Cambridge Formals

so far:

* Gonville and Caius *
- standing at the back of the queue (I said queue! line!) for Superhall tickets while everyone else cut the queue for 45 minutes and being very very afraid that they were going to run out of tickets by the time we got to the front - getting the second to last ticket -
- bringing lots of people - random or not - to normal formal halls to get rid of my tickets - can now eat wherever I want for rest of term :)

* Peterhouse *
- MITers with a bottle of wine each - some guy's birthday party, resulting in a drunken speech on top of the table and mooning us (twice) with English flag boxers - more drunkeness at the bar afterwards

* St. John's *
- quite quiet because of the formal hall boycott - gorgeous hall and food oh my the best - extremely strict porter - one of us almost getting kicked out for trying to penny - taking lots of pictures of hall after the fellows leave the high table - hanging out afterwards and talking half in Chinese the rest of the night about Chinese movies, Chinese food, Chinese cities, Singapore, whatever else random topics

* Churchill *
- launch of Spring Ball theme - seeing white girls with white face powder and their definition of a makeshift kimono - thinking oh god what if the Spring Ball theme is like, Japan or something? - finding out the Spring Ball theme is Neon Sunrise Tokyo, combination of old Japanese culture and the new neon light modern raves of Tokyo - seeing half the dressed up people in Chinese rather than Japanese clothes - a guy in a Hello Kitty costume head that was made out of a de-stuffed pillow - Japanese food for superhall - teaching one to eat with choptsticks! - one talking up an East Asian studies major - going from Churchill room to St John's - trying to learn how to ride a bicycle along the way - making a fool of myself - ending up giving each other and thinking about brainteasers most of the night - meeting the awesomely funny drunk next door neighbor - taking turns going to another "special" room to see if one has the correct answer - me being very happy I solved it first

* Trinity *
- not a day for good food - college bar pool and Foosball - watching replays of Man U v Stokes 5-0 at the bar - as much as I can drink in 10 minutes? okay not really - playing guitar and You Don't Know Jack on the computer - not going to the toga party - riding on the back of a bicycle while driver not completely sober - ending up listening and singing to Chinese songs until 5am

* Girton *
- so freaking far away - thank goodness for friend's car transportation - entering through the back entrance and walking all the way through the college to the front - nice JCRs, swimming pool, squash court, Tesco down the road... Girton is self-sufficient - life after Girton? life outside of Girton? - meeting new people - realizing the whole long hall table is reserved for CUMSA group - no pennying allowed, but secret spooning - pennying dessert - college bar drinking but then half the guys getting banned for drunken rowdiness - very amusing drunks - going on a big walking tour of Girton while making sure one person doesn't throw up - lots and lots of cam whoring the whole night - what a Girton adventure

* Christ *
- tomorrow - supposedly lots of pennying to get ready for :P