Here at the Miyazu BoE we're a special lot of people, at least my people, the Waruiko-chan (Naughty Children) Team of the left side of the room. Our days are filled with the simple pleasures of life, making fun of the Iiko-chan (Goody Two-shoes) Team of the right side of the room, drinking parties, lunches at Konpira Udon, drinking tea, trips away together and generally being a disturbance. We don't aspire to great heights, so when the City Hall announced an inter department volleyball match, we the Waruiko-chan Team put our hands up to represent the best of the Miyazu BoE.
We showed up at the city gym on Wednesday, 16th November at 6pm, with our team of mostly women headed by our fearless male leader, Kawahara-san. Kawahara-san automatically assumed naming rights and so we were thoughtfully named Otokomae (The Handsome Men). We turned up a litlle early to practice and to make a whole lot of necessary noise while the organisers made there usual sportsmanship speeches to the crowd assembled. Then it was time to show our foolhardy mettle. Nobody else in our team had played volleyball as a proper team sport so it was every person for themselves which annoyed me at first but then I realised we were the Waruiko-chan Team and weren't there to win, but there as entertainment for everyone, but mostly ourselves so our huge loss was our huge victory. And it was well worth it – we got free tea.
We finished off the night with a party in WK Team fashion at Sankaiya, the izakaya in Mipple, which involved the usual WK Team shenanigans and a giant 1 metre long tube of beer propped up on the table. It's good to be naughty.
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