I'm a newbie!!

So it's finally official! I am out of fresh meat and am now considered a "newbie" on the team!! Let's start with my minimum skills test on the 20th. It counted as far as they were concerned and at the annual Halloween Party/Fresh Meat Graduation/Awards Ceremony for the team, the girls that graduated Fresh Meat throughout the entire year were presented with special necklaces that only skaters and refs get...and I got one!!



Gratuitous picture of my boobs in my costume? Yes. But the picture doubles as an "OMG NECKLACE!" photo. :D

The only thing I needed to do was take the written test, which I did today while the other girls were warming up. I missed two (damn it!), but it counts as a pass! That means my first scrimmage will be December 11th! Holy crap! I don't know when I'll be submitting my name and number but I think it is going to be soon.

I had more things to talk about (like how bruised I am from falling all over the place at practice on Tuesday or how I really want to be a good derby player or how every single player has been so damn helpful), but I think I'll just let this post be a bit of squee! Yay!!

Date and Venue Change!!

I'm so glad that I am so obsessed with checking the Cannibal's facebook page every day or else I would not have seen this.



There are several awesome things about this change:

• I am familiar with the venue, I skate there every Monday
  
• No hard concrete (like at OEC, where they were going to hold the event)
  
• Indoors! Their other venue is/was (dunno if this is a permanent move) outdoors. Florida is hot as balls.
  
• Skate Mania is literally five minutes away from my house

And a few not so awesome things:

• I've noticed my wheels sort of sucked on the skate surface the last time I was there and my t-stops are bad (more like t-slide and skid), I run into the carpeted walls for stopping and that will be a hard habit to break
  
• The interior of the rink is filled with christian/jesus paraphernalia because it doubles as a community center; not much of a complaint, but this list is short!
  
• It's two days sooner than I thought it would be, which makes me freak out just a teensy bit.

In other news, the last two days at work I've been reading the WFTDA rules and decided to see if there were any quizzes/tests out there to see how much I've learned. This one is a pretty good test...and not just because I did well. It covers some basic information, which is always good to know.