Frosh VI

Today is Shinerama day! Basically, Shinerama is the day during frosh week where many Canadian universities spend the whole day fundraising for Cystic Fibrosis research. Woke up refreshed (relatively.) Went to the Shinerama forum where the head of the Canadian CF foundation spoke to us. Very sad, as he spoke about his daughter who has CF. Afterwards, we all crowded into Grant Hall and watched a presentation about Queen's traditions (hurrah for Scotland!) and received our tams. Mine has a red pom pom, as do all ArtSci tams. Then we all did the Oil Thigh song and dance and looked funny. ^_^

After lunch, met up with my group and headed off to Vic Park for Shinerama. Went to Wellington and Princess to shine shoes and sell raffle tickets. Unfortunately, no one really wears leather shoes in the summer, so we resorted to bribing people with songs and cheers. Got sprayed with a guy with a garden hose. Learned a new Queen's, um, song:

Spirit! Yeah, yeah we got spirit!
Yeah, we got drunk frosh, totally sloshed!
Beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer!

Gaels! Yeah, yeah, we got gaels!
Yeah, we got drunk gaels, totally whaled,
Beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer!

OCs! Yeah, yeah, we got OCs!
Yeah, we got drunk OCs, totally toasty!
Beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer!

Chairs! Yeah, yeah we got chairs!
Yeah, we got drunk chairs totally impaired!
Beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer!
We got spirit!

Apparently, Queen's reputation as a party school has prompted anti-milk groups to focus it's "Got beer?" campaign on our campus. Just what we need: more dunken frosh pulling firealarms when other not-so-drunk frosh want to sleep. Can you tell I'm bitter?

Soon, off to dinner and the ArtSci semiformal at Jock Harty, where I know no one and will probably end up dancing by myself for 3 minutes, then going back to res and sleeping early.

WET.

Postscript: Skipped out completely on the semi. Instead, I bumped into Mo at dinnertime. We (Mo, Alli, Hart, Alan and Aaron) decided to have a laundry party at Vic. Took the shuttle over to West Campus and helped Alan improvise his loft bed. Then went back to main campus and visited Mo's place (bunk beds!) Managed to fill up four washers and three dryers with our stuff. Slammed the engineers' oatmeal duds on tables, etc. to loosen caked mud and oatmeal, then dumped them all into one load. Needless to say, they were still dirty when they came out of the washer. Too bad the dryers don't really work; none of our shirts or pants came out dry. lot to hang up tonight.