Okay Mom, I'll post

Well, this post has been prompted by my mother who insists that the news I recieved this morning was exciting and warranted a post. But, to keep you all in suspense I'm going to fill you in on everything else that has happened in the last couple of months first :)

Well, first of all our trip to Winnipeg was a lot of fun. For some of you it is strange that three sisters would get along well enough to go on a road trip together, and it is a little weird but I'm very glad. My sisters are awesome. I also got to hang out with most of my relatives in Winnipeg. I used to hate going to Winnipeg because it was always so busy and half to time would be spent with people I didn't really know. This year we spent the time with closer relatives, who are all really cool and alot of fun to hang out with and my little cousins are so cute :) I have to say that I look forward to going again, I just have no idea when that will be.

The rest of August was pretty boring. More working and rugby, but not nearly as much rugby. My season was a little frustrating this year. We had a really good start, but then people stopped coming to practice and others disappeared all together so the rest of the season didn't go nearly as well.

Now for the biggest reason I haven't posted since July :) At the beginning of September I tried out for the U of A Pandas Rugby team. I made the team, but oly as a red shirt, essentialy the practice squad, no travelling just lots of practices. The rugby scehdule is a little different from all the other varsity teams. We just play a couple of tournaments, Can West and when we win that, Nationals. More on that later :)

The first bit of school has gone well. I don't do much other then school and rugby right now, but I'm fine with that and it's been a great experience thus far. I'm really enjoying most of my courses so far too :) I'm taking an Intro Anatomy course :):), physiology, Bio (ecology, not as much fun, but it could be worse) a course in Phys Ed that deals with a conceptual approach to teaching Phys Ed, because there's so much to teach and you can't be an expert in everything but you still have to teach it all, and a rugby PAC course. The PAC course has been entertaining. My club coach is the instructor so that's been fun and educational from a coaching perspective as I saw how she introduced certain concepts to people who had never seen a rugby ball before that class. It's also been a bit boring when teaching certain things. I was talking to one friend one day during class and she remarked that I must be so bored. She's standing there trying to put everything together and I'm standing there picking up what is being missed (this was during group presentations). My exams and assingments have been nicely spread out so far so I haven't gone crazy but it might get a little worse in the next couple weeks, hopefully not though.

Now time for my exciting news. Can West, the first tournament, is next weekend and they announced who was travelling this morning and guess who's on the list? ME!!!!!! I've moved up :):):) So on Thursday I get to leave with the team and go to Lethbridge :):) Some history for those who don't know anything about the U of A Pandas Rugby team. THey have been around for 7 years, in that time they have 7 Can West championships and 5 national titles, in other words, we're really good so hopefully that tradition will continue this year:) Well, off to get all the school work done that needs to happen before I leave :) Have a wonderful time and hopefully I'll have time to post about how my weekend goes :)