so there's army talk, med talk, law talk... now there's boatie talk! seriously... put 2 novice boaties in a group and you'll end up with very annoyed non-boaties wanting to leave the conversation.

anyway i'm psyched cos we had the first round of clare novices regatta on thursday and our boat won both our races! wooooot! for our races we got special tshirts with our crew names and stuff... so it's like got the names of our cox, coach and the VIII of us at our positions. cool no? everyone was very impressed. BUT. we paid 20quid for it. haha so clare novices is an 800m race. scary stuff since emma sprints was 500m long and i very nearly died.

our first race was against clare b. which we won easily cos i think they crashed into the bank. advanced to the next round... which we had to wait in the boat for like 2 hours for. and it was FREEZING!! i could hardly feel my fingers. second race against jesus b! (jesus is traditionally v strong at rowing. so is queens' though. haha) everyone was quite nervous cos we have this sort of rivalry with jesus (or at least they annoy us a bit) cos we got our ass kicked by jesus a during emma sprints. so we desperately wanted to beat them. after "ATTENTION, GO!" we had an amazing start! and then jesus caught a crab (which is when like you don't square your blade properly before putting it into the water so it kind of gets sucked under by the water. and this basically screws up the entire boat) so we got a massive headstart. then we caught a crab (not as massive luckily) and jesus managed to get within a boat's length of us. omg it was sooo scary and exciting! like "we're fricking winning if jesus overtake us it'd be damn lau kui" kept going through my head. and i swear they kept inching closer and closer. and i love our cox! she's amazing.

typical cox talk in a race:
"and drive 1! drive 2! drive 3! and WIND 1! WIND 2! etc etc. AND LEGS 1! LEEHHHGS2!!! LEEHHHHGS 3!!! etc... COME ON GIRLS EYES IN THE BOAT YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME AND I WANT A POWER 4... IN 2... IN 1... AND PUSHING WITH THE LEGS! SIT BAHHHCCKKK! SIT BAHHHCCCKK! AND LENGTHEN THAT STROKE! LENGTHEN IT! SQUARE EARLIER! SQUARE! I WANT TO SEE THAT PRETTY ROWING! CATCHING WITH STROKE! PUSHING WITH THE LEGS!"
funny right? haha but it's damn motivating!

haha so yeahh we rowed like mad and 800m wasn't all that tiring with all that adrenaline. but heh i reckon if you took a snapshot of us rowing it would have the funniest expressions! i'm sure i had a look of utter pain on my face. HAHA! and so we WON! by a boat's length. we were damn psyched after that!! haha gotta love it man! tmr morning racing selwyn c. if we win that we're in semis. and if we win that we're in finals. and if we win that we'll be champs! haha er... i dunno whether that would happen. and it's annoying me a bit cos my sister is coming tonight for the weekend and i could very well end up spending my entire day tmr rowing! :(

today's dissection was hilarious! emma: so if you want to kill someone, is that where you cut? hahahahaha the look on the demonstrator's face was priceless!

i only just realised how off my time is from blogger's. so i'll try to sign off with the time on my side in the future.

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