Safari Night

Okay, the first time I saw Safari Night on the list of activities for Freshers Week, I had no idea what to even begin to expect. But it really turned out to be a lot of fun. Essentially, returning grad students volunteered to cook dinner (with starter, main course and dessert), and each round of the meal they would host a different group of 2-3 freshers. Of course ,this means that each fresher got to go to a different house for each course. It was a nice opportunity to see what the other graduate accomodations owned by the college were like, but also provided an opportunity to interact with some new people. And not to mention, that there were about 30 freshers wandering around between different houses with half-filled bottles of wine (since we carried our wine to each course) - I swear it must have looked like we were all a bunch of drunks or somethign wandering through the streets since it was rather difficult to see most of the house numbers once it got dark outside.

Once the actual Safari Night activities were over, it was the grand opening of the new Jesus College Bar, which had just undergone extensive remodeling and been moved from the first floor (2nd to us Americans), to the ground floor (again, for Americans the first floor). It seemed pretty nice, but I'm still not used to walking into bars and seeing 18 year olds, but of course, the drinking age isn't 21 over here, but I'm still not quite used to that. The Jesus Bar is nicer that the town bars/pubs, because it stays open til 11:30 rather than just 11 - yeah things really seem to close super early around here and open rather late. So after the bar closed, a group of us went back to one of the guys houses and over a bottle of cheap Sainsburys port, spent time comparing the merits of various American and Australian musicians.

To me, though, the best part of the evening was coming home at 2 in the morning to find out that Army had actually managed to win a football game!! Go Black Knights, no more 19 game losing streaks!