The week leading up to ChocOlympics was hectic. Let’s see…
Having the Easter egg hunt on all week means getting up early to hide the eggs. I went in to help on Monday morning. Monday is really my “societies day”. I have a lecture from 10 to 11, and yet, this Monday I went to uni at 8 to help with random tasks like cutting out coupons and holding stuff while the others put up posters, then headed off to a lecture at 10 only to leave it half an hour early for the “conga line”. Even though it’s about MATLAB, the lecture wasn’t really that bad, and then the whole conga line thing didn’t even work out so well.
Here we were, standing around not knowing what to do.
Yay for Avari having yellow nails though. It’s ChocSoc-yellow!
Well, conga line or not, we still set up a stall outside Manning for people to sign up for the Easter egg hunt. After staying at the stall for about an hour, I went to LingSoc’s meeting. There I go again at the whole “piling on the societies” thing. xD That is, I went to LingSoc’s meeting in a ChocSoc t-shirt selling EWB’s trivia night tickets. xD Of course, I was supposed to go help EWB with an actual ticket stall after that, except that didn’t work out either. I went back to ChocSoc after the EWB meeting, so at the end of the day I was with ChocSoc again.
Tuesday being the day where I have the most classes, I didn’t do much with ChocSoc. I finished my labwork early again. (Yay for working with someone who’s done the subject before. xD) I actually went out for dinner at Ashfield. Now, my friend suggested going to Ashfield by train, which made sense considering that the restaurant where we planned to have dinner is near the station, but obviously riding to Ashfield seemed like a better idea to me. It seems like a challenge, but it’s only about 6 km away from uni so it’s not difficult. Conveniently, there was a “bus lane 3 – 7 pm” sign on the westbound side of Parramatta Road. Not so conveniently, there was actually a bus in front of me right after I went out of the uni, and there were a lot of bus stops close together at that area. The bus stopped so often that I could keep up with it. (How slow was that bus? On this trip I probably had an average speed of around 18 km/h.) In fact, there were a few times when it was actually getting in my way, but I can’t overtake it because the cars in the next lane are moving at around 60 km/h. Soon enough, the bus went away, and I had the bus lane all to myself. When I got there, I realised that going by train wouldn’t really have saved me any time, because the time it takes to go to the station and then to wait for the train add up. Of course, it was the least convoluted way anyway, since the alternatives would be either to take the bike on the train at peak hour, or to leave it at the uni, go to Ashfield by train, and then going back to the uni to pick it up.
Well, maybe riding to Ashfield on Tuesday wasn’t such a good idea. I was really tired on Wednesday. The 9 – 3 non-stop classes weren’t so fun. I had to eat my lunch during a lecture. I ended up going to visit ChocSoc’s stall after the classes anyway.
Of course, today is where all the fun is, because it’s ChocOlympics! I was lucky that the physics lecture in the morning was cancelled, so I could sleep in, and the only classes that I had were the COMP2129 lab and the physics tute. So many awkward things happened in the lab that it was funny in a way. xD Out of all the times, Firefox just had to crash when the tutor came to mark my homework. Worse still, it crashed so badly that I had to log off and log back on before I could reopen it. The other awkward thing was that the program I wrote somehow worked on mono but not on the computer in the lab, and it took a long time to find out what was wrong. (After knowing what was wrong, maybe the question should be why it worked on mono. xD) Actually, as if that wasn’t enough awkwardness for a day, right at the end, after I’ve logged off, it turns out that my homework hasn’t been marked yet. I ended up being late for my physics tute, and then I couldn’t find the group that I worked with last week and got stuck with a group of people who don’t actually want to do anything. (They might as well not turn up at all.)
What a morning… and then it’s time to go meet the other ChocSoc execs to set up ChocOlympics. While waiting for everyone to arrive, I waved at someone who actually thought I was Donna! xD That wasn’t even awkward. It was just silly. With the way I dress, I don’t know how I can ever be mistaken for anyone else. I even had my bike with me. I was the one with the box of cakes tied to the carry rack on the bike last week. (Actually, that’s funny. Donna was the one who arrived with the leftover cakes. I was the one who went away with the second-time-leftover cakes.) Donna doesn’t even ride to uni! (Come to think of it, Donna’s the one who “should” ride to uni, but that’s a different story. xD)
We took our time to get started with the ChocOlympics. Once again, the conga line attempt didn’t work, but we did have people gathered at the lawns for the games.
Look how hard-working Avari is. Our first game was the Maltesers relay, and she was busy setting it up.
The other execs were busy too. Many people participated in the Easter egg hunt, and they were there to claim their eggs.
When we finally got started, the games were exciting.
Don’t drop the Maltesers! (Someone (not in this picture) actually picked up Maltesers from the grass. Eww… To unhygienic practices, ChocSoc says no! xD)
I didn’t get any action shots of the Wagon Wheels discus, but here’s everyone showing off their discuses. This game was actually quite difficult. Most people either throw it too far or not far enough. Quite a few people had their wheel bounce out of the marked area.
Taking photos of the Peppero sword fight wasn’t easy either, and the Peppero sticks broke really easily.
The marshmallow eating competition was cool. I got an action shot of someone trying to catch a marshmallow!
Everyone gathered around for the chocolate eating competition, but it wasn’t as exciting as I expected it to be.
Look at this contestant with his cheeks puffed up with chocolate!
Here’s our winner with his prize.
At the end, we were taking turns hitting the piñata. I broke off the part that hangs it to the string, so that was the end.
Zinah caught the smashed piñata at the end. Aww… look at her.
ChocOlympics was tiring. Look at Zinah. She was so tired she slept on the grass!
ChocOlympics is over, so we don’t need the banner any more. There was talk about destroying it, and Jen did some posing of destroying it, but it was only posing.
The others who were still around were helping Donna carry the remaining stuff to her house, so I followed with that banner… tied to my carry rack. xD I know, way to be dangerous, but it worked out fine. I actually left the campus a lot later than the rest of the group, but being on the bike I caught up with the group quickly.
After that, I actually rode to the bike shop, because I think there’s actually something wrong with my bike. It still moves normally, but I think it’s rattling a lot. The person at the workshop said that my bike was “in desperate need for a service”. Oops. Well, luckily I got it there without anything actually going wrong then. I’m actually so tired that for once I don’t really mind going home by train. It’s good that it’s Good Friday tomorrow.
Actually, even though it means that there’ll be 10 weeks of class with no holidays in between, I’m glad to have the “mid-semester” break now. After going out so much in the past three weeks or so, I definitely need the break.