Friday night: most of the guys on my dragon boat team and myself got 'mohawk' hair cuts - this took a couple of hours - then some of us went to a local 24 hour grocery store to show off our look and pick up food for Saturday's racing. Strangely, the employees didn't seem shocked nor surprised at our hair - have mohawks become accepted hair styles or were they able to restrain their reaction to avoid a confrontation with us punks? probably neither - it was getting late and we all needed to get some rest...
Saturday: woke up before 6am to shower and eat some oatmeal and pack for the day's regatta... 6:30 at SLC - only neel, tom, and lily show up and so we quickly head over to the golden arches to grab b-fast - get back by 7am and we're soon on our way to Laurel Creek. We set up Storm Warning's camp site and from around 8-8:30 it actually rains like a mofo - we're supposed to race at 8:40 but it's delayed - thankfully neel brought his canopy and dan h. his tent... The ground conditions were all muddy and shit but the water was calm and the sun was shining as we raced our heat as planned. We broke off from the open teams and easily finish 1st by nearly a boat length. Our next race came after 'lunch time' and we finished in 4th out of 6th - i think a lot of us expected and feel that we should have finished at least 3rd but wash-riding didn't help us as planned. Unfortunately we just miss the university final division and race in the consolation division. We all hope to win this race and get some hardware... Alas, it was a very close finish as we lose to another UT team by less than half a second for first place - but we beat other teams that destroyed us in the Toronto regatta and have definitely improved since then. Afterwards, we have a potluck/houseparty over at haran's. I bring my DC and we watch a slideshow of the pics i took that day on TV and later play some fun social games like '1up/1down', 'tobasco sauce' (?), and 'mafia'... It was a great learning experience from a padding perspective and produced new friends, memories, and fun times from a social perspective! Hopefully we can get together after this season as most of us won't be in UW anymore...
Sunday: went and saw I, Robot with neel and james at galaxy... the theatre was surprisingly empty when we went in 40 mins early (it was the opening w/e afterall). The film didn't meet our expectations as the plot was weak, the special effects were a little too plentiful/obvious, a lot of elements we've seen in other movies before, Will Smith's character avoids certain death many times, and Will Smith and Bridget Moynahan didn't form an entertaining or interesting duo...
Finally, yes i still have the 'mohawk' and i'll keep it for a week and then shave it off.
Saturday: woke up before 6am to shower and eat some oatmeal and pack for the day's regatta... 6:30 at SLC - only neel, tom, and lily show up and so we quickly head over to the golden arches to grab b-fast - get back by 7am and we're soon on our way to Laurel Creek. We set up Storm Warning's camp site and from around 8-8:30 it actually rains like a mofo - we're supposed to race at 8:40 but it's delayed - thankfully neel brought his canopy and dan h. his tent... The ground conditions were all muddy and shit but the water was calm and the sun was shining as we raced our heat as planned. We broke off from the open teams and easily finish 1st by nearly a boat length. Our next race came after 'lunch time' and we finished in 4th out of 6th - i think a lot of us expected and feel that we should have finished at least 3rd but wash-riding didn't help us as planned. Unfortunately we just miss the university final division and race in the consolation division. We all hope to win this race and get some hardware... Alas, it was a very close finish as we lose to another UT team by less than half a second for first place - but we beat other teams that destroyed us in the Toronto regatta and have definitely improved since then. Afterwards, we have a potluck/houseparty over at haran's. I bring my DC and we watch a slideshow of the pics i took that day on TV and later play some fun social games like '1up/1down', 'tobasco sauce' (?), and 'mafia'... It was a great learning experience from a padding perspective and produced new friends, memories, and fun times from a social perspective! Hopefully we can get together after this season as most of us won't be in UW anymore...
Sunday: went and saw I, Robot with neel and james at galaxy... the theatre was surprisingly empty when we went in 40 mins early (it was the opening w/e afterall). The film didn't meet our expectations as the plot was weak, the special effects were a little too plentiful/obvious, a lot of elements we've seen in other movies before, Will Smith's character avoids certain death many times, and Will Smith and Bridget Moynahan didn't form an entertaining or interesting duo...
Finally, yes i still have the 'mohawk' and i'll keep it for a week and then shave it off.
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