Getting Silly in N-Zed

A few weeks or so ago, as I realized that my time in NZ was fast approaching its end, I decided that I needed to amp up my adventure-taking and just general fun times.

One night, my friends Ingrid and Jessi decided to host a "WTF" party. The idea was to dress up in a costume that would make people say "WTF?" So I hopped inside my crashpad and waddled over to the flat where I thought the party was. I walked into a room of 20 or so people, none of them dressed up. But they seemed to know of the theme because many of them said "WTF?"

I finally tracked Ingrid and Jessi down. Their costumes were pretty hilarious. Ingrid was in a blue and white ski suit and Jessi was wearing a leotard with silver sparkly spandex tights. So I swapped my crashpad for a teal leotard and black spandex. We all donned pink bandanas cut from a big piece of fabric.

We decided to take our "WTF" party to the campus bar. It was a Thursday night, so the place was pretty packed. We spent the next few hours dancing through the crowds trying to rile people up and getting plenty of wierd looks in the process. Jessi and I pretended we were aerobic instructors and got people to do jazzercise with us.

We had one of the best nights we've had in NZ. We realized that it's way more fun going out wearing costumes when no one else is. We decided that every Thursday would be "WTF" night, and pretty much every week since then, we've dressed up crazy and rocked the campus bar.


Classes finished last week. I wanted to make the last day of class especially good as it was my last day of college classes. So a couple of friends and I decided to do the Rocksoc quiz night. Rocksoc is Canterbury's geology club and it makes me envious that Northeastern doesn't have a more fun geology club. But I am indeed happy that I could experience a bit of Rocksoc.

The costume theme for the night was rockstar. Most of my team didn't really plan ahead, so we ended up with some ridiculous costumes. Peter wore a one-piece black suit thing and my friend Lucy wore a black-and-white striped bathing suit with gold sparkly pants on her arms worn like a jacket. Jessi thought it'd be funny if we called ourselves "Team America" because half our team was Kiwi, and well America is just cool. So we played the role of obnoxious Americans pretty well that night. Whenever it was silent, Jessi, Lucy, and I would yell "America, F Yea!!" Needless to say some people told us to shut up, but I think we made some friends as well.

Team America ended up tearing up the quiz, especially the music round, because one of our team members knew single every answer. Somehow though we didn't win any of the cool prizes that mostly consisted of beer and wine. But we weren't too phased, as once the quiz ended, someone put on Bohemian Rhapsody and We Are The Champions and everyone started rocking out, professors and all. I don't think I've ever had that much fun with my professors, and it kind of made me sad that I can't stay at Canterbury longer. But alas, at least I was able to experience the greatness of Rocksoc for one evening. (My real regret is missing the 3-legged pub crawl they hosted earlier in the semester...)

And because I know I left you all in suspense about my dumpster bacon goodness, one night last week, we had a very ceremonial cooking of our prized bacon. I may have never before eaten such tasty, tasty bacon!