Sunday, November 26, 2006
hurray fot volleyball :-D
would like to mention at the satart of this post that i'm not drunk, just trying to type with only one hand cause the other one's currently stuck in a glass of cold water...
we won we won!!! it seems they haven't won a match in ages, so everyone was very chuffed when we won both matches :-D of course i claimed it was cause they didn't have me with them before... ;-) and i got to play the whole time :-D
i got a bit freaked out at the beginning, when i realised that not only was i playing from the start, and playing middle, i was also serving first... i just feel really nervous the first time i play for a new team, worried i'll screw up and never be put in the game ever again... but it went really well. of course i screwed up a couple of times, but we all did. we played quite well most of the time and the atmosphere was great (except in the second set, so of course we lost that one).
the only really annoying thing was that i managed to screw up the middle finger of my right hand in the first set (of seven). of course it had to be the hand i serve and strike with... i dived for the ball, fell far short (see, if i'd got the ball at least it would have been worth it), and tried to bury my finger in the floor... :-( so the rest of the game was agony. to serve i had to tell myself 'i can take any pain' before i could make myself throw the ball up. (i know it's not true, it just helps me take the minor amount of pain necessary. i don't ever want to experiene the pain of labour for instance. although that's mainly cause after the pain you've got kids... eek!) for the second match i taped two fingers together, i was a bit worried it'd screw up my passes (or sets, or whatever they're called), but towards the end of the first game i hadn't been doing them at all anymore, just whacking the ball with both hands together like in beach volleyball. but it was fine, there was barely any difference to having all my fingers free. of course i've never been completely in control of my passes anyway, so that's probably why i couldn't tell any difference ;-)
my serves were ok, some very good ones (not many, but enough to impress) and i only hit two or three out the back, and none hit the back wall, that's a very good tally (for me)
i got swapped round a couple of times between middle and outside, and i managed quite well (ok, in the last set i forgot at one (or two) point(s) that i waqs middle again cause i did play outside in most of the sets, but i didn't screw anything up cause of it luckily). so that's great, i'm learning that, getting practise in both positions. hurray!!!
what a wonderful day :-D
and now we're going to see casino royale. more hurrays!!!! hip hip hurray! hip hip hurray! hip hip hurray!!! :-D
we won we won!!! it seems they haven't won a match in ages, so everyone was very chuffed when we won both matches :-D of course i claimed it was cause they didn't have me with them before... ;-) and i got to play the whole time :-D
i got a bit freaked out at the beginning, when i realised that not only was i playing from the start, and playing middle, i was also serving first... i just feel really nervous the first time i play for a new team, worried i'll screw up and never be put in the game ever again... but it went really well. of course i screwed up a couple of times, but we all did. we played quite well most of the time and the atmosphere was great (except in the second set, so of course we lost that one).
the only really annoying thing was that i managed to screw up the middle finger of my right hand in the first set (of seven). of course it had to be the hand i serve and strike with... i dived for the ball, fell far short (see, if i'd got the ball at least it would have been worth it), and tried to bury my finger in the floor... :-( so the rest of the game was agony. to serve i had to tell myself 'i can take any pain' before i could make myself throw the ball up. (i know it's not true, it just helps me take the minor amount of pain necessary. i don't ever want to experiene the pain of labour for instance. although that's mainly cause after the pain you've got kids... eek!) for the second match i taped two fingers together, i was a bit worried it'd screw up my passes (or sets, or whatever they're called), but towards the end of the first game i hadn't been doing them at all anymore, just whacking the ball with both hands together like in beach volleyball. but it was fine, there was barely any difference to having all my fingers free. of course i've never been completely in control of my passes anyway, so that's probably why i couldn't tell any difference ;-)
my serves were ok, some very good ones (not many, but enough to impress) and i only hit two or three out the back, and none hit the back wall, that's a very good tally (for me)
i got swapped round a couple of times between middle and outside, and i managed quite well (ok, in the last set i forgot at one (or two) point(s) that i waqs middle again cause i did play outside in most of the sets, but i didn't screw anything up cause of it luckily). so that's great, i'm learning that, getting practise in both positions. hurray!!!
what a wonderful day :-D
and now we're going to see casino royale. more hurrays!!!! hip hip hurray! hip hip hurray! hip hip hurray!!! :-D
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