久しぶり、ね？ (transl.: it's been a while!)

So, yeah, I've been a loser and definitely haven't updated. In a while. I haven't even uploaded all of my pictures to my Flickr account yet, and the last ones I have uploaded aren't really complete as far as details and descriptions. Oh well. しかたがない.

It's been tough trying to find time to do other things I want to do because of the constant stream of activities here. It's incredibly fun, but incredibly exhausting if you're not careful. I ran out of steam today and watched another new episode of the Office, which was relaxing. But 2 minutes in to the third episode, I got a call to go play ultimate frisbee at the soccer field.

Now, back in Avon, I don't usually go out to play frisbee. I know there are lots of people who are faster than me, and I can be quite the butterfingers sometimes, and everybody there knows it. So usually when I play, I don't actually get to play a lot because no one will pass me the damn disc. I was kind of tired and feeling kind of down when I got the call, too, but I figured I would give it a shot.

I headed out to the fields, and we had just enough people to do 3-on-3 game, which meant my teammates had to pass to me, regardless of my actual ability!

And I found I wasn't terrible. I mean, I had a streak where I dropped like 5 passes in a row, but other than that I didn't do that bad. ^_^ I knocked one of the guys over a couple of times, actually ^_^;; Whoops.

After our first game, a couple of the OU students left. But by that time, an English Chubu professor, Patrick-sensei, and a female teacher from the nearby high school had come to the field to toss around a frisbee by themselves. The high school teacher didn't really speak English, and when we asked her if she had played ultimate before, she said no. After they had warmed up a bit (and from their warm-up you could see this was something they did often), they joined us for another 3-on-3 game, which was just as fun and exhausting. About an hour later, we wrapped things up and as we were agreeing to meet again next week, Patrick-sensei told us the high school teacher is on Japan's national ultimate frisbee team. Whaaaaa? No wonder she never dropped the frisbee.

We took a picture at the end of our game. Hopefully I can snag a copy from Patrick-sensei ^_^