And so with today’s game, our volleyball season comes to an end. I would like to say it was one of the most fun intramural sports experience I’ve had so far. First of all a huge thanks to Matt, Matt, Matt (see a pattern there?), David, Andrew, Vanessa and Linda for a whole lot of fun games. We had a bunch more people on our roster, but these are the ones that made it every time, and considering we won 3 of our 6 games with only 5 people playing, that counts

Our last game was close. We started off by winning the first set 25-13, and losing the second set 22-25. I think maybe we could have had the second set, we just got off to a slow start, and when we started working them again we were just a bit too far behind. We lost the tie breaker set 13-15. As you can see, it could have gone our way. But I’m not even angry, I’m being so sincere right now… (is that song ever going to get old, nah!).

What I also want to talk about is teamwork and fun. And the reason it comes up is simple. Today, we had fun. Which I feel is a lot more important than the experience that 4 people got on the opposing team. Yep, that’s right, after the first set, they literally almost sat 4 people on the sides and definitely didn’t play them in the tie-breaker set. I mean, yes, I would have liked them to play their weaker players as it means we probably would have definitely won. But that’s not it. Who makes a team with friends and tells their own friends to not play just for the win. That mentality never made sense to me. Ever. We lost, and I’m sure every person can say it was close and they personally had fun. Sure those 4 may have won, but were they even part of the team in the first place?

Hopefully we can get most of this team together for maybe next fall. It would be pretty awesome, we were all kinds of sweet sauce by the end of the season, and half of us can’t even jump to reach the top of the net! XD

It’s like 1:30am. I’m trying to finish laundry. I am sooooo tired from the last few nights of fire alarms, prank phone calls, prank door buzzers and people playing football in a snowstorm outside of my windows. Tomorrow is a big day. I have a Public Speaking class persuasive speech to deliver. I am actually really looking forward to it, but it took me a long time to pick what topic I wanted to do and I don’t feel as ready as I’d hoped I would be at this point.

I think I’m going to take tomorrow morning off from another class and polish this speech, it’s 35% of my mark in that course and I actually feel like I want it to be meaningful beyond just that mark. Maybe I’ll try and post it at some point, who knows, I like to improvise so much during speeches that it may not even be what I end up delivering XD

It was Alice’s birthday recently, for those of you that read and know her, hint, hint.

Oh, we played another volleyball game with our floor team today. We were off to a rough start as we’ve not played since before reading week. Amazingly we’ve had the most people out since the first game and actually had two people to rotate, which made things easier. The game was in a different gym though and there were games all around and we kept having to restart because a stray ball would end up in my or my teammates feet, annoying. The coolest thing though is that Yuichi, who was my Japanese TA, was playing on our opponents team. I gotta say he’s really, really good and a lot of times when I thought we totally had a point, he’d run out from the other side of the court and somehow get it in this amazing one hand dive. It definitely made me be like “Ok, Sergey, you gotta step it up. Don’t suck!” — which was a lot of fun. We had this amazingly long rally where I think the ball went over at least 10 times and we finally, finally got the point after a lot of effort.

As is true of our team, we lost the first set. I think we spent more of it remembering how to play and talking to each other, haha, we’re so pro! The second set we were definitely down, but then we came together and squeaked in a 26-24 victory, tight. There was a lot of cheering, high fiving, double high fiving and general celebration In the 3rd and deciding set we started off really well by losing our serve and going down 8 to 10, then 8 to 12 then 9 to 14. Oh this was going to be rough. But in true team “as long as it’s over” style we managed to put off screwing up a serve or losing a point and brought it all together with a one point win!

Oh well, I should run and take a shower now. I’m pretty sure I smell. And then of course I’ll feel wide awake when I actually need to be sleep. Sigh to that. Cya!