So most of my life I was actually a dancer, for probably I’d say just under 10 years or so but I sort of fell out with it because of body image a lot of it, because most of the dancers you’re with are quite, I’d say, skinny, and I’m not the skinniest person, so it’s quite hard to be in a group of girls who you’d say have, I guess, the perfect body when you don’t consider yourself the perfect body.
But my dad, when I was in year seven, was like, girls, why don’t you come along and play rugby? And I was like, oh, I’m not really trying to, play a sport that I’m going to be covered in mud in. So I messaged my friend Katie and was like, Katie, do you want to try rugby with me? And she was like, not really, but I’ll give it a go. So we went that Sunday morning. I’m not the best at making friends, so it took a while for me to warm up to it. But then meeting some of the girls that I’m going to be friends with for life changed how I thought of the sport.
So I really, to be fair, I fit in and managed to fit in quite quickly when I actually started to warm up to the sport. But yeah, it means a lot to me. And if I didn’t start the sport that rainy day, then I wouldn’t have met some of the people I’ve met today and I wouldn’t be at this college.
