I know this blog has basically deteriorated into me whining about how hard my course load is. I promise that this post will have nothing like that. Now, before reading on I have two warnings. One is that this blog will definitely be the longest one to date. Second, some of the events described could be conceived as morally objectionable. I’ll keep everything PG rated but I felt a warning might be appropriate. That being said, the stated purpose of this blog is to describe my experience here at UIUC and I’ll definitely remember this one for a while.
Ok first a little background is needed. The Illini, the sports team here at UIUC, had game against the University of Michigan on Halloween. It was expected that we would loose because up until that point we had only won one game. Well, to everyone’s surprise we won. That got everyone on campus excited and that coupled with Halloween lead to our adventure that night.
Me and my roommate had already decided we would hang out with several of his female friends to make sure they stayed relatively safe. Plus, we didn’t feel like staying in on Halloween night, win or lose. So we went to meet up with them.
Turns out that my roommate’s friend had a couple friends who were seniors in high school visiting. They wanted to have the college experience for Halloween.
Anyway, we managed to find somewhere to go for the evening after several phone calls. We headed to this one fraternity thinking everything was good. Turns out the girl/guy in our group was too low for them. A little fast talking eventually got everyone in.
So everyone is in the party having a good time, including me. The girls and most of the guys had decided to partake of the drink of choice at college parties. Me and my roommate both chose not to. We aren’t really into that kind of stuff. My roommate was dressed up as a Yeti and I was a hippy in a sweatshirt.
Well, several hours later me, my roommate, his friend, and the two high school friends left to go help someone who had gotten loss during the evening. My roommate’s friend spent a little while with the lost person, who had gotten a little scared and stuff. Anyway, at this point the two high school kids were , well, “having fun”. One of them was having a little fun but the other was having way too much fun if you get my drift. At this point I was struggling to not laugh. We made a pit stop so that the less-fun one could experience the down side of consuming too much of her drink of choice.
At this point it’s one o’clock in the morning and everyone expect the more-fun high school friend want to go to bed. The less-fun one was back to normal and wanted to go to bed too but her friend was ready to head back out and party some more. My roommate’s friend started making some phone calls.
One thing that added to the evening was the fact that the more-fun high school friend had recently broken up with her boyfriend after two years. She was the one who ended it and wanted to move. After having several drinks of her choice she wanted to move on full steam ahead, if you get my drift. She was essentially trying to make out with every cute guy that walked by, excluding myself and my roommate.
After several minutes my roommate’s friend gave up. We headed to a friend’s room in a last ditch effort, but to no avail. All the parties had wound down. At this point me and my roommate headed back to our room and the three girls headed to theirs. About 30 seconds after getting back I fell into my bed, which is no mean feat since it’s a top bunk, and slept for about 11 hours.
That was my Halloween night. Hope everyone had a good and safe night. If the post is a little hard to follow, I’m sorry. I wanted to avoid using names and, well, I couldn’t remember many names anyway. That’s about it until next time.
