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My last personal post described how I was a lazy man on the weekends with no life except for watching videos. I`d now like to shatter this hurtful illusion by describing how I played five a side football with Reiko`s friend`s husband and his workmates for three hours on Sunday.

It was good to get playing football again as it is such a long time since I`ve played it. This means that I am awful once more. It`s not fair. I`ve heard about Americans who come to Japan and play baseball in the local teams regret that when they go back to their motherland, their batting averages get substantially worse due to the superiority garnered from being from the country which invented it. Being a newbie to the great sport of baseball I am unsure whether that means they go up or down. (Is it down?) That`s the problem with baseball. There are too many confusing statistics such as RBI`s which mar what is otherwise an excellent game. Go the mighty Hanshin Tigers!

Anyway where I was going with that point is that I have come to Japan and am still getting run ragged by the jozu Japanese. That our team`s highest scoring game came when I played in goal is a case in point. This may be of course due to my lack of practice. I did manage to score two goals overall including a stunning (read flukey) shot from the halfway line. Are you impressed? : )