Lotus Garden

An entirely new sort of basketball match

It was the first time for me to meet the basketball match since I had transferred to a new work unit. What surprised me most was that the colleague in charge of this match found me and said: “Could you take part in it?” “Why ask me?” I thought to myself, “Since I am new here, no one knows I have once been a basketball player when in college.” “If no one is willing to participate in it, I will support your work.” Jokingly I replied. “Not on one, but we think you are tall and recommended by someone~!” Considering I am fresh, it is not suitable to refuse the assigned task. “Oh, all right!” reluctantly I promised. Then he added: “Another thing you need to know is that there is only one female player in each team.” “Ah!” I uttered a surprising shout! I haven’t joined in such a quite new kind of match, just remembering when playing with girls in college, we were like fighting, even ignoring some rules, which was so funny. But as for the entirely new sort of basketball match, I couldn’t imagine what scene it would be!

The first match would begin the next afternoon. I changed for the sports clothes paid out, feeling myself so lithe and full of vigor. Meanwhile, it seems the suit of expensive sports clothes drew much admiring eye-sight from female colleagues, which rendered a sense of pride welling up in my bosom instead of simply being perfunctory to finish a task.

With a whistle blown, the whole match began, I had thought leisurely playing is ok for us two female players. Yet how could I expect that girl in the opposite team should play with all her might and seriously, which reduced me to exerting my utmost strength. What’s worse, the male players didn’t show any care to me. When I controlled the ball, they defended me just as defending males, so that it was very hard for me to run and attack. But still one boy unwittingly walked out of bounds when I defended him. When the match finished, others made a joke with him: “Seems your eyes just fell on our beauty, forgetting the boundary!”, which set the stadium rocking with laughter!

In the following days, there will be at least three matches waiting for me. It seems that in the mixed sports match, it is just like in the fierce competitive society, sometimes your need to forget your sex, taking on your wits and power to fight like a male!
　

On the bbs of voe, God arranged me to know many warm-hearted and great writers. Galaxy, a great one who can read any reader’s heart and many wonderful replies of hers poured onto my wonderland, which provoked me to write more; RedRedRose, famous for her love poems and a productive poet; Alice-yaya, an extremely kind and lovely girl; Also the great boss CalmSea and another splendid one, lavendercc~~! As a novice I obtain a lot from them, meanwhile I surely realize there must be a long way for me to come to a certain level. When searching for and scaning my poems again on the bbs, in which though childish words were employed in some of them, yet I know I harvest a lot and also they record my course of writing practice, and part of indelible memory in my life~~! So my next gratitude should be shown to the great voe~!