 | ~In a mad world only the mad are sane.~ ( trissy) wrote,
@ 2005-08-06 20:15:00 |
| Current mood: |  nauseated |
| Current music: | eye of the tiger |
Another week has passed without me having a job and/or money. I am no longer frustrated, though disappointed in our system. Cutting people’s money to the max, all because of our treasury. Insaneeee, we are loaded. Other them America. They are almost broke. Heh. In any case, Monday a job-interview. Fingers crossed. Pc test thingy. Iek.
But today we helped with a sporting event, it’s called kaatsen. A fav sport to the locals here. A blast. We sold drinks, soda’s and sandwiches. Heaps of fun!!! The sun was shining, although it was kinda cloudy. We even had a heavy rain-storm. But that didn’t spoil the fun. It makes the grass even more slippery so that you have great sliding. We also had a power black-out. Imagine this, an sporting event, about 400 people, and the electricity fails on yah. No coffee. People here just live on coffee and the weather was kind-of chilly so they were desperate for coffee.
The company was called, too much devices in a socket, the electricity company fixed. Very funny. Up to 3 times a black-out. But then it was fixed. Heh. My sis and I helped people for about three hours, then another came to take it over.
The Game Kaats is played by teams of three players, each concisting of one server and two field players, one of whom must also serve. The object of the game is to accumulate kaatsen. A kaats is the place from which the kaats ball is returned; the place is marked with a white block (first kaats/k1). Depending on the score the teams switch after one or two kaatsen have been made. The server goes to the field and the field team then has to do the serving. The field team-players try to strike past the kaatsen one by one. If they're successful two points are earned per kaats; if not, it's two points for the server. Then the field-team players again tot try to get new kaatsen while the server tries to hinder them. Points also can be earned directly by the player gaining them alone or through the errors of the opponent. Include are: • A faulty serve: 2 points • A serve that can't be dealt with (ace): 2 points • Serving over the side-lines ("kwaadslag"): 2 points • Serving over the upper-line (behind the serving box): 2 points
Telegraph pole, ball and kaats gloves
In scoring, kaats is similar tot tennis. A kaats game is over after six firsts. A first is scored when 8 points are reached, the points being awarded in incremements of two. Thus 2, 4, 6 and then the first. After each first the counting of points begins again. Two firsts are called a play. The points are then hung on the telegraph pole in the following way: • red, 2 plays (= four firsts) and two points • white, 1 play, 1 first (= three firsts) and 4 points. A full telegraph pole shows the score of five firsts for both teams and 6-6. Whoever gets the next 2 points has won the game. Kaats is played with a ball weighing + 24,00 grams and with a diameter of 4 cm which is covered in leather and filled with calves' hair. Since the ball is rather hard it's necessary to wear a kaats glove to give the hand protection.
and now? now we had our barbeque and now i am stuffed, i ate till i almost puked...hehehehehehe. *runs away to toilet* AAHHHHHHH
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