Itching for squash

On Wednesday I went to a soiree découverte sports (literal translation: sports discovery night). It was a girls-only event (though "strangely" enough the people in charge were all men) We got to play badminton, squash and football (actually a kind of 2-on-2 indoor football called Jorkyball)

There were more than 40 of us, and not really enough courts, so we were split into three groups to rotate among the three sports. My partner and I started off with badminton, and we played doubles in 7-point matches against all the others. (the 7-point matches were only to let us finish a game and change opponents)

Most of the other girls weren't that good, so we won all matches but one. But there was this girl who, upon coming onto the court, practically barked at us, "You know the rules?", as if we didn't know how to play. I was darn glad when we beat her. She did beat us later, with another partner, but they sure didn't have it easy!

Next we moved on to squash, which I had played once before. There were six or seven of us in a court, and we took turns playing one against one (are there doubles in squash?), with the loser stepping out and leaving her place to the next player. The others stayed against the wall in a corner of the court. So with lots of breaks, it wasn't really that tiring.

However, the last sport, football totally sapped me of my energy...the worst was that I chased the ball all over the place but managed to do next to nothing with it. -_- But I did score a few goals :P Even though it was more out of luck than anything else... Luckily that was the last sport we did, because after that I was absolutely tired out.

After playing, we had dinner in the club (included in the event, which was free of charge, by the way) It was past nine o'clock by the time we finished playing, and probably close to ten when we actually started eating. As a result we left the club after 11pm, yawning and longing to go to sleep. (okay, that last bit was probably only me :P )

All in all, it was a great activity, and I hope they do it again...and I also hope it will be a day when I can actually go! (they're thinking of doing it on Thursday afternoon next time, and if I'm doing my internship I won't be able to go... :/ )

The aftermath of this is that I was sleepy the whole day on Thursday...and that I am really hoping to play squash again. It was really great, a lot like badminton. Though I do wonder how I would divide my time among table-tennis, badminton and squash...seeing as the first two are already taking up so much of my time!