American football in Canada (again) – ladies tackling!

I went with my friend Dianne to an information session for a women’s tackle football team yesterday.  I had avoided seriously playing football in all my years living in the US because I thought the whole Powder Puff football thing was a little wimpy.  Where was title 9 on that one?  No tackle because we’re girls? what? I did agree to playing co-ed flag football with our graduate student BME team at Virginia Tech – for which my nose is ever so slightly crooked for…

So Dianne told me about how there is a team here called the Halifax Xplosion, which is in a ladies’ tackle league.  I decided to go to the info session thinking this would be a great way for me to meet new people other than those I work with, get some exercise, and have something else to do with my time!  Despite these all being things my parents have hinted that they want for me, they didn’t seem too excited about the idea of me playing tackle football.

Well…Mom, Dad…

My first few days

(adapted from an email to a friend)

I have arrived!  I am starting to get settled in here but still feel like there is a lot I still need to figure out.  I got here in the middle of the day Thursday (well really more like mid-afternoon).  My dad and I left on Wednesday at 5 am and had a pretty easy trip – My two-year-old, long-haired orange and white cat, Poncho was well behaved as always and my three-year-old, short-haired all black cat, Dwayne, didn’t cry too much.  We also didn’t really hit any traffic and it was nice and sunny the whole time.  There was some snow on the roads in northern Maine and across Canada but it wasn’t too bad driving.  But it is cold up here!

Thursday night my dad, my new roommate Gillian, and I went