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Today I went down to Jingu for the afternoon for some college baseball. I watched the tail end of the Keio-Hosei game (Keio, predictably, won 4-0) and the entirety of the Meiji-Waseda game. Waseda won 3-0, and I undoubtedly saw a bunch of guys play who will get drafted and go pro next year (I would be surprised if none of the four of senior Waseda players Uemoto, Matsumoto, Suda, and Hosoyamada, end up drafted). Oddly, the player that intrigued me the most was a pitcher named Oishi, who we saw play in Soukeisen last year ("oishikunai!!") He's a sophomore and he throws 95mph. Even Yuu-chan, the most famous college baseball player in the country, doesn't throw that fast (he hits around 92).
What's silly is, this means there's another game tomorrow, at 1pm. And it's probably Yuu-chan vs. Iwata (despite Yuki pitching yesterday and today), which is exciting. But I can't decide whether to go. I want to go, and to take pictures, but... I think it might rain. AND I think a better use of the day would be to clean my apartment and go shopping and stuff. (sigh... would be a good day to air out my futon if it doesn't RAIN...) Plus I have my Fighters arts'n'crafts project to start, too. So I think I'm gonna skip out on going back to Jingu.
Oh, so after the game I headed to Takadanobaba, oddly, to the Waseda campus area, for volleyball. I ended up getting dinner at Wendy's because hey, that's something new and different for me. Hung around the restaurant for an hour or so, then went hunting for the Shinjuku Sports Center so I could go play volleyball with Intervoll (the group I went to play with back in late March). The start time was 7:30 but I wasn't sure if that meant start then, or start the 30 mins warmup time then. Turns out it was the latter. Oops. So I was like 25 minutes early.
There were only enough people for 4 teams this time, but that's ok. Also we ended up playing 6 games -- first team division played all 3 other teams, then we redivided to new teams and played against all others again. The first team I was on was probably the best one there and we won all of our games easily. The second team was not so much. I was having a LOT of trouble serving, but I wasn't having trouble with anything else so I guess it's ok. But not being able to serve was very frustrating and makes me want to lift weights again.
I ended up chatting with a few people, mostly at the beginning. One dude was a computer engineer from Nepal, for example. And this time there was actually another full gaijin female there (most of the women are Japanese or half-Japanese), but I didn't talk to her, we weren't on the same team. Oh, and that guy who I remembered so well from the other time, because he was so amazing at volleyball and so quiet? He turns out to be one of the leaders of the organization, and was in charge of splitting up teams and setting up and taking down stuff today. (Also, he has the same name as a (lesser-known) Fighters pitcher. No joke!) He was on the first team I played with, and we were next to each other in the rotation, so it was great fun setting him and getting sets from him. But the downside was how embarrassing it was that I could NOT serve :( And my complete inability to actually TALK to him and others that seemed interesting. And of course having to face him in the second set of teams. He has this floater serve to die for...
Afterwards, I changed clothes quickly and walked back to the station with one of the other women from volleyball, who knew a shortcut (but was going the opposite way as me once we got to the trains). Also, because I had not showered -- I didn't feel like dragging towels and stuff with me all day -- my goal was to get home and shower ASAP, rather than try to talk to people. Apparently most of the people there just go home to bathe afterwards, because we end WAY too close to the building closing time to shower, I swear. But it also seemed like some people were hanging out afterwards. So, maybe next time I'll bring stuff. Though at this rate, "next time" will be June 15.
Okay, so anyway, I went to Max Valu around midnight and bought some cleaning supplies so I can make this place less messy. I also spent 1080 yen on a bottle of Downy fabric softener. I feel pathetic, but I think it will make me happy for my clothes to smell like Downy again, seriously.
What's silly is, this means there's another game tomorrow, at 1pm. And it's probably Yuu-chan vs. Iwata (despite Yuki pitching yesterday and today), which is exciting. But I can't decide whether to go. I want to go, and to take pictures, but... I think it might rain. AND I think a better use of the day would be to clean my apartment and go shopping and stuff. (sigh... would be a good day to air out my futon if it doesn't RAIN...) Plus I have my Fighters arts'n'crafts project to start, too. So I think I'm gonna skip out on going back to Jingu.
Oh, so after the game I headed to Takadanobaba, oddly, to the Waseda campus area, for volleyball. I ended up getting dinner at Wendy's because hey, that's something new and different for me. Hung around the restaurant for an hour or so, then went hunting for the Shinjuku Sports Center so I could go play volleyball with Intervoll (the group I went to play with back in late March). The start time was 7:30 but I wasn't sure if that meant start then, or start the 30 mins warmup time then. Turns out it was the latter. Oops. So I was like 25 minutes early.
There were only enough people for 4 teams this time, but that's ok. Also we ended up playing 6 games -- first team division played all 3 other teams, then we redivided to new teams and played against all others again. The first team I was on was probably the best one there and we won all of our games easily. The second team was not so much. I was having a LOT of trouble serving, but I wasn't having trouble with anything else so I guess it's ok. But not being able to serve was very frustrating and makes me want to lift weights again.
I ended up chatting with a few people, mostly at the beginning. One dude was a computer engineer from Nepal, for example. And this time there was actually another full gaijin female there (most of the women are Japanese or half-Japanese), but I didn't talk to her, we weren't on the same team. Oh, and that guy who I remembered so well from the other time, because he was so amazing at volleyball and so quiet? He turns out to be one of the leaders of the organization, and was in charge of splitting up teams and setting up and taking down stuff today. (Also, he has the same name as a (lesser-known) Fighters pitcher. No joke!) He was on the first team I played with, and we were next to each other in the rotation, so it was great fun setting him and getting sets from him. But the downside was how embarrassing it was that I could NOT serve :( And my complete inability to actually TALK to him and others that seemed interesting. And of course having to face him in the second set of teams. He has this floater serve to die for...
Afterwards, I changed clothes quickly and walked back to the station with one of the other women from volleyball, who knew a shortcut (but was going the opposite way as me once we got to the trains). Also, because I had not showered -- I didn't feel like dragging towels and stuff with me all day -- my goal was to get home and shower ASAP, rather than try to talk to people. Apparently most of the people there just go home to bathe afterwards, because we end WAY too close to the building closing time to shower, I swear. But it also seemed like some people were hanging out afterwards. So, maybe next time I'll bring stuff. Though at this rate, "next time" will be June 15.
Okay, so anyway, I went to Max Valu around midnight and bought some cleaning supplies so I can make this place less messy. I also spent 1080 yen on a bottle of Downy fabric softener. I feel pathetic, but I think it will make me happy for my clothes to smell like Downy again, seriously.
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