SO Part 3: Time Off (sorta)

Sunday was our day of mandatory fun. It started off with rain. A resilient group, we decided to go on with it anyways and headed over to Grafton Lake for the day. There’s not much to be said for the whole day as it’s just a blur, but we played games of volleyball, capture the flag, Catchphrase, rugby, and contact for hours. Beach volleyball in light rain is amazing. Sunday night seven of us went to see The Dark Knight. I’m going to put this remark up here to show that it happened at one point: The Dark Knight is currently #1 on IMDb’s top 250. I thought it was amazing, but I can still think of more than 10 movies that I think are better. Still, it is one of those movies that I know I would like to see in theatres again (though I know I wont).

Monday was Transfer Orientation #1. I spent the whole day doing office work upstairs in the Union to get ready for SO 3 and 4. It took 8 hours; I’m so glad the SO advisors are so awesome because I would have been bored stiff if not for them. I’m gonna miss everyone like crazy when this is all over…

Tuesday was an uneventful day. We were allowed to sleep in late (8AM = late) because all we were doing was going over NRB. I picked a few activities to do in August, but I have no idea which one I’ll get chosen for. After all this SO work, I don’t really feel like doing any of these activities; I’d rather just keep doing SO for a while. The biggest thing about NRB is that we all split up for activities…I’d be on my own for it, which is something that never ever ever happens during SO. I probably shouldn’t worry. After all, I was nervous about SO before I started the training and that quickly changed. The rest of Tuesday was delegated to mandatory fun involving two groups, having been trained in tours of BARH and Quad respectively. My group lost the games, but I don’t remember the winners getting anything special anyways.

I’m really glad I found people I can talk to about almost everything, even after only knowing them for a week now. I don’t even know how it happened but I haven’t felt this way in a long time.

~ by Jake on 23 July 2008.