hopefully getting betta....

well... still sick... been eating the medicine which my host family gives me... skipped lessons today for like 2 reasons.. one... wasn't feeling great in the morning so decided to sleep in more.... and the second.. going for the waseda keio baseball game which has been postponed to today... went with Hikaru, Yae and her friends.. really quite interesting... Japanese guys cheerleaders are reallllly cute! haa... as in their dance... not the cute cute.. their dance is like sooooo defferent... dun think u can find it anywhere else in the world... welll... imagine the slam dunk character dancing.. something like tat.. haa...

the soukeisen (aka the Waseda-Keio Battle) was really interesting... the team started with 4-3, waseda 3 from yesterday's game.. then it was still a close fight... but.. oh well.. got trashed this game sia... the score was like 8-1, 1 to us.. still... it was interesting to cheer and stuff... for example, when our team is pitching, there are various signals the cheerleaders make us to... hand signals like 3 strike, strike, change etc etc.. was quite interesting to see everyone do it though... when it's our turn to bat... everyone stands up and cheer non stop till we change over... and if we score.. we dance... haa... that's the simple explanation.. u have to see it to understand it... but but.. was really fun cheering even though i dunno the songs.... some were pretty simple though... and the cheerleaders were like woah.... the guys got 'sei' the gals can dance.. the gals even did one of those 'bring it on' cheerleading... sugoi ne....

the one thing that caught my attention is when the final batter (us) missed the ball...and thus game over.. up to that very point, the cheerleaders continuing to hope that they can pick up from the 8-1 lost.. they cheered and cheered.. u will never have guessed that we were the losing one... they continue to put in their fullest into the cheering, the cheerleaders, the bandm and the audience... but at the exact moment we lost... there was a marked silence... while Keio erupted with estasy... u were suddenly hit by the fact that we lost... it was hard and bitter... yet... the students took it with pride... silent defeat yet standing tall... was really woah... something u wont get to see elsewhere i feel... i stood there and immersed myself into the atmosphere... i felt the loss.. i felt the winner's joy... it was really amazing....