Around the World GU Style...5 months later...

First off, let me do some explaining. "Around the World" is a senior event at GU that occurs the weekend before finals spring semester. Typically there are 5 houses that seniors gather at on a chosen Saturday and each house represents a certain country, serving drinks of that country (hence, the name "Around the World.") Due to some last-minute concerns, 2 of the houses backed out, so we only went to 3 houses, the first 2 each representing 2 countries. Basically, the idea is that the party starts at noon and ends when everyone passes out. In no ways is this event a proud moment in any senior's life, but it's definitely a day worth documentation. Primarily because photos are the only way for many of the participants to "remember" what really went on that day! Please note the awesome fanny-packs that many of us were sporting...in them were our ID's and disposable cameras. If they were lost, the damage would have been minimal considering the contents. What a great idea, right?
HOUSE #1: France & England
Time: ~12pm
Drinks served: Mimosas and Gin and Tonics
Food served: Costco pastries, including muffins
Okay, so mimosas are alright at noon, but gin and tonic is never alright! After dumping out numerous cups of gin and tonic, I managed to get a hold of a couple of mimosas, thank the lord! Starting out slow was the plan and it was upheld...a couple of drinks and a poppyseed muffin, and with smiles on our faces, we were headed to house #2.
HOUSE #2: Italy and Germany
Time: ~1:30pm
Drinks served: Wine and more wine, and Jägermeister
Food served: Pizza
After waiting in line for what seemed like hours, I managed to get a hold of some pizza, Dominos. Sadly, I picked all of the cheese off and fed it to Wes...booo! I manged to avoid the Jäger almost completely and sipped on some wine a beer while we were there, for what seemed like forever! House #2 was only a few houses from ours, so we all took numerous trips back to the house to use the non-outhouse restrooms and to help some strangers clean up bloody noses and other random injuries or mishaps. Carlo Rossi in plastic cups? We're classy at GU! Mallory even came out to play, completing the circle of drunken 303 roommates, and we even have pictures as evidence! House #2 is where our classmates slowly started to fall...but the survivors trudged on to house #3!
HOUSE #3: Mexico
Time: ~4 pm
Drinks served: Margaritas
Food served: Chips and Salsa
As you can imagine, house #3 is where things really started to get out of hand! And yes, that is a kiddie pool full of chips and huge bowls of salsa. What a happy place indeed! For one reason or another, we were not at house #3 for very long. Supposedly we were getting kicked out by the cops (who were present, but had been all day), but rumors flew and I later heard that the sophomores who were renting the house decided to kick us out so that they could keep the remaining 8 kegs! I think that Emily went on a mission later in the evening to recover one, but was unsuccessful. How unfortunate! We were at the house long enough, however, for Wes and I to get into a water fight that quickly turned to a margarita fight. Soaking wet and equally sticky, we headed back to 303.
The day called "Around the World" was one of many, many smiles, as well as some not-so-happy faces and most definitely a Sunday of hangovers. I spent several hours on my front lawn after the event, drying off and sobering up. I made a few phone calls, in hindsight, a bad choice, but eh well. I'm sure the phone call home was not one that made my parents smile out of proudness (if that's a word) but I bet there were giggles to be had on both ends! Out of pure luck, I was scheduled to work an overnight at work on Sunday night, so I hit the hay early after Around the World, and after a few good hours of sleep, got up to study for my Microbio final for the rest of the night. I then proceeded to sleep through the rest of the day. Had I not had to work, I'm sure that I would have been "hurting" quite a bit more than I was because I would have, no doubt, closed down the bars with the other Around the World survivors of my senior class.