaijins group down in Tamachi. It was a LONG time since I last went there -- and 3 months since I last really PLAYED volleyball as far as I remember, I'm not counting running drills with a bunch of 13-year-olds at my JHS.

The good: only 16 people at the most crowded, and only 6 guys. There's only one net at the TG setup, so it sucks when there are more than 18 because you REALLY get rotated off for long periods of time.

The bad: I sucked. I was SO out of practice and I could feel it. Total lead feet, bad form, no reflexes, etc.

But in general the people there were really nice, and almost all people I had met before, so that was comfortable at least. It was just frustrating to suck. I might try to go this Saturday again if my other sports schedule allows... they are also having a Tokyo Gaijins party this Saturday at the same time, but I am not that interested in it because I don't really drink. Funny part: the TG party is free admission for foreigners but 2000 yen for Japanese people. The reason? Apparently, they're getting a reputation for being a place for Japanese chicks to pick up foreign guys or make foreign friends and the ratio of Japanese to foreigners at the parties has been a little bit out of whack recently, so he wants to get more foreigners to come. I don't know since I never go, but anyway, we'll see what happens.

I ate at McDonald's when I got back to Akabane. The current quarter-pounder-bacon-bbq is actually remarkably good all things considered. There was a dude giving an English lesson there too, which was really weird.

Today we had our chorus competition here at school. It was really amazing. I need to write a school entry as usual, but have no time...