St. Peters Rugby

Since having a fling at Brookes Rugby League, I have settled for playing for St. Peters College team. It is great fun, and much more relaxed than the rowing program. A practice on Saturday and Sunday, and match day on a Tuesday, it certainly allows for flexibility. I missed the first two games of the season against Teddy Hall and Jesus due to a persistent knee injury but manged to get some of the game against St. Johns/St. Annes and managed to win. All games have been very close, with us only just winning them. The guys say we are not playing well enough, but I reckon it is mainly because when you play in a bad league (St. Peters was recently demoted) your standard tends to drop. So, I feel that as long as we keep winning, and improve with every game, we will hopefully get promoted again and do some damage.

The socials are probably more important than the game-well not really but are pretty big... Every Tuesday evening starts with fines in the St. Peters College pub, and then we had a crew date last Tuesday which involves another college (Lincoln ladies in this case). Procedure was a curry in Jamals (curry house in Jericho (Oxford uni part of Oxford) then on to Kakui (a club) and the overall aim is to get something out of the girls-don't think there was much success overall but bound to find out tomorrow training...

Autumn

Completed two weeks of lectures, and making a real effort to keep on top of reading and work-leave it for one week, and suddenly it seems like you're far behind. I am doing modules on economics for development and environment, economics for strategy, micro 2 and asia pacific economies.

Met Ant and Catherine for a walk on the Thames pathway today-really scenic and will definitely have to organize a canoe down the thames next summer!

Been training for rugby for St. Peters College of Oxford this weekend-big match against rivals Teddy Hall on Tuesday-bring it on! Today was typical English weather-drizzle all day, with sun peeking through occasionally. Different seasons are really noticeable here, unlike Zimbabwe. With the ground fully covered in leaves, Autumn is definitely here, and getting darker earlier and earlier all the time.