Vancouver: Week 9

Week 9 was a really interesting week. I did a whole lot of things with new groups of people and it went very well. To be honest I wasn’t too sure how it would all work out, but it was great – and the best part was they weren’t Aussie!! Yay!

The first part of the week was spent finishing off my POLI370 paper on Cluster Bombs and their legality. God it was hard work, but really quite rewarding to get done. Definitely the most work I’ve done for 2000 words, and a really interesting topic.

The second part of the week couldn’t have been more different – Thurs was Gladiator, Friday was Borat, Saturday was the Frat Graffiti party and Sunday was Roosters!

Gladiator was another UBC Rec event (our last one actually ). It was based on the American Gladiators TV show – so we had challenges involving horizontal bungee, jumping castle, mazes and the like. We competed in our Longboat team (minus Michele and with Amanda) and got t-shirts made for the occasion! It was awesome fun, and we lost BIG time (except in the one event that required brain power – the maze – there we came first by a huge margin). The big downer though was Amanda’s injury in the first event – Eliminator. She fell badly on the jumping castle and twister her ankle badly, so she had to go to the doctors and get crutches. Hope you get better Amanda!!

Seeing Borat on its opening night was something Chris and I had discussed for ages. There was even a Facebook group dedicated to it – now that’s official! There was a huge group of us that the movie was almost incidental. I’m still undecided on whether I like it, it’s very degrading and shocking at times (given that most of the interviews are real!), but it is such base humour. Overall though I think it’s unique enough to warrant all the rave reviews.

Saturday was my first real Frat party, and it didn’t really live up to my expectations. Granted it was the Jewish frat (Alpha Epsilon Phi), so things are always more low-key there, and the cops shut down the party before we even got there (supposedly for having more alcohol than they are allowed for the number of attendees). We moved to the Pit with our white t-shirts and marker pens and began to write on friends, strangers and basically anyone that wanted it. There was an 80s party going on at the Pit, but we had a far larger numbers and brought the fun! I met Chris A there and his sister, went to his office in the SUB, ate at the Pita Pit and climbed to the top of Buchanan Tower (BuTo) at 3am. Talk about an awesome night!!

Now, I don’t know how much you all know about me, but what’s the first thing that comes to mind when I saw I went to a Country music club (called Roosters)??! Not really my type of thing, you say? Well you’re wrong! It was AWESOME fun – although $1 Coronos and some token Justin Timberlake helped!! Now I just have to get the words to “Save a horse, Ride a cowboy” out of my head! (And yes, it is as bad as it sounds!)