I am NOT SWISS and I DON'T SOUND SWISS either!

yeay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

went to my first training with the bristol volleyball club. was great fun! :-D their overall level is pretty much the same as my team back home as far as i can see. some are slightly better, some not quite as good, so it works out. i've been ordered to come along and play in the next match :-D they like my serves ;-)

but the terminology is beyond me. i do not speak volleyball english :-( everytime the coach told us to do something i'd stand around looking thick till someone explained (with gestures) what he meant.

at one point he said something like 'we're going to do threes and fours' or some such, i actually have no clue... so the others all go get a ball and take up positions. i'm all 'please tell me what to do, i haven't got a clue what we're meant to do' and they're looking at me weirdly. so gill explained it exactly and it turns out it's what we call 'iischlah' which in direct tranlation means striking in or something similar... and i was standing right in the way (at the net on position 4) no wonder they were looking at me strangely

i can really tell i haven't done any sport for two months! my legs are completely done in. the moment we finished they started shaking like mad :-( feels like i've spent a day at the playoffs instead of just an hour and a half in training...

and i desperately need new shoes. phoned up last night just before alpha, and gill said 'are you coming along tonight', but of course there was alpha... so i went along tonight, but i left my trainers in switzerland (they've got holes...). so i rushed out after work tonight to get some shoes at the mall. nobady told me till afterwards that they don't do sensible sports shoes, only trendy trainers :-( i did the best i could (so i've now got another brand new pair of puma trainers, at least these were only 25 pounds). it was awful! they were totally rubbish, i kept falling over and almost popping out of the shoes. they are not suitable for volleyball at all :-( so i do need a pair of proper sport shoes before next wednesday.

turns out i brought the wrong pair of knee pads. i thought it safe to assume that i'd be more likely to put on weight than not here in the uk, since i absolutely love all the unhealthy food such as the crisps, cadburys chocolate (swiss chocolate is boring..), cakes, just everything... so anyway, i brought my big pair of knee pads. they're slightly to big and slip down when i dive (they were quite impressed with all the diving, i kept hitting the ground (mostly not very successfully), unluckily the floor was so filthy i ended up with grit in my mouth...). well, it seems i haven't put on weight, the knee pads don't fit any better and now my knee is rubbed raw :-(

but i'm not buying new knee pads! i've got three pairs already ;-)

woohoo!!! i've so missed volleyball! yeay!!!

Labels: shopping, volleyball

posted by Vickster at 23:18.