Teacher Student Touch Rugby

On Thursday, December 11, the teachers played the middle school rugby team in touch rugby. Of the teachers, only 3 had even played rugby before and 2 of those were from Australia. Only 1 western teacher had played before, so we were at a decided disadvantage. After a 5 minute crash course on how to play, it took us another 45 minutes to figure out what we wre doing. This whole offsides rule really got to us. I don't expect anyone from back home to understand what the offsides rule is but it is frustrating when you are trying to figure out how to play. Rugby is a constant sport like soccer, so you do run around the whole time. Thank goodness I've been playing basketball lately or I would have been huffing and puffing the whole time.

Overall, it was a great experience. After halftime, I got into the flow of the game and figured it all out. Touch rugby is not the toughest sport to play, but I was told that real rugby is considerably more difficult. I'll take their word on it. There is an album in the photo gallery of more pictures. Jamie had taken over 150, but we trimmed it down to 32.

I know this post is out of order, but I had uploaded the pictures forgetting that I didn't make a post on it.