The One About Badminton

Unplug your phones, lock your doors and ignore the cats, it's Thursday today and that means only one thing here in France: Desperate Housewives night on Canal+ (C'est la saison 4 Simon!) Now, normally I would love to sit around and watch the plight of Wisteria Lane's finest; however for me, and a few others, Thursday night is Badminton Night.
There's a bit of a story behind this (not really, just filling up space), Karim, the German exchange student who left last June, kept telling me that I should find a sport to get involved with. He told that doing a sport outside of school helped him with his french, he made new friends, kept fit, got him out of the house, and the list goes on. He had even offered to help me find a sport! I figured what the hell, couldn't hurt right? So he told me he'd put together a list of the sports available in Uzès. He showed me the list and asked me if I'd like to try any of the sports. I told him rugby. Hey, everyone over here has already decided that I'm a champion rugby player back in Oz, despite my multiple (yet feeble) objections. Anyway, he told me he'd find out when I'd be able to start. A couple of weeks go by. He comes up to me and admits that he hasn't found out about the club. I tell him "No worries" (afterall, I'm not really a rugby champion - I don't even like rugby). So at this point I forget about rugby and sport altogether, right up until a couple of weeks ago (the week before I went to England to be precise - a blog I have been meaning to write by the way...) when a friend of mine was talking about her badminton club. The rest is pretty straight forward.
So here's the rest of the blog: Now Monday and Thursday nights I practise badminton from 7:30 'til 10 (it's not that long, the time just flies by). It's good fun and energetic! Except the Tuesday night session, which is just training for those serious folk. I avoid Tuesday's session for that very reason. Hey, I don't need training - don't you listen to people? I'm a rugby champion, I'll pick badminton up like that!