Beer Pong @ MindSay

My weekend was awesome, and it's only halfway done.

So we had this major BBQ on the 3rd, because we had to be different from everyone who was celebrating on the 4th. I had my 3 closest friends come, and it was ~le shit~

We played cheesy board games, and my parents beat my siblings in beer pong. The best sight ever was my mother with a glass of zinfandel in her hand, she does this casual little throw and gets it in the last cup like nothing. And I ate so much. My dad cooked piles of delicious things, and there was macaroni salad, and there was cake, and there was apple pie, and there was onion dip.

And after going to bed at 1 a.m., my dad wakes us all up at 7:00 to go to the beach. We all wanted to go, but we were such zombies this morning. But we go over it, and got to the beach at about 9:00. It was where my dad used to go as a kid. I did beach stuff and got major sunburn on my back. Then my dad decides to make a makeshift volleyball "net" out of garbage cans and drawing lines in the sand. We didn't keep score (But everyone knows me and my dad whooped their asses, they just wont admit it)

Shit I love my family.

While we’re typically not ones to plug products, the “port-o-pong” is truly one of those “why didn’t I think of that?” ideas (for those of us that regularly play beer pong anyhow).

Yup, an inflatable beer pong table. Six feet long, with 10 holes in triangular form, perfect size to hold plastic red party cups. Take the party with you – to the game, to the living room, or to the pool (it floats).

The Port-o-Pong is on sale for $49.99. Remember, there are no losers in beer pong, only winners.  Just when I thought I was getting too old for beer pong ...

Today was a shopping/exploration day. No more orientation so we were free to do whatever we wanted, which made a nice change. Me and a couple of other people met up with Nichole, who has become like my mentor. I never really understood the purpose of mentors until now. Nichole studied on the same program as I'm on, only about 4 years ago, and while she was over here she met a Brummie and eventually married him and now she's living and working in Birmingham and on her way to becomming a British Citizen - which is my ultimate goal. So I feel like we have a lot in common and there are so many things that I want to ask her and that she can teach me.

 

Dan still doesn't know that I'm over here yet, and it's nice to have someone I can ask all my questions to and ring up if I need something. So anyway, she took us on a tour of the city centre today showed us where the markets are, the cheap shopping places, the good pubs and clubs. I learned a lot. Some people even applied for jobs and got interviews but I'm not sure where I want to work yet so I haven't applied anywhere yet. I'm a little indimidated by the pub/club/bar scene and I'm not sure if the high street stores are for me or not yet, so I'm going to think about it for a day or so. I have to apply soon though, because on Monday the British students will supposedly stop partying long enough to apply for a job and then they'll all be taken so I need to steal one away first.

 

I got some stuff for the flat and some instant tea for me - I didn't even know they made that, it just dissolves into cold or hot water and tastes amazing! I got this Malibu and Pinneapple kind and later I'm going out to buy some Malibu rum to put in it cuz that would definitely improve it!

 

Tonight I'm going out on a bar/pub crawl for new students thats sponsored by the University. They take us down all the cool pubs and clubs on Bristol Road, which is right by where I live and outside of the city centre.

My flatmate Steph and I went down Bristol Road last night and had dinner at this chinese/indian/thai place  - the curry was amazing!

 

On our way back to the flat we got introduced to these four british guys and one british girl, and we went back to their flat for a few hours. They were super nice! All the English people that I've met here have been SO friendly and even excited to learn that we're Americans. They want to ask us a bunch of questions and they want to teach us all they can about being British; it's extremely easy to meet people here.

 

Their flat was all pretty and decorated because they got to move in using cars like normal people. We talked and had drinks - they had a shit load of alcohol in their place, but unlike the Americans, they drink it casually, not all at once to get drunk really fast (although they do get drunk practically every night).

 

They showed me how to use the gas stove, how to use a radiator, what number to call to get the light in my room fixed (which does not work!), and then they showed me some mixed drinks that they like to do.
They have this super cheap "juice" drink here called Squash - its kinda look kool-aide, its a liquid you buy in large jars and then mix with four parts water to make the "juice". It's super cheap and lasts forever. What they do with it is mix a little squash (minus the water) with half a pint lager and half a pint cider (hard cider that is) - they say it takes the taste away and you can drink loads of it that way.

They also had some kind of vodka/lemonade/squash mixture that sounded complicated to make but that looked good.

 

We watched Anchorman and they all thought that was the most hilarious movie ever - one of the guys knew practically all the words!

 

I need to get ready to go pubbing and clubbing in a little bit, but I just got back from teaching the Brits how to play beer pong! They've never heard of it over here, so a bunch of the people from my study abroad group all went out and bought ping pong balls and plastic cups and then dragged their kitchen tables out into the center of our housing facility - which is shaped like a square with the center open. A bunch of British people came out of their flats to see what was going on immedietely -- free beer -- and they kicked our ass at most of the matches! It was so sad! Beginners luck I guess. Everyone was looking out their flat windows to see what was going on, it was a fun time!

 

This was a fairly unusual weekend for me.  I went out with kim to a pseudo party on saturday night.  It really wasn't worth my time at all.  There was one kid in a sumo outfit who loved beer pong,  he was challenging everyone.  He must have played 10 games in the short time i was there.  I feel like in beer pong, even if you lose, you still sort of win.  So that game has that going for it.  As opposed to that kid who had nothing going for him.  One of the girls has a large black boyfriend who was just wearing a black cape.  I wonder if he was going as count blackula.  Instead of sucking blood, he drains social security money from the government.  The funny thing is he would sleep all day regardless of whether or not he was a vampire.  On sunday i watched football as usual but then a bunch of us went to dinner and then went to watch a great artsy film called Saw III.  Vere, Erin and Joe weren't as impressed with it as Rob, BG and I were.  So fuck them.  I hope there will be a Saw IV.  Nothing would please me more.  The general consensus is that my mustache is awful and yet only rob wants me to get rid of it.  Everyone else seems to be getting used to it.  However it has to go soon as its crippling my already crippled social life.  God damn my album is taking forever to be finished.  The song writing part of it is the longest part.  Slowly but surely its coming together.  If i had to take a guess i would say by the spring it will be ready for the zero people who are looking forward to it.  My unhappiness with RI continues.  However i have finally realized how much i care for my friends and yet i want to leave here now more than ever.  And so the pipe dream of moving out west is back.  Probably going to end up being fruitless (in both senses of the term).  Alright i'm tired. 

Pretty much got drunkass last night...hahah..Partying with adi up at gannon definitely turned out to be more fun than I had thought...

 

we pregamed at his place for awhile, starting with some bacardi razz and lemonade....and then some girls showed up and we all played drunk driver for a bit until we left to go to a party...we went to some kids place and drank enough labatt blue to drown a horse...which was fun because that's where I met a lot of pretty awesome people...I played darts with some people and played Chug-a-lug....and that was awesome...so by now I was delightfully buzzed....

 

then we left there and went to another house, and drank some naddy Ice..which eh...really isn't my favorite, it's cheap but it does the job....oh and did I mention we were still carrying around the rum in a gatorade bottle? lol..well yeah..and then I smoked a little bit....and we started walking into a mcdonalds...with 4 drunk girls and two incredibly buzzed guys....hahaha..

 

it was okay though since the workers there already know that well over half the people in there at 1am was probably drunk/high/already wasted lol....

 

we left there and went to another party at some house, because adi couldn't find the damn house haha...we walked 8 blocks and then realized it was 6 blocks back hahaha....we drank some naddy light there and I met some more people....

 

then it was getting late and we decided to go back to his place...but when we got there, we ran into some random people who were lost in his building...and since the cops were outside the dorm we invited them in and we started drinking once again...so this makes drinking time from 8pm to 2am for now...

 

they stayed for awhile, we all went outside and smoked and took random photos...and then we went back inside and started to watch V for Vendetta until about 5:30am...and then we passed out and I drove back to edinboro around 11am....

 

 

so yeah...that was my weekend...how about yours?  :D