craziest, most action-packed weekend of my life. right now i can't stop feeling like i'm still rocking up and down... more on that later.
friday uct sponsored a party called "Big Bash." The title aptly describes it. I have never seen a larger school sponsored party ever. It was at an amusement park and there were at least 5,000 people there. the school bussed us there and back (the buses ran til 8 am!) The party was awesome and was co-sponsored by castle lager (the beer) and brutal juice (glorified smirnoff ice). so if you were vip (as we obviously were) and you ordered castle or brutal juice you got a free one. excellent! also we met some cute guys and talked to them for awhile and then we decided to go dance. While down on the dance floor a castle rep told us that if we went up to the stage and talked to some other rep he could give us free stuff. so we did. and that rep had 4 of us girls actually go on stage and dance. so i danced in front of a few thousand strangers and won a castle backpack for it! pretty cool!
saturday my house hosted an afternoon braai at our pool before our program went to a rugby game. we had about 50 people hanging out, drinking beer, eating meat. it was highly successful and lots of fun. we'll probably be hosting more. Then we headed off to the professional rugby game. We had standing room only seats. the stadium is full of crazy ass drunk men. We decided when we got there to go visit the "pub" because you can't drink in the stands (after seeing all these wackos, i've decided that that's a pretty smart rule). the pub is basically in a bathroom. the "bars" are made of plywood. and there aren't too many women hanging out in them. so as soon as all us american girls walked in it was like open season. one guy told me i was the most beautiful girl at the game and he took a picture of me with his camera phone. then we went back out to watch the game, where anything that happened seemed to the men in attendence like a good reason to start a fight. so after watching some of the game (which was crazy violent, btw) me and 2 guys went back into the pub and witnessed a fight (and promptly left). then we decided to leave the game early and went back to one of the houses to hang out. everyone came and met us after the game and the party continued. basically it was insanely fun.
now for the weekend highlight. today i went shark diving! and it was soo awesome. i have now accomplished one of my life goals. the only negative to the experience was that since this is kind of the off-season we only saw a couple sharks and there weren't any around when i was in the cage. but we did see a 17 foot adult male. The guides told us that that was extremely rare and in their 6 years of this job they had only seen a handful of sharks over 5 meters. it was so so so big. and it thrashed against the cage. we all got soaked. so cool. i really wanna do it again so that i can be in the water when there are sharks. and it wasn't scary. the rugby pub was 10 times more frightening than the sharks. when we were in our wetsuits in the water (freezing) and waiting for the sharks, the anticipation was crazy. you just seagulls everywhere and if you duck your head under water you see thousands and thousands of fish. the pictures i got weren't that good, but i'll post them on my picture website soon. we were out on the water for 5 hours. it was pretty chilly, cloudy and the swells were huge. you had to hold onto the boat for dear life.
so all in all, i'd say the weekend was extremely successful and one of the best of my life.
friday uct sponsored a party called "Big Bash." The title aptly describes it. I have never seen a larger school sponsored party ever. It was at an amusement park and there were at least 5,000 people there. the school bussed us there and back (the buses ran til 8 am!) The party was awesome and was co-sponsored by castle lager (the beer) and brutal juice (glorified smirnoff ice). so if you were vip (as we obviously were) and you ordered castle or brutal juice you got a free one. excellent! also we met some cute guys and talked to them for awhile and then we decided to go dance. While down on the dance floor a castle rep told us that if we went up to the stage and talked to some other rep he could give us free stuff. so we did. and that rep had 4 of us girls actually go on stage and dance. so i danced in front of a few thousand strangers and won a castle backpack for it! pretty cool!
saturday my house hosted an afternoon braai at our pool before our program went to a rugby game. we had about 50 people hanging out, drinking beer, eating meat. it was highly successful and lots of fun. we'll probably be hosting more. Then we headed off to the professional rugby game. We had standing room only seats. the stadium is full of crazy ass drunk men. We decided when we got there to go visit the "pub" because you can't drink in the stands (after seeing all these wackos, i've decided that that's a pretty smart rule). the pub is basically in a bathroom. the "bars" are made of plywood. and there aren't too many women hanging out in them. so as soon as all us american girls walked in it was like open season. one guy told me i was the most beautiful girl at the game and he took a picture of me with his camera phone. then we went back out to watch the game, where anything that happened seemed to the men in attendence like a good reason to start a fight. so after watching some of the game (which was crazy violent, btw) me and 2 guys went back into the pub and witnessed a fight (and promptly left). then we decided to leave the game early and went back to one of the houses to hang out. everyone came and met us after the game and the party continued. basically it was insanely fun.
now for the weekend highlight. today i went shark diving! and it was soo awesome. i have now accomplished one of my life goals. the only negative to the experience was that since this is kind of the off-season we only saw a couple sharks and there weren't any around when i was in the cage. but we did see a 17 foot adult male. The guides told us that that was extremely rare and in their 6 years of this job they had only seen a handful of sharks over 5 meters. it was so so so big. and it thrashed against the cage. we all got soaked. so cool. i really wanna do it again so that i can be in the water when there are sharks. and it wasn't scary. the rugby pub was 10 times more frightening than the sharks. when we were in our wetsuits in the water (freezing) and waiting for the sharks, the anticipation was crazy. you just seagulls everywhere and if you duck your head under water you see thousands and thousands of fish. the pictures i got weren't that good, but i'll post them on my picture website soon. we were out on the water for 5 hours. it was pretty chilly, cloudy and the swells were huge. you had to hold onto the boat for dear life.
so all in all, i'd say the weekend was extremely successful and one of the best of my life.
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