Day two is in the books, though I don’t think anyone actually has a camp log, or perhaps Roshna (our manager) carries one around, or maybe I’ll eventually write a book about my rugby experiences and maybe day two of this camp will make the book. Then it will in fact be in a book. Now I’m rambling.
I am enjoying camp. Of course, I enjoy the rugby and the rugby people. I also appreciate the camp’s format. Though I haven’t been to many of these camps, all of the others have been drills, unit work, meetings, and some live play here and there. This camp is set up to simulate an international tour. We’ve been divided up into teams, as I said in an earlier blog, and we’re playing three full matches over the course of the 10-day-span. All of the drills and unit work we’re doing happens within our respective teams—basically, we have practices.
Today we all played our first match. Team Red played the College All-Americans. The CAA were up at the half, but Red rallied in the second and took the match. We, Team White/the Great Whites/the Sharks, beat Team Blue in our match. Though Blue threatened us early, we held our defensive lines and were able to win ball and counter. Our first score set off a couple more scores and we were up at halftime something like 20-3, or 18-3, or whatever we had to their three (I’m 99.967% sure they had three at the half).
The second half was more of a back-and-forth battle for match control. No team really controlled the half, but I’m pretty sure we outscored them in the second as well…actually, with V scoring about 15 tries, I don’t know how they could have outscored us in any half. Long story short: we won, and we played pretty darned (I need to watch my cursing) good doing so (considering that we’ve only been playing with each other for less than two days.
Right now, I’m a little sore and a little tired (nothing unusual in the rugby world), but I promised pics from the Denver Airport. Unfortunately, my phone happens to be the dumbest smart phone in existence, and I would prefer not to wait on images to upload to this blog anyway, because the wireless is a bit spotty in my dorm room. So, if you’re not too technologically lazy, here are some links to the murals:
Some of these are repeats, and some are parts of the larger murals, but you get the picture. I think my favorite is the gas-mask-Nazi-samurai swatting the peace dove like a fly…and when I say favorite, I’m basing that judgment solely on level of creepiness. The one with representatives from different countries takes a close second. I mean there’s a boy-scout holding a bunch of swords, and at the top, in the middle of the mural, the Fonz makes an appearance (try and find him).
That’s all for now. My bed beckons.
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