How is this legal?!?!

So today is class match...again. Apperantly my school likes to have class match whenever there is a free day where my school feels like we don't need to study lets just force the student to play sports. It's tsuyu (or rainy season) so the chances of it raining were really high but we decided to go through with it anyhow.

I have never seen hand ball in my life and the girls of the first year were going to play it. I've seen the kids play soccer and volley ball before so I was content without watching it. Also the 2nen boys were going to play basketball but since that was in the gym apart from all the other sports I didn't really watch it.

I did start off watching with the hand ball girls and forced them to talk to me a bit. I was happy two girls from class six kept on trying to talk to me because normally I have the worst lessons in that class. I mean painfully horribly bad lessons. Yet, the girl was really jazzed to talk so I did. Later on class 2 girls insists I cheer for them so I thought, eh they asked why not. So I go on and cheer for them, bad idea because later on they play against class 7 a class I really like, basically my best class. Oh well.

I also try to check out softball, but my lord inept softball is the worst thing to watch in the world. Its SUPER slow, nothing ever happens, the girls suck at pitching and hitting so it lands up with like 3 balls, 5 fouls and 2 strikes, and then 5 minutes later the girl gets a hit it comically goes through the pitchers legs and all sorts of madness ensues. While periodically really funny it was INSANELY boring.

So I go back to watching the girl's hand ball. 2kumi girls lose, and I decide to cheer for class 8. Its a very random decisions but I decide to cheer because it looks like they are going to lose and I like cheering for the underdog. So during a game with class 7, which is a strong class girls start getting hurt like insane. I mean hand ball is not that tennis like sport where you use your hand to hit a squishy ball against a wall, its this intense FULL CONTACT rugby like game. The rules are silly, you have to bounce the ball like basketball, but you throw the ball into a net guarded by a goalie like soccer. Though the net is very simular to soccer, you must jump when you throw it...its kinda strange. But tackles (not legal) often occure and the girls got full on contact.

So soon a super genki fun girl I enjoy talking to get hurt. Though shes the manager for the track and field team she is RAPING at this game. She basically the top score getter in her team, and she appears to pull her calf. Its obviously painful but she get injured right at the break, it looks bad but before I know it shes back out. And everytime she scores she looks to be in INTENSE pain. Amazingly through all this she is still smiling.

In the end their team wins, but they have to play another TWO GAMES! The next one, their other top scorer injures her arm after a girl runs in to her during a score chance. She drops into the floor ouch! Another girl cuts open her lip, but decided to keep on playing since another girl has split open her under eye area. Whats worse is ANOTHER girl pulls her calf. This girl tries to fight but isnt as strong as genki girl.

Genki girl is still playing and in the final game I decide holy shit no one is attempting to help her. The teachers think well even though shes on the ground rolling in pain the fact she keeps on going back into the game means shes ok. So I go and get ice, and when I give it to her in the break she says shes fine. WHAT! Her teams mates are so worried they are like forcing the ice onto her leg. Its crazy! Their team is leading and in the final minute of the game on a point chance she once again lands hard on her foot. Her friend basically drags her out of the game. The game ends and they win! And this girl is in tears at first I think its because shes SOOO HAPPY they have won, but no later on I find shes BAWLING because she couldn't last to the very end.

I mean she played for basically an hour on a pulled calf, and yet she stood there in the middle of the field crying, bawling, a lot of the girls on the winning team walked off without smiles but grimaces of pain. The male class mates are cheering and whooping around, but most of the girls were asking for water, ice, and mirrors to assess their injuries. Did I mention it had started down pouring in the last game and everyone was soaked, most teacher ran into the shelter but seeing the kids playing their hearts out I stood out in the rain. In the end the genki girl was standing with her friend BAWLING in the middle of the feild, in the pouring raint, it was like a scene from a bad movie.

Feeling a bit bitter, I tried to cheer genki girl up and through her tears she managed a smile. But wow, how is this legal! 2 split lips, 2 pulled calves, a cut under the eye, and an injured shoulder they had won. And as they limped off the field in the POURING RAIN I once again wondered, HOW THE HELL IS THIS LEGAL?!?!?!

On the softball ground the winning teams were facing off when a sudden FREAK DOWN pour started, they all headed into the one shelter in the middle of the field, but they were essentially stuck. The rain was not only fierce eventually half the girls had to pull up the supports and move it to accommodate the teachers and remaining girls. It was insane, again wow this is legal?!! Why do we keep on doing this?! Its funny the girls who were winning for the softball in the end landed up stuck in the pouring rain, while the "losers" were nice and dry in their classes eating.

I can't believe they do this, and tomorrow I will ask the girls of class 8 if it is really worth it. Somehow I can't believe it. I may post pics......maybe, maybe... as a note I actually have very few, most were videos and its kinda bimyou, but hopefully you can get the feel.

Non- Rant w00t!

So the past 4 or so posts have essentially been rants (some more cleverly disguised than others.. o.0) So today I decided the post on some non-rant things. Of course things other than school life goes on in Japan. And what kind of expat living in Japan would I be if I did not post on the DEATH WEATHER!!!!!!!

So a lot of Japanese people consider Hawaii's weather to be "All-year round summer". Knowing this I have no idea why they come to my State. Japan's summers are the worst things I've experienced....in my life! I mean its so hot and sticky you can see it in the air. It's like San Francisco fog, but instead of cold and wet (and note, the hotter it gets the more moisture can be held in the air) its hot and disgusting!

My friend from England taught me a word, minging, it means disgusting. It's a bit hard to explain but every time its death hot/humid (and they always come in pairs) he uses this word. And doesn't it just sound icky? So with that I've felt like a giant disgusting monster, sweating up a storm.

For this reason aloung with the fact I swear the Japanese themselves do not sweat (I figure from years of natural selection, where only the least disgusting non-sweaters can get mates in the summer time) I have had to buy arm-pit pads. Thats right, its much akin to those things you stick in your undies when your on the rag, except! their for your arm pits!

More proof that the Japanese themselves don't sweat is these arm-pit pads are not easy to find. I saw them by chance last year but since I came to Japan in August (the tail end of DEATH HOT) I didn't think I needed it. Also before I stopped to plugging up my arm pits with pads, I actually did try Japanese antiperspirant. It did not work out so well, as in it didn't work at all. A bad thing since I thought oh I'm using the antiperspirant, I'll wear my gray shirt today! Man, one of the worst idea's ever.

Also, I do not think I am a sweaty beast, in Hawaii I NEVER used antiperspirant, or deodorant. And I didn't sweat much at all. Then again I do have a unique physiology, I don't sweat at all until I hit a certain critical mass and then its like the flood gates open and I'm a sweaty mess.

Well, anyhow that my current aside, so now armed with my armpit pads I can now dare to wear such sexy numbers as uniqlo light blue shirt number 2. (As a note my fashion sense has failed to improve in Japan..)

Another random aside before I go, yesterday was the Fourth of July, and while I do not fancy myself as patriot I went to a mini party to celebrate, and all I can say is damn is Yoshii Machi far, and holy crap I should not do that when I KNOW I have to make two lesson plans and have 3 classes back to back in the morning. That aside, I have to say it went pretty well considering but I now have a headache.

Oh, and one last thing, my parents are coming holy crap! My apartment is a mess, I still need to get stuff for them. So all I can really think about now is getting my party on, because once they hit, I will be doing anything but partying. (most likely crying in the corner)