October 16

Today was a little more light hearted. Carl (Ireland), Geoff (New Zealand), Thomas (Czech Republic), and me (USA) all decided to have a mini Olympics thing today. First was Bowling…. Okay so not NORMAL bowling. This is like lawn bowling which by the way is stupid and not bowling on a lawn at all! Its like bocci ball except you don’t throw the ball …and its not technically a ball it’s a sphere like object with two flat sides on it that you roll. So I guess in the aspect of rolling something its like bowling. You roll the ball with flat sides at a smaller ball and knock the other teams flat balls out of the way to be closest to the small one…. Right… so I stunk at this game because I just wanted to throw it like Bocchi. I don’t know how the scoring went but I lost… on to tennis then!

Ok so apparently Im bad at tennis as well, hitting the ball no matter if its in or out, hitting it more like a baseball… apparently hitting it out of the tennis court does not result in the crowd going wild… Onto drinking games!

This is where I excelled a little bit. We all taught each other different drinking games from our home countries. Carls game was mostly just drinking and punching and honestly don’t know how anyone won the game… seemed like you were either getting punched and drinking or getting punched and not it… huh. Geoffs game was somewhat of a mystery and involved cowboys and saying strange country terms like “Bring um on down” and “Get along little doggy” I think this game needs being drunk as a prerequistite as it didn’t make any sense whatsoever you just point at someone and say something and they drink. Thomas’s game was a little easier, you flip a box of matches into the ash tray and depending how it lands on the faces you have to drink… was more like a flip it and however it lands you drink. Was fun to watch him flip the match box though. And I taught them how to play beer pong which seemed to be the most fun for everyone and lasted the longest as well. So I was 1 for 3 not bad Americans placed third! Woo!