My college has an intramural volleyball club on Thursday nights, so I took a volleyball class this past summer to learn how to actually play. The course cost around $300, plus travel, and I even bought volleyball shoes with the intent to keep playing during the semester, so everything came to roughly $450.
But on the first night it started, the only people there were the guys on the Men's Volleyball team (except for one). Don't get me wrong, they were all really kind and supportive of the fact that I am (basically) a beginner, but I guess I had different expectations and got disappointed.
It could be that because they play seriously on the actual team, they want a space to play for fun and do things that normally wouldn't slide in a real game, but I guess I just wanted to play a normal 6v6 game instead of it being 11v7 (for e.g.), as if I'm back in P.E. class in high school or something.
I stopped going after that first night and joined a different club that meets on Thursday nights, but I feel like I wasted so much money on something I really thought would work out. I mean, I could go to the city and join a team or play during open-play nights, but I feel like I'm so "bad" that I'd probably be on the sidelines and never get a chance to play. It'd also cost me time and money to go back and forth to the city from campus, and I'm currently unemployed, so I'm trying to get by on what I have left from my last job.
I've always wanted to play on a Volleyball team since middle school, but something always came up, whether it was the pandemic or having to focus on my classes to get into a good college. Now that I'm in my last year of college, I really want to play volleyball more often, but I guess I didn't like the club's vibe. I still love volleyball and love watching VNL, but it feels like life keeps throwing things at me that keep me from playing the game itself.
At least I learned a new skill :,) Would much rather be average at many skills than a master at just one.