Or something like that.
Well, now that we're all back in Sonderborg after the break, things are getting back to normal. And by normal I mean, doing school occasionally and getting shit-faced the rest of the time.
Thursday night Cafeen opened as a special occasion because a bunch of high schoolers were visiting the university for tours. Yes, it's that time of year again, when I have to walk through the halls past high school tours and resist the urge to yell "save yourselves!!"
Anyway, so we hit Cafeen at 7pm and were loady-pants by 9. This is my life. The night was spent, for the most part, trying to decipher which ridiculously built guys were from high school or from university and trying to convince the more "unique" high schoolers to do Shot-Up. Incredible influences on the next generation, I know.
During the night, a few of us got bored and resorted to playing foosball. My friend Joe and I soon figured out that we make an excellent team and we kept beating everyone. This is where Creative Drink-Getting strategy #1 was formed. Joe and I would challenge someone to a game of foosball. We bet them a beer for each of us that we would win. We kept winning.
There was a point when we started to get drunk enough that winning didn't really seem viable anymore. It was at this point that we started cheating. So whenever the other team wasn't looking, we would push one of their point markers back to make it look like they had less points. We also noticed that the dance floor lights made it really hard to see the ball sometimes, so if someone ever scored and the ball had moved so fast that we didn't see who it had been, Joe and I resolved to celebrate like we had seen that we had scored, when really, we were probably the least reliable people in the world. It worked.
Because Thursday was high school night, Cafeen closed early at about 12. Now usually, I don't make it to closing time at Cafeen. I usually get too drunk or head downtown. So I didn't know that they play "Closing Time" at closing time. I also didn't know that they boys wait around all night for the song to get on so they can drunkenly dance on the tables when the lights come on.
Exhibit A.
(Also, they are not about to kiss)
Moving on the Friday, which was significant for three reasons. 1) Creative Drink-Getting method #2 was implemented. 2) It was the Halloween party and 3) Because I am now a member of Cafeen, we were leaving at 2am, after closing, to head to an unbeknownst location for "Cafeen Weekend".
So let's start with Halloween. I'm broke and so I dressed in black, wore cat ears and called it a costume. Moving right along...
Creative-Drink Getting method #2 was actually developed and first implemented by Maud. We both ran out of money at about 11pm and still needed drinks. Cafeen was absolutely packed and there were crowds of people around the beer pong tables watching. Because of this, whenever the ball fell on the ground, it took a little bit of time to find it again. So, while the teams were searching the floor, Maud and I would steal a couple of the beer cups from each team's side. Given that there were three beer pong tables, this method was pretty effective until we got caught.
I don't really know why they were mad, to be honest. You could say we were helping them win.
At 2am, I bid farewell to Maud and the girls and ushered the boys out (while they belted "Closing Time"). The Cafeen members and I then piled into a massive van and drove 35 minutes to a lighthouse where we were staying for the weekend.
The house itself was sick and absolutely huge. We played drinking games until about 5:30am and then I called it quits and went to sleep, only to be woken up 5 hours later for breakfast.
From there, we went outside and were split into two groups for "team-building" activities. Our team was called the "Winners from Behind"....... "Team-building."
Later on that night we drank a ton more, pulled a few pranks that involved chili powder, sleeping Cafeen members and a whole lot of Tasbasco, went geo-caching, entertained the idea of getting in the ocean water whilst drunk (we were quickly shut down), pulled more pranks that involved "caution" taping cars and tying tin cans to the underside, shutting off all the lights in the living room and having a makeshift dance party and making a stupid amount of nachos at 4am.
Overall, it was a pretty great three days and an awesome way to kick off the second half of my exchange. If this weekend was indicative of how the rest of the semester is going to pan out, I think I'm in for a hell of a ride.
PS. Apparently I sleep with my ass in the air. No one has told me this before. I guess the way I lay, makes it look like I have a massive ass. Last night, Mette one of the girls, kept singing "face down, ass up, that's the way I like to sleep." I could not stop laughing.
PPS. Unbeknownst to me, Oh Canada is a pretty infamous national anthem. Every time I had to take a shot during the Cafeen weekend, everyone would start singing it. Canadian pride.
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