ringette?

when i first moved to canadia i wanted to play hockey. but they didnt have hockey for girls. and i wasnt good enough to join a boys team. i mean, i had taken regular ice skating lessons but had no concept of real hockey skills. if i really wanted to join a boys team i could have probably played on a team with 5 year olds...i was 11. but i didnt play with boys. i saw girls playing this sport that pretty much looked like hockey. and thats how i was swept into the world of ringette. hmm...i had to go to the league president's house where her daughter showed me all the equipment i would need. she giggled when she pulled out the "jill" which was this tiny piece of padding akin to a boys "jock."

anyway, i played ringette for 3 years before they came out with a girls hockey team.
i was really good my first year because i was playing in the house league. and then in my 2nd year, i played for the rep team, which was full of girls who had all been playing since bunnies (5 and 6 years) and they were real cocky and bitchy like um, can you skate faster? and no one wanted to be my partner when we had to do passing drills because i sucked. and then in my third year, well...i started hating ringette. and i would pretend that i was sick for practices. but then i felt bad for not going to practice but only showing up for games, so i stopped showing up to games too. i think i missed half the season. but i was on a good team and we won a few tournaments. and then girls hockey arrived and i was all ringette what?




period.