Day 18: 2/18
Where to begin? What a crazy day…today was the annual O-week international students cocktail party. Yes that’s right, the University sponsors a cocktail party for all of its international students that provides free beer, wine, and mimosas for an hour and a half. I couldn’t wrap my head around it, because obviously something like this would be considered scandalous in the United States, yet it is completely accepted here – faculty were at the party drinking with us! I definitely got my fill before the pub crawl that was scheduled for afterwards. On an interesting side note, I met a small white girl with a British accent named Sarah at the party. As we chat she tells me she’s Kenyan, which I found bizarre, but very interesting. Next, hundreds of drunken students boarded buses that were to take us to three different bars around Sydney throughout the night. I can’t remember any of the names of the bars, but the first place we stopped at was a good time. Luke, Liz, and I participated in a shout together (a shout is basically just when a group of people takes turns buying drinks for each other – it’s considered very offensive to back out midway through shout). Anyhow, when Luke’s turn had arrived, he bought us all a liter of some dark beer (similar to Guiness) and I drank mine within about 5 to 10 minutes. I wasn’t really trying to chug it, but I just thought it was pretty tasty and got it down quickly. Needless to say, I was quite intoxicated by now and after a very brief visit to the next bar in the crawl, we decided to head back home. Luke, Jenna, Emily, and I got on a bus that I don’t recall paying to board, and by the time we realized what was going on, we had passed our stop by about 15 minutes. Fortunately, Jenna noticed before we were halfway to the next town, we got off and walked home.
Where to begin? What a crazy day…today was the annual O-week international students cocktail party. Yes that’s right, the University sponsors a cocktail party for all of its international students that provides free beer, wine, and mimosas for an hour and a half. I couldn’t wrap my head around it, because obviously something like this would be considered scandalous in the United States, yet it is completely accepted here – faculty were at the party drinking with us! I definitely got my fill before the pub crawl that was scheduled for afterwards. On an interesting side note, I met a small white girl with a British accent named Sarah at the party. As we chat she tells me she’s Kenyan, which I found bizarre, but very interesting. Next, hundreds of drunken students boarded buses that were to take us to three different bars around Sydney throughout the night. I can’t remember any of the names of the bars, but the first place we stopped at was a good time. Luke, Liz, and I participated in a shout together (a shout is basically just when a group of people takes turns buying drinks for each other – it’s considered very offensive to back out midway through shout). Anyhow, when Luke’s turn had arrived, he bought us all a liter of some dark beer (similar to Guiness) and I drank mine within about 5 to 10 minutes. I wasn’t really trying to chug it, but I just thought it was pretty tasty and got it down quickly. Needless to say, I was quite intoxicated by now and after a very brief visit to the next bar in the crawl, we decided to head back home. Luke, Jenna, Emily, and I got on a bus that I don’t recall paying to board, and by the time we realized what was going on, we had passed our stop by about 15 minutes. Fortunately, Jenna noticed before we were halfway to the next town, we got off and walked home.
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