End of Winter
Well maybe not officially, but to me, the end of
winter is signaled by the first day that is so nice you want to go outside AND
actually do go outside and enjoy the day. Sorry to all those work-a-holics that
live in a year round cold desolate winter. You guys need to get out there!
That day in Shanghai was yesterday. It was so nice
out that I went and played basketball at my local courts at Xujiajui park.
There were quite a lot of people playing and the games were pretty good. I
played for about 2 hours and today am realizing just how old I've gotten. Lots
of aches all over.
I also learned some
new Chinese that I can apply to my game. So apparently the mandarin equivalent
of "my bad" is (wo de) which is translated as "my". I'm sure that will come in
handy. That plus (hao qiu) "good ball" is probably all I need for a while.
Score always seems to be kept in Shanghainese, which for now is just out of my
league. It pretty much means that I need to play each point like its the last
one because it actually could be the last point. I'm always surprised when all
the sudden people are leaving the courts... then it hits me. Oh yeah, that must
be the end of the game.
Posted: Wed - March 9, 2005 at 06:23 PM