joined the rugby team

So soccer has taken a break for the new year (Chinese that is). Well, we didn’t have a league or scrimmage game this weekend so I decided that I would go out and play with the newly formed rugby team. So I am thinking that we are just going out to play some friendly rugby. Well, this was not the case. Like they set up drills and formations and we did a lot of stuff that I didn’t think that I was going to be doing. I figured that we were just going to go out and pass the ball backwards and tackle each other. Not sireeee. This was a 3-hour practice session We started off with a drill called touch which is to warm up the legs by playing rugby, but just touch (hence the name). Then we divided into two groups: Backs and Forwards. Now, the forwards are the brutes of the team where they just tackle and go nose to nose with the other team by trying to rough them up. And the backs are more strategic by trying to move the ball up the fields by calling out plays and other stuff. Luckily, the captains saw me as a back. I was glad as I did not have to get hit every two to three seconds. And when they saw me as a back I got to be the FULLBACK. This means that I am the last man on offense. And if we turn the ball over, then I am the last man on defense….( which means that if I the guy with the ball gets to me and I don’t tackle him, then it is a score for the other team.) And also,  if I get the ball then there that means I should be scoring. I normally don’t get the ball that often but I am usually just supposed to run the ball as far up as I can and not pass to other people. Now, as this was my first practice, I don’t know if they want me to stay in that position or move to someplace else. But I do think that I showed enough to earn a starting position in our up coming match against the team from ChengDu. So the ChendDu (the capital of Sichuan province) city has had a team for a while now and ours is newly formed (like 4 months old). Our match is set for March 3^rd, and our soccer league doesn’t start up again until March 4^th. So I am pretty happy about that.
On a side note, I have not been this sore since college soccer. I have scrapes all over my leagues because the ground was ssssoooo hard and bruises all over my body from getting hit…..BUT IT WAS SSSSOOOO MUCH FUN!!!! Also, the week before I went, a guy got a broken nose….