Seasons of Love

I'm officially no longer a rookie. The season is over and my freshman year is almost done as well. I'm not sure how I'm going to be able to handle not having rugby for the whole summer. The game yesterday was a lot of fun. I got to play in the A side game. That was definitely cool. We lost the first game. Kenny got a concussion from one of the scrums collapsing. She ended up falling upside down on her neck. She's OK but she had to go to the ER which meant that we lost her and Nelly for the second game. I started in the second game. I even got the first hit. That was a great feeling. It instantly took away all of the tiredness that I had from the first game. It was fierce too. I also caused my first injury. I tackled U of I's tighthead pretty well because she messed up her ankle and had to be helped off of the field. I was pretty proud of me. I did get pretty sunburned even though I put on sunblock. I have a lovely rugger tan from just below my knee cap to about four inches up my thigh. I got a few speckly bruises but nothing too dramatic. I also broke a few blood vessels from scrumming on my shoulder. I spent most of today napping because I was so wiped out from yesterday. I did study geography and read through some of my Chinese. I also went through my T'ai Chi form three times on the lawn between Niemeyer and Pew. I got a few strange looks from that. Meh.