This is our home stadium & as you can see, the boys are well supported on campus. What a night this was!!!!!!!
Sunday, March 16, 2008
PUKKE VS MARTIES: CLASSED AS THE BIG ONE
This is our home stadium & as you can see, the boys are well supported on campus. What a night this was!!!!!!!
CAMP TOWN: VS UCT
Wors (Sausage in english) to my left & me
Our first trip: we took off 3 times but had to return because of the plane: only in Africa
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Varsity Cup in full swing
Dear family and friends, I apologies for the long break between updates, it’s just been so busy and with the Varsity Cup up and running for the last 4 weeks, my schedule has been pretty full on. Anyway I have had a couple of days off this week so I have been trying to catch up on a few things (mainly sleep) and I thought I would try and update what I have been up to.
Well in the past 4 weeks I have been to Cape Town, Port Elisabeth & this coming week we travel to George. All of the places above are on the east/south coast, so it has been really nice and I’m really looking forward to this coming week! Well I was until this week I found out myself, Matt (coach) & Mev (Manager) have to drive to George in a Van because we didn’t book enough flight tickets so I’m gutted (We are taking 3 extra players because we have 3 games in 5 days and they forgot to add them on). Anyway everyone keeps telling me, you’ll love it, getting to see the country! (Well I think I’ll enjoy the first 2 hours but I don’t know about the other 9).
Our team has had 3 wins out of 4 and the only loss we had was to the bottom team (crazy a!). Anyway hopefully we will have a few good wins at this 3 game tournament weekend before heading into semi’s and finals (touch wood we make it).
Apart from rugby, I haven’t been up to much apart from socialising (a lot lol), but I’m really enjoying the experience and have made a few really good mates. Dad, I look forward to introducing you to Frikkie Maartens as he plays openside and is a really good player. He’s from Namibia so I told him if he doesn’t make the South African team for the 2011 world cup, he must play for Namibia. Anyway he’s really keen on coming to NZ following the completion of his Honours in Bio-kinetics next year because of the great fishing, he tells me lol.
On that, last Friday afternoon I, Frikkie & Jean Teidt (no9), headed down to the river (bout 30mins away) to go fishing. Anyway once we got there, they brought out these long as and flash as roods and I was like OK? Anyway they were proper fly fishing roods so that was cool J (and I better get up to date as well with my fishing). Once I was shown how to do it properly I was away and without a word of a lie, following Frikkie’s instructions I caught a 3kg cat fish on my first cast lol! That was about it for that day of fishingJ! I really enjoyed the afternoon and I think I must get into it a lot more when I return to NZ.
Well Shooting back to the rugga’s, we beat the University of Cape town (UCT) (now in 1st place) in a wind ridden match and then following the loss to TUT (Pretoria) we beat Marties (Top Uni side in the country for many years in the pass) and Nelson Mandela memorial the following week in port Elizabeth. Cape Town itself, was very windy and I didn’t really enjoy the place, but Port Elizabeth was beautiful and very similar in a way to Whangamata (just with a bigger city) (I was told it was always windy there too but for most of the time I was there, it was nice). Anyway I took one of the coaches’ guitars down and played on the night of the game and on the way home (really miss this part of home, so really enjoyed it). At the Port Elizabeth airport we had quite a wait, so I started playing the guitar in the waiting area and everyone started to move around (reminded me off the good old busking during the summer back home).
Well apart from that I haven’t really done a lot apart from rugby, training, fishing & trying to improve my golf (I tell ya what, I’m the master of the greens at the momentJ. Doesn’t seem to last that long though)!
Well I hope everyone is well and everything back home is ticking along? I miss ya all and look forward to catching up sometime soon. I will attach some new photo’s of our games and where I been soon as possible.
Take care and keep safe
Chris (15,04,08)
Well in the past 4 weeks I have been to Cape Town, Port Elisabeth & this coming week we travel to George. All of the places above are on the east/south coast, so it has been really nice and I’m really looking forward to this coming week! Well I was until this week I found out myself, Matt (coach) & Mev (Manager) have to drive to George in a Van because we didn’t book enough flight tickets so I’m gutted (We are taking 3 extra players because we have 3 games in 5 days and they forgot to add them on). Anyway everyone keeps telling me, you’ll love it, getting to see the country! (Well I think I’ll enjoy the first 2 hours but I don’t know about the other 9).
Our team has had 3 wins out of 4 and the only loss we had was to the bottom team (crazy a!). Anyway hopefully we will have a few good wins at this 3 game tournament weekend before heading into semi’s and finals (touch wood we make it).
Apart from rugby, I haven’t been up to much apart from socialising (a lot lol), but I’m really enjoying the experience and have made a few really good mates. Dad, I look forward to introducing you to Frikkie Maartens as he plays openside and is a really good player. He’s from Namibia so I told him if he doesn’t make the South African team for the 2011 world cup, he must play for Namibia. Anyway he’s really keen on coming to NZ following the completion of his Honours in Bio-kinetics next year because of the great fishing, he tells me lol.
On that, last Friday afternoon I, Frikkie & Jean Teidt (no9), headed down to the river (bout 30mins away) to go fishing. Anyway once we got there, they brought out these long as and flash as roods and I was like OK? Anyway they were proper fly fishing roods so that was cool J (and I better get up to date as well with my fishing). Once I was shown how to do it properly I was away and without a word of a lie, following Frikkie’s instructions I caught a 3kg cat fish on my first cast lol! That was about it for that day of fishingJ! I really enjoyed the afternoon and I think I must get into it a lot more when I return to NZ.
Well Shooting back to the rugga’s, we beat the University of Cape town (UCT) (now in 1st place) in a wind ridden match and then following the loss to TUT (Pretoria) we beat Marties (Top Uni side in the country for many years in the pass) and Nelson Mandela memorial the following week in port Elizabeth. Cape Town itself, was very windy and I didn’t really enjoy the place, but Port Elizabeth was beautiful and very similar in a way to Whangamata (just with a bigger city) (I was told it was always windy there too but for most of the time I was there, it was nice). Anyway I took one of the coaches’ guitars down and played on the night of the game and on the way home (really miss this part of home, so really enjoyed it). At the Port Elizabeth airport we had quite a wait, so I started playing the guitar in the waiting area and everyone started to move around (reminded me off the good old busking during the summer back home).
Well apart from that I haven’t really done a lot apart from rugby, training, fishing & trying to improve my golf (I tell ya what, I’m the master of the greens at the momentJ. Doesn’t seem to last that long though)!
Well I hope everyone is well and everything back home is ticking along? I miss ya all and look forward to catching up sometime soon. I will attach some new photo’s of our games and where I been soon as possible.
Take care and keep safe
Chris (15,04,08)
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