Not Yet Anyway

I was digging through my rarely checked Hotmail account just now when I found this, sent to me a couple of weeks ago by a reformed South Australian. Seen as how I'm moving to Adelaide next year, I thought I'd go through them to see how South Australian I hopefully am not yet.

I'll bold all the ones that apply to me

YOU KNOW YOU ARE FROM SA WHEN.............

• You have been to Glenelg and got extremely sunburnt
• You know what fritz is
• You say plaaaant not pleeeent
• You have the same friends from high school
• You can't go out without seeing someone you know
• You really miss the old Sizzler cheese bread!!!
• You like ugg boots, not moccies
• You have a very strong opinion on Lleyton Hewitt
• You have been to one of the following lookouts: Stirling, Mt Lofty, Penfolds Rd, Sunnyside Rd, Eagle On The Hill, Montefiore Hill,Windy Point
• You know what Fruchocs are.
• You believe that anything that has ever breathed or moved in Adelaide air is 'Adelaide's Own'.
• You're well aware that for one month of the year, it is impossible to travel from one side of the city to the other, and during this period you will acquire a passion for V8s, a love of the arts, appreciation for world music, and expertise in food and wine.
• You pour Farmer's Union Iced Coffee on your breakfast cereal.
• You will never forgive Melbourne for stealing our Grand Prix. Never.
• You know how 'dance', 'pool', 'castle' and 'graph' are SUPPOSED to be pronounced. - NOTE: YEAH, the only one that has an 'r' sound in it, is the word that actually contains that letter.....
• You get offended when people from Western Australia call SA part of the "East Coast".
• You insist on calling AAMI Stadium, "Footy Park".
• You say a Pie Floater tastes great just to maintain your street cred.
• You believe that other states' time zones are not good enough for us. - I believe the inverse.
• You acknowledge that, while half of our state is uninhabitable, you know that it's still the greatest.
• You think the 'Tiser has no journalistic integrity whatsoever....and yet you still read it every day.
• One word: Haigh's - Never been there, heard they're really good & probably will when I move there.
• You buy your CDs from shabby "Big Star" outlets
• You know that Victor Harbor is the only place to be for Schoolies.
• You forgave the Chappells for the 1981 Underarm Incident purely out of South Australian patriotism.
• You have a unfettered love of either Crows or Port to the complete exclusion of the other.
• You know the people out on the Torrens are either tourists or rowers. No one else would go near that water. - That sounds strangely like the Yarra......
• You think the Festival Centre is a wonder of modern architecture. -HAHA, Like Federation Square..... *Sarcasm*
• You console yourself that, despite all our faults, at least South Australia wasn't built by convicts.
• You can leave work at 5:15 and miss "peak hour traffic" -Bull, it's always peakhour because they havn't thought of building Freeways yet.
• You can have a grin at the fact that Adelaide's second name is "City of Churches"
• You're not scared by Aboriginals walking around Adelaide in speedos and gumboots - That guy was (is?) a legend......
• Your 'sports gurus' are KG and Cornesy
• You either live on one side or the other of the great divide (Gepps
• Cross intersection)
• You're aware that everything is not just good, it's "heaps good"
• You still claim Anthony LaPaglia as an Adelaidean cos he worked in a shoe shop in Rundle Mall once.

Weekend Wrap-up

Every year I come to State Youth Games and it gives me nothing but pain, yet every year I keep coming back.

- Shaun

After almost 8 hours of traveling it was great to arrive at State Youth Games XI in Gawler, South Australia. I was apart of the 41 people that made up the team of Bordertown United which consisted of players from Serviceton Church of Christ, Bordertown Church of Christ, Magill Church of Christ and Edwardstown Baptist Church.

Results:
Sat. Morning - T-ball. Despite one of our team-members being unable to run, we were competitive in 3 out of our 4 games, no wins unfortunately, but the only real blow-out was in our opening game.

Sat. Arvo - Flag Football - Our opening game loss 3 - 1 was no surprise as this sport was completely new to most of our team. It was great fun and very satisfying however to notice the improvement in subsequent matches. A great interception and run, followed by some gritty defending led our team to a surprise (even to us) win 1 - 0, over our friendly opposition Modbury. Our third match was against the banner and flag waving Noarlunganites. We battled hard against more experienced opposition, and were more than happy with a 2 - 0 loss. Our final game would come down to the wire, after both teams scored early the match was deadlocked at 1 - 1, but a great interception and run in the final play of the match would see Bordertown snatch unlikely victory.

Sun Morning - Netball - Probably the sport I enjoyed the most. Playing most our games at Goal-Attack, I was able to score a few goals as well as run through the center, it was very tiring but great fun. We managed 1 win out of our 4 encounters, but again the enjoyment was had in seeing our team improve over the course of a morning.

Sun Afternoon - AFL Modified Football - Bordertown 2 were going to be battling all day in this competition. With only 3 of the 5 allowable males on our team & myself being the only player to have played football competitively before, it was going to be tough. Nevertheless, we battled on hard, ran till we had a stitches and enjoyed the challenge. Experience playing for KLU for a number of seasons had taught me to appreciate scoring points as scoring goals, and scoring goals as winning games. This we certainly did and when I was able to snap-kick the handpass I'd received from a team-mate to a marking forward, our only goal for the afternoon was kicked and we celebrated our moral victory.

Bordertown United were Runners Up overall. We where champions in the following sports:

• Flag Football
  
• Darts
• Mens Basketball
• Womens Basketball
• Table Tennis
  
• 3 on 3 Soccer
  
• Marathon Relay

Teams were also runners up in the following:

• Netball
• Backyard Cricket
• AFL Modified Football

Was a really good weekend. Well Done to all my fellow team-mates. Also well done to Marion for winning overall & Happy Valley, who won the best sportsmanship (sportspersonship?) award. Would also like to make mention of the fact that the country churches placed rather well, with Balaklava taking out the small- church category.

I think we'll all be there again to get some more pain & soreness next year.

State Youth Games

I've been looking forward to the State Youth Games this weekend for ages now. I'm travelling approx. 700km to go with Bordertown United to the South Australian Games. Road trips are always fun, but bus trips with mates on weekends like this are awesome!!!

At the moment I'm playing the following sports:

Sat Morning: T-Ball
Sat Arvo: Flag Football

Sunday Morning: **Unsure** (Either Netball or Backyard cricket)
Sunday Arvo: AFL Modified Football

All are mixed team sports.

Let the Games begin!