October 27, 2014
Jeremy's October Post
Hey, Jezza here,
October saw the 3rd year students high school footballing life draw to close in the national tournament qualifiers, as well as a trip to Kamakura to give us an insight on our next topic for Japanese history.
Not only this but our training schedule has increased because the process of selecting a new "A" team is now underway.
The start of October saw the yearly national tournament qualifiers, where a loss results in a early goodbye to high school football for the third years. This was exactly the case with our club, which lost the first round of competition in difficult circumstances: two starting members were out due to injury and university entrance exams. This was not the only factor that lead to the teams downfall; we also lacked the capability to play in bad weather which had been demonstrated throughout this year.
With this bad performance came the reality of retiring the old team in search of a new capable team for next year, which has been the talking point of October and will happen in the upcoming months before the announcement in January sometime. However, as I'm still unable to play not much can be done to prove my ability until my injury is healed; however you have to stay positive minded and have a focused plan in order to achieve these goals once you are able to play. This is what I am working on, so when the time comes nothing will stop me!
October was not solely soccer related events, but also the termly tests and an excursion along with it. This time the International group went to Kamakura, absorbing all it's culture and information for the next period we are studying in Japanese history. Whilst we were in Kamakura we visited some temples, shrines and a big Buddha- learning why they were there, and why they were built. Along with the cultural side of things we had a nice lunch adjacent to the beach and overall it was enjoyable day out and a good experience.
Throughout October it has been relatively busy with the tests, team selections and the soccer events but overall it has been an interesting month and relaxing at times.