2 posts tagged “rugby”

i think i must have missed something. argentina beating france. again. by a lot. in rather a pitiful showing by the french. i am getting seriously worried for tomorrow evening's game! but, the bokkes will prevail (fingers crossed).

In other news: my job is taking over my life. i'm not really complaining, cause let be honest, i live in gaza, there is not a hell of a lot else to do but work. but 13 hour days are long and demanding. but at least i get to do mostly cool stuff. and i get to meet an ambassador this week! eek! a bit exciting i suppose.

i had all of this cool stuff to say but now i am not really motivated to write. i was good today. i had a nice home day. sometimes its good to just spend time by yourself. i managed to sleep late, until a whopping 0900. its sad when sleeping in means getting up then. of course, since i usually get up at 0600 and am at work by 0700, 0900 really is sleeping in.... and i finally made it up to the roof during daylight hours! its magnificent up there. tomorrow i am going to take my camera with me. i went up to work out, god it felt good to actually do something. kind of energises you for the rest of the day. it was also fun to watch all of the men fishing in the shallows. and a bit sad to realise that they have to do that and the impact that its going to have on the environment. already the fish market in gaza is showing the adverse signs of the fishermen not being allowed any more than 6nm off shore.

and then i had a brief fight with my vacuum cleaner. i mostly won. although the head of the sucking-bit is still being a little difficult. but i managed to vacuum! its nice when you can outsmart the machines in your life. that was not so much the case last night. the gas oven definitely got the better of me. but i still have all limbs and my eyebrows. quite an achievment considering the poofs of flaming gas that were happening. apparently your suposed to light the match and hold it in the oven and only turn on the gas. i will give this a shot tomorrow and see what happens. i think i will need quite a bit of luck to emerge unscathed again.

and then the rest of the day was taken over by tidying up, watching obscene amounts of downloaded tv shows, and reading a trashy book. somehow i just cannot bring myself to read intense, academic books right now. mostly because i am living everything in the books. i also did some work, i couldn't help myself, it was just sitting there and it had to get done, so i did it.

and that was mostly my day....i just finished watching the rugby match with a few friends, i think we are going to try to plan something more extravagant for tomorrow's final. but its really very quiet here over the weekends. i don't quite know what to do with myself. i am so used to always having something to do, to having every last minute scripted out. its quite difficult to relearn how to live without having to worry about school and classes. this could take a lot of time and effort.

and on that note, i am going to bed. because it looks lovely and comfortable. and comfortable is good right now. since everything here is so....different. not uncomfortable, but different and a bit strange. not bad strange, but just....different.

its been another day where words cannot suffice to explain it all. it has been truly fantastic. there are no other words. there is so much to say, and i have not the energy, nor the capability to explain. i will try to post pictures. it is simply beyond belief.

and my bokkes won!!! i knew it would happen but i am still soooo happy!!! and oddly enough seem to be a decent tutor in the methodology of rugby! at least i didn't receive any criticism for my explanations this evening, that could of course been due to the fact that those i was trying to teach were more interested in a) the behinds of the players, b) if they were wearing any padding and c) the size of their thighs.

and that song is still stuck in my head....and the video. its really well done. i wish i had someone to look at that way. le sigh. life is never fair. and i have to room to complain! i am the happiest i have been in a while, but that doesn't mean that i don't miss certain things and certain people. nothing ever comes together in its entirety, that would make life too easy and boring. i admit to liking a challenge. but every now and then i would like the option to choose the easy route.