I joined the volleyball club today at school

[dr4b]

I mean, not permanently, but basically, it was Friday afternoon and I had finished everything I had to do for the time being like preparing lessons and grading today's speaking test (which I'll talk about more in a friends-only entry)... and so I was walking around aimlessly looking for something to do, so I went outside to the schoolyard, and the volleyball and soccer clubs were setting up, and there were no 3rd-years, so it was mostly the 1st- and 2nd- year students that actually like me. So I came over and started passing the ball around with them, and they essentially invited me to go through their entire workout with them (including doing pushups and situps and running and all this other stuff). I couldn't do all of it -- had to quit running after two times around the track, and I also couldn't do one of their weirdo situp things because I just couldn't figure out how to, but everything else I pretty much did, like passing, hitting, etc. Eventually the 3rd-year girls showed up and we had a "match", by which I mean the 3rd-years set up the 5 of them and the best 2nd-year girl and then we had 9 of us on the other side, and they had ME serve the ball to the other side every time, so I was doing my best to serve to a different person each time. I was kind of like "really? me?" but they kept giving me the ball to serve over. I dunno.

The sempai-kohai thing is really enforced here -- when I chased down a ball one of the 2nd-years was like "don't do that, the 1st-years are supposed to go chase down any volleyballs that get away". And once the 3rd-year girls showed up, everyone else really snapped into "yes sir okay sir" mode to them.

Anyway, I had fun, though I got totally sweaty in my corduroy pants and polo shirt and OMG next time I have to only do that if I have some gym clothes with me.

It was great, too, I swear the entire school at one point or another were like "WTF is Deanna doing out there with the volleyball club?" The soccer boys especially were really dumbfounded (but I heard one of them saying "holy crap! she's got an ARM!" when I was hitting/serving).

The teacher who is nominally in charge of the vball club came by afterwards and I was kind of like "um, is it really ok for me to play volleyball with them?" and he basically said "How long have you been playing volleyball?" and I said "...since junior high school" and he was like "...even now?" "Yeah, even now." "Then by all means, please feel free to come to volleyball club whenever you want."

I dunno, we'll see. But hey, I WAS lamenting that I have to miss vball the next weekend or two thanks to Fighters games, so getting some practice in certainly can't hurt!

As for the rest of the day, well, I should be preparing to go to Hiroshima tomorrow I suppose, but instead I'm just kind of zoning out.

Comments

[cdinwood.livejournal.com]

Yay volleyball! I've been playing sometimes with the Zenrin volleyball group, but it's super-extra-casual. I mean, I had enough feeling awful next to Mark & Eric et. al., but this is a bit too much. They don't even get the net up to women's height! When I can get my whole hand over the net standing flat-footed, the net is too low.

At least they seem to understand the bump-set-spike concept! Maybe I can slowly convince them to raise the net a little bit on the practice net at least.

[tokuchitoua.livejournal.com]

Who knows? Perhaps you'll help the coach out and help bring the team to the regionals!

You may think I'm kidding, but I think it'd be cool to be a coach!