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Entries from July 1, 2008 - August 1, 2008
University Football Game
My fellow exchange student, the aussie, had invited me to go watch a football game with him and his host mother. I'm talking of a football game here, not that pansy rugby-with-armour Americans play.
We arrived at the station to see the stadium looming before us, and as we walked out, some crazy university student ran at us waving her hands and shouting "Hellooo!!". We though she couldn't possibly be shouting that to us, and mostly ignored her, immediately afterwards wandering what the hell that was. It might seem obvious she was greeting someone else, but from my experience at the Tokyo university festival Japanese university students occasionally do that kind of stuff. At the stadium we were assaulted again, this time by supporters of the two opposing sides, Keio university and Wasuda university, who did their best to make us buy their cheering equipment and support their team. Apparently my friend's host mum had some reason to support Keio, so we went with her judgement, and each bought a pair of inflatable sticks which to whack against each other.
The game started with some formalities such as singing the schools' songs, and presenting the flags of the opposing sides. The first half started well, with Keio scoring two goals in a row, and we stood up and joined arms to sway and cheer and gloat. From then on it was downhill, with Wasuda scoring two goals before the half was over, and our cheerleaders vanishing mysteriously.
Luckily they reappeared for a show during the half time, at the end of which the guys in front of us shouted: "Arigatoo!!!" They were too late to save the day though, as during the final moments of the game Wasuda scored another goal. Despite 3 minutes extra time, the end result was defeat, leaving us sobbing miserably with the Keio university students.
Sakari
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