I'm in my last week of the semester… I've got 1 paper and 2 exams left, and that’s it!
My last exam is on the 21st of April, Ill go to Ems for the Easter weekend, then I have all of May here in waterloo (doing a couple of weekend trips but that’s about it) to save a bit of money, then the parents arrive in june, and I fly home at the start of july!
Its been almost 4 months already! So crazy how quickly its gone!
Last weekend was the kinesiology formal, which was a lot of fun! Lisa was kind enough to lend me her dress and shoes from last year.
Everyone in our class is graduating this semester so it was a big night. Pat and I even made it onto the graduation slide show, which half of the kin kids didn’t manage…
The weekend before last was Kin games. I’m so glad the others applied to get Pat and I on the team; there are only 30 spots for each university… So we were very lucky.
It’s basically the same as uni games in Australia except fewer sports and only people studying kinesiology can go. The day we left for the games was St Patricks day, which is HUGE here, everyone dresses in green and pulls their couches onto the front lawn and drinks. You can virtually wander into any home and drink with anyone because there are so many open house parties. So after a morning and afternoon of drinking everyone got onto the bus to go to London, where Kin games was held at the University of Western Ontario (about 2 hours south west of Laurier).
As we arrived at the hotel, outfits changed from green into purple and gold while alcohol kept flowing and drinking games began…
The next morning involved more alcohol, followed by an opening ceremony for which each uni had to prepare and perform a dance which was a bit trickier after a couple of drinks… The team then split up to go play each of handball, ultimate frisbee and street hockey. I played handball with Em, Lisa and a few others, while Pat played ultimate frisbee outdoors in the cold.
Handball one 3 out of four games before the team re joined to return back to the hotel to get changed. We all donned the team t-shirt which says “we go all night long” to match the song we danced to… The bus picked us up for a night out at one of the local bars, where we almost went all night long.
My head was very sore the next morning, but we got up for the next few rounds of handball. At one point I saw one team call a time out, pass a drink bottle of beer between both teams and their supporters, then continue playing.
The closing ceremony involved watching half a dozen teams compete for the academic challenge, a streaker run in around the auditorium then return with her clothes on to a cheering audience and a beer which she then skulled for everyone, followed my many others who skulled beers through the beer bong while everyone else cheered… There was sooooo SOOOO much cheering. Every team has about a dozen cheers for their team, but also cheers for other teams as well. It was really different to Australia, because once you’re off the court/field, all the universities are so loving and supportive of each other; it was actually really nice to see, but it means you are cheering the whole time!
I'll be uploading some more photos soon, the internet is really slow, so its quite a painful process...
xo
