By Zoë Goldsborough
After spending most of the afternoon in the pouring rain during the Beach Walk, I for one was looking forward to the pubcrawl. A nice warm bar, free snacks with every round and just a general dry atmosphere. The kids still had to face the elements every twenty minutes or so when it was time to ‘crawl’ to the next dry place, but this meant they got to participate in all the fun games we godparents were waiting to play with them. Despite the not completely favorable weather, the new students were not discouraged. Yes, their polos might have been soaked, so they could not wear them and they might have been cold and/or tired, but still they brought nothing but enthusiasm with them on the crawl.
Charlotte Stuijt and I were manning the Tympaan, a bar where in my Introweek the challenge was to give a lap dance. I was unsure whether I was happy or kind of disappointed that the challenge had been changed, but either way it was now the human knot game that the families had to excel in. I could try to explain the human knot game here, but I have done that plenty of times during the crawl, and it speaks for itself, really. Shouting instructions to about 20 people is not one of my hobbies, and it’s no wonder my voice pretty much died that evening. Still, the first families caught on extremely fast. The parents noticed just as fast that we could potentially be bribed with free drinks. Something which was good for my wallet but perhaps not as great for my liver.
For one night, stamps were the most wanted currency. The families were willing to go far for them. Never have I heard this many High School Musical songs in one night, or seen such a wide range of Shia Lebeouf ‘Just Do It’ impressions. Especially the latter were extremely motivating and they made me wonder if I shouldn’t be preparing for my courses instead of standing in a bar. The human knot game became more and more difficult as the night progressed, until eventually neither Charlie nor I were still sure how it actually worked. All in all, it was a wonderful night with great people, who do not let a little rain discourage them.
Zoë Goldsborough, Class of 2017 is a biology and cognitive science major from Leeuwarden, the Netherlands .
