So what is it that keeps G from sleeping at night? If you thought 80's roller skating was bad, this is almost unbearable. :)
Every year, near the middle of September, when students are still getting settled into their dorms and familiar with their new class schedules, there is an event that makes all else jump one number down on the priority list. All inhibitions are thrown out the window. All worry of making a good impression? Tossed. Costumes are mandatory, throwing arms a must, and music is blaring as students line up, dorm against dorm, in the biggest dodgeball tournament most have ever seen.
It's crazy.
Stewart (our dorm) is in the red.
Yes, we consider each one of those red-wearing t-shirts one of our kids.
We don't start at the infant stage.
We start at the 18 year old, what's your name again?, really loud college stage.
They're pretty cool.
This is Stewart (red) taking on Horton (black).
There is really hardly any room left to play dodgeball.
There's a lot of dancing, costume strutting, goofing going on. :)
One rule that they hold to that I've never seen before is that once you get knocked out, you can still actually play. You can run to the back of the other team, get your team to throw the balls over their heads, and then get them out from the other side. So near the end of the game,
you've got dodge balls flying at you from all angles.
A good shot of most of the colors.
Here are more pictures, with lots of the costumes highlighted.
And finally, here's a video made by one of the students:
It highlights Horton, but shows a lot of the crazy that goes on.
You'll notice some "rescuing" near the middle of the film.
The green team is Emerson, a smaller dorm that usually doesn't have a chance at winning so they make it theatrical. This year they were dressed as doctors and nurses and were putting band-aids on the fallen and doing shock treatment on the "mortally wounded". Clever. :)
There's always something going on around campus.
Keeps us young, I guess. :)
We love it.
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