Surf Club

The other day on campus, RMIT hosted a big involvement fair, where all of the sports, clubs, and organizations set up stands and tents to encourage involvement. After snagging all of the freebies we could, my group of four girlfriends--Cheyenne, Hollie, Amy, and I, elected to sign up for the school surf club. It's been going on for awhile at the neighboring school, Melbourne University, but has only been up and running at RMIT for a year or two. we paid a club fee to sign up, got really cool coozies (to insulate beer cans/bottles), and got invited to the welcome BBQ/party the following day. The club has lots of social events throughout the semester, all mixed with the other school's club as well, and a few organized "surf camp" trips that we go on. The consist of 3-day trips (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) where we surf all day and party all night. Sounded like a pretty good set-up to us. 

We dressed up for the beach-themed party the following day in hula skirts and leis and headed over. There was probably about 60 people there. They were grilling, drinking mass quantities of punch/jungle juice that they made in a roundabout in the middle of a semi-decent street. They had a big white board with the rules of the gathering. They all were things you had to do when certain cars passed by. For example, when a motorcycle or scooter passed, everyone had to run across the street to the grass on the other side, no matter what you were doing, and the last one to make it had to beer bond or chug a cup of their punch or a beer. The best rule was probably that whenever a driving school car passed (which was very often, since there was apparently a driving school right around the corner that the instructors always directed the students to this roundabout), everyone was as loud as possible and pointed at the car, trying to distract the kid. Pretty evil, pretty funny. 

The day and all of the people were a lot of fun, so I'm looking forward to the events throughout the rest of the semester. AND I'll be able to accomplish one of my goals of learning to surf!