Rugby and KitchenAid

On Sunday afternoon I finally heard back from the captain of the women's rugby team here at Winchester, after two weeks of emailing and calling her. She told me to go ahead and come to Monday night's practice. I'll be honest here--I have not been that nervous in a long time. I literally had no appetite yesterday, which is quite a remarkable feat for me. I guess I had this idea in my mind that since rugby is a bigger sport out here than in the States, most people have played or at least started playing it before coming to Uni. But I was wrong (at least for girls). Turns out the team captain is one of the most experienced girls on the team has the same amount of experience as me--less than two years. So, needless to say, it turned out pretty well. We didn't do any tackling yesterday, just passing and running, but it was great. I'd really been missing rugby and it was awesome to play again. What a great game.

Anyways, not much else happened yesterday. I mostly did some exploring of Winchester. Yesterday as a class all of the American students had to hike out to St. Catherine's Hill (which some of us had already visited the other weekend). On the way back I went through the Winchester City Center and looked through all the shops I hadn't been into yet. It was quite interesting--there are really some adorable little stores here. Unfortunately, as I had guessed and as my teacher confirmed, Winchester is an extremely expensive city--one of the most expensive to live in in England. It's a beautiful old town within an hour's train of London, so there are quite a few commuters here who want a lovely home outside of London but still have a nice job in London, hence the high prices. Good for them, but it kind of stinks for the students. Oh well, I still love it here.

While exploring, I found an adorable kitchen store with a whole shelf full of Kitchen Aids and blenders in different colors. I also found Jenny's kitchen aid, and it was so cute I had to take a picture.



Well, I have to go do some reading for my US History class in an hour. Today in class we're debating the Revolutionary War and whether or not the colonies had a worthy argument for declaring independence... should be interesting.

Random Fact #5: England has no written constitution.