Boer War on the hockey field
I grew up in Durban in the predominately English-speaking province of (then) Natal, South Africa. I went to a very small all-girls private school. If there is anyone reading this from Durban we were the ones with the green uniforms and big white panama hats...

Like all schools we sport was an important part of our lives. Our first teams hockey, netball etc were reasonably good but given the fact that there were less than 300 of us (in the WHOLE SCHOOL) the depth of talent was quite shallow ie below first team level we were the sporting equivelent of monkeys with typewriters trying to write Shakespeare.

I was on the third (sometimes second) hockey team. It was mandatory - you HAD to play - even if you were tiny like me. I played left back. Our collective fear was playing the Afrikaans schools. They were huge so had an enormous depth of talent. Their third team players could have quite easily made it on to our first team. Also, Afrikaaners are predominately of Dutch origin who as any fule kno are the tallest people in Europe. These girls were fucking IMMENSE - boobs and EVERYTHING.

Not only that they played dirty and nothing gave them greater pleasure than fucking up a bunch of prissy english-speaking private school girls.

I will never forget the feeling of intense fear - standing in position while this herd of fucking Amazons charged towards me. I would actually try and defend and was ruthlessly body-checked. After one particuarly brusing encounter Daddy had a little chat with the hockey coach and I was exempted from further participation...
(MostlySunny, Fri 20 Apr 2012, 15:27, Reply)