Ipswich Town's Championship Position - 17th
Currently Reading - Maus by Art Spiegelman
Right now, it's a Wednesday afternoon at 2PM, I've finished my lectures for the week, I have no contact hours with my lecturers for five days so I guess you could say the weekend has begun, but the reading never stops. (Not that that's a bad thing)
The past week term has been spluttering into first gear, with introductory seminars and a slow realisation that this is my final semester as a student in education, it's incredibly exciting but equally terrifying. Oh well, this quarter life crisis can be put on hold for now.
Last Saturday, at around 2PM, the mighty footballing titans of Aberystwyth University first team took on the equally formidable Pen-y-Bont in a clash that would go down in history, as a game that did indeed happen. My flatmate Tom was playing and it used to be quite a regular thing to see him play, last year, but what with work and general procrastinating, that hasn't happened so much recently. The match was a thrilling 2-0 win for Aberystwyth University but would it be equally as exciting as the Welsh korfball games that would be happening the day after? Hold your horses, I'm about to tell you.
Arriving early in the morning (early for a student), I was a little nervous, knowing we'd be up against two Cardiff University teams and one Cardiff City club, but I was happy to be playing korfball for the first time in just under two months.
Our three games ended sadly in defeats, our closest game was losing 4-6 against Cardiff University's third team. There was a small ray of light in the fact that we came away with the win in that game, but only because they admitted to fielding an illegible player, someone from the first team, not their fault, they just didn't have enough players.
The day of playing gave me a pretty achy condition for the next two days and it's only today that I've been able to get out of bed with out the accompanying groan.
This week has been dominated pretty wholeheartedly by korfball, with the recruitment fayre yesterday, whereby, despite it being a very quiet, we had a few people pretty keen to sign up and come to our session this Friday 6-7:30. On that note, if anyone's reading this looking to join a sport, I'd definitely recommend this one, through korfball I have made some of my closest friends, the sport keeps me active and the socials each week create a friendship group that are incredibly close both on and off the court. Tonight's social is Red, red, red, we are the Red Kites (Google it) and as a result, we're dressing head to toe in red and crawling (maybe literally) from one pub to another through the town.
Here are some photos taken from the last week (mainly korfball. Again, sorry.)
Tom styles it past the Pen-y-bont number nine
Wonder shot (Aberystwyth are in charcoal)
Another picture from the game
And another
And another
I thought it's just best to mention, Ipswich Town lost last night to Derby County 0-3, sliding three places, potentially more depending on who wins tonight, makes me a little worried for the next few games, I just hope we'll still be in the Championship next season.
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