International House- Block 1120

I decided to post some pics of my actual apartment... I live in block 11, room 1124, with 4 roommates. Chase is a cool girl from Iowa, Eric is an actual outgoing Korean (very rare here, there's a lot of asians but most dont speak english, eric is a champ!), Ben is an eccentric Aussie from the coast, and Bec is an aussie who lives down on a farm. All very nice and cool people. Our apartment was the only one who was neglected by an RA and wasn't decorated, so we took it upon ourselves to sidewalk chalk the walls with our names then hippie/trippy stuff, and 4 giant quote boards that every block has- for when people say hilariously embarrassing stuff. I predict I'll fill up one entire board.




Bathroom:

The toilets have a half flush for #1 and a full flush for #2 to conserve water! Clever:


Crazy electrical outlets (they use 240 Volts whereas we only use 120):

My room, jealous of my calendar?


How about that typical tourist beach towel of the Aussie Flag? Apparently, unlike American flag towels, a lot of Aussies have it and it's actually "cool" so right on :


Yesterday I went to a frat party... the only "Frat" on campus is the Engineering frat.. and it's not a typical American frat. Although we did meet in a field on campus with 8 kegs and about 50 kilos of sausages to cook. I had class all day till 5, then walked right from class to the field with a lot of my classmates. My roommate snuck me a wrist band so I got in for free... but it was $20 for everyone else. Kegs here cost, get this, $190 for the cheapest stuff! I went to my rooomates boyfriend's house for a kegger and it was $20 a person to cover the insane cost they had to pay, and people paid it willingly. Try charging that at a Towson party!

So they have positions like first year rep, second year rep, vice president, PR, all the normal jazz. But this is how they "vote"- whatever you wanna do you run for, and to run you stand up on stage in front of everyone and whoever skulls (chugs) their beer first and places it on their head wins office. How clever is that? Not very actually.. but damn fun. I don't think they get very much accomplished in this frat... but have a good time. The lines were insane for the kegs, so they passed around boxes of goon then took out the empty bags, blew em up and made goon sacks or beach balls to throw around.

And there's party rules, like if you point at someone, you skull, or it starts off as a right handed pub and you have to hold your cup in your right hand, or you skull, then they switch it up. I had to skull a lot. Before you skull they sing, "Here's to Justin he's true blue. He's a piss pot through and through. He's a bastard so they say. Tried to go to heaven but he went the other way. Drink it DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN" And you skull it down... quite fun.

After the frat party everyone walked to Bar on the Hill then downtown to Customs... the night ended with late kobabs- seriously, I have to bring one back for you guys, it's heaven on earth.

Hope all is well at home... We're headed down to Sydney this weekend for the gay mardi gras which I hear is a sight to see.

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