Twinkle twinkle... who's it shining?

do you know what a class match is? it's the term used in iida high school (and i guess it's the same term for other schools as well) for the event in which each class competes with the other classes within the batch in six neck-breaking sports: basketball, volleyball, softball, soft tennis, badminton and table tennis. it's fun, all right, if you're not a bummer in sports as i am. and if girls and boys go into separate categories.

yup, you get to smash into members of the opposite sex if you choose to play the former three sports, and when you choose the latter three, you might end up dodging smashes and light-fast receives instead of actually playing (if you're in a pair of girls facing two well-built guys, that is). i've been through the ilag moments last spring, having lost two matches against two pairs of guys from other classes. my class was 8th place in badminton, and there are eight classes in our batch. got it? good. if you'd bet i cried after the last match, well, you have something to gain. this crybaby cried indeed. -_-

anyway, spring's over, and after summer went by as well, it's autumn now. iida high school students compete in two class matches in an academic year. and yesterday until today, the autumn version of the class match drained all my power. *laughs out loud*

but hey, i maybe a loser when it comes to sports, but i have to admit that i indeed enjoy this season's class match. this time, i played tennis (although i really wanted to play badminton), and i am flattering myself by assuring me that my performance was good enough for someone who learned the rules and practiced service the morning before the match, and practiced receiving during the first match itself. whew, i did gain a ton of shame after all the mistakes i did. i cried after we lost the second match. i just couldn't do the underhand service, so i had to go with the overhead style. the ball passed over the net, all right, but it went either straight (it had to bounce into the opposite side of the side where i release the ball) or out of the court (which happened because i tried to face diagonally so the ball would not go straight). argh! i was so frustrated at myself, and honestly considered myself as the cause of our loss. but my teammates wouldn't hear the end of it. before i could pour out all the apology that i wanted to tell them, they had enumerated all the things that i could do well, saying that those things are more than just being able to play a sport well. i had to admit those compliments made me burst into tears. but, those tears were tears of joy at that time. :)

my tennis team ended up at 7th place (okay, you know how many classes there are), and my class ended up second over-all. basketball got 7th place, badminton and table tennis bagged 1st, volleyball reached third and the softball team settled at 5th. (with my classmate kubota atsumi as the pitcher. she was totally cool! *kilig effect*) we were all surprised with the over-all results; we beat class h, the class that ranked 1st over-all last spring. *yatta!* this time, class e dominated our batch, and i could say that my classmates were also happy for them because they really deserved to be on top! my clubmates also belong to class e, so we had fun chatting along after the class match was over. :)

by the way, we also did relay. my class went last though. -_-

woah, this turned out to be longer than i've expected. guess i'm still having the hang-over of indulging into sports. *laughs*

back to normal school life. *sighs*

wee~! God bless! *peace*

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