This is it: my first blog post. I am officially a member of the Internet. I'm writing this first post to give everyone an idea of why I created this blog and what I plan on writing about. I just recently joined a local rugby team as part of a field study that I am required to complete for one of my courses at my school, Rhode Island College. I'm planning on posting a bunch of videos on my YouTube account of me playing rugby, my team's rugby games, and some other instructional videos on the basic rules of rugby. I'll have photos to put up of myself and of my team as well, as well as anything related to rugby. My posts themselves will mostly be about the day-to-day lives of rugby players in America and what role rugby plays in our culture, along with my interactions with that culture. It's not a very well known sport here and I think it would be very interesting to see what its like to be part of the relatively small community of rugby players here in the US. So, come with me on this expedition into the unknown as I place myself out into the real world; risk social awkwardness and physical injury with me in my attempt to discover what rugby really is all about.