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This weekend was a tennis weekend. On Saturday I went to Yoski's house and played tennis for 3 hours with his parents. It was good fun but quite tiring. I then went back to their house and his mother had laid out a tremendous feast of grilled beef, fried pork cutlets in batter, deep fried shrimp and sweet potato, fruits, and she had even made a Bakewell tart for the English boy!Yoski came back from work and we ate our fill then played games in his room. The best game was Momotaro Dentetsu-Momotaro's railway line. It's a dice game a little like Monopoly, but in this game you have to travel to different places in Japan. We went to Kagoshima and Kanazawa. On the way, you can buy land and grow produce which in turn reaps you profits. It's good fun! Yoski had also finished arranging Silverhill's first single, "Backspace", so we listened to that a 100 times. It sounded awesome. It'll be available to listen to soon. At night, we went for a nice walk around his neighborhood, past some Yakuza's house with barbed wire fences. It was really nice to walk around in the countryside for a change. All countryside reminds me of Le Pin, in France: the quietness and the smell of trees.
Yoski's parents had asked me to play in match for their tennis club, so I stayed the night in a room full of clocks ( the absent Yoski's sister doesn't want to be late for work, I think) and the next day, once again, I found myself on the tennis court. I played a singles match against a 25 year old and, for the first time, realised that I was not the young one anymore, and got thrashed 6-1!!But I think I should have won. I just kept losing the last points, that's all. Hmm. After the singles match I had a doubles match, and we were all square at 2-2 when the skies opened up and cried- we got absoltuley soaked!!
I'm really tired now and feel as though I've done enough exercise for the year. My rib cage feels as though it's been ripped apart, my legs feel like tree trunks, my arms are too heavy to lift, and my face is sun burnt. Ah, the merits of exercise, eh. Think I might take it up. Hmmm. Let me think about that.........
posted by PA on Sunday, August 31, 2003
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