Party Weekend - The ICEBREAKER

On Friday night after the day of scooter training me and Stu had happily sat down in my room to watch the next episode of Lie To Me. About 15 minutes into the episode all of the lights in my room went out as did the street light outside and the lights in the barracks opposite. We quickly got up and looked out the window to see that the whole town had actually gone out putting a small damper on our movie night plans. Cecille, our flatmate, told us that this had happened a couple of times last term and that all we had to do was make sure each of the doors was closed to keep the heat in (the power station powers the pumps that transport the water round town so the radiators were off). We went back to watching Lie To Me and a few minutes later Andrew showed up for the movie night fun (it must have blacked out on his way over). After we finished the episode we decided to go to the living room to join some other who had gathered there with the candles. As the Icebreaker was on the Saturday night I had already made my head torch into a makeshift Star Trek phaser and ended up walking around with that (very silly). After only at most and hour and a half of blackout, the power came back on with a cheer and we set about getting the projector for the intended movie night. We watched Star Trek 6 then rearranges Stu’s room so that we could set up the projector in there and stop hogging the living room. We then all spent the evening drinking beer and some wine while eating brownies and fish and chips watching loads of TV.
The next day I did not wake up until 11 and decided to stay in bed anyway. Stu still did not have a costume for the icebreaker in the evening so I set about looking on the net for any movie or TV show set in the future so that I could get ideas for a simple costume. At around 1400, 4 hours before the icebreaker was due to start I settled on a thunderbirds costume that I could make using some red material I had found in the kitchen. It turned out pretty well considering I have not sown in years and have actually never seen thunderbirds. I was going dressed as a Star Trek red shirt, another show that I have scarcely watched.
The Icebreaker party is a gathering organized by all of the new students at UNIS where we have a meal, dancing and lots and lots of alcohol. Each Icebreaker party has a theme and this term we picked Time this is then split into four groups, prehistoric, medieval, 60’s/70’s and the future. Stu and I were in the future while Frances and Andrew were back in prehistory.
The cantina was decorated in the different themes and everyone was elaborately dressed with some amazing costumes. My favourite was Ingrid’s, one of our flat mates, who had come dressed as Apollo 11’s Saturn V rocket for the 60’s and 70’s especially awesome when she was dancing later on in the evening.

The meal was awesome and brilliantly prepared by the food group, while the entertainment group provided some entertaining songs one of which Stu had to sing a solo line, hilarious.
The whole evening was amazing and loads of fun getting to know everyone a bit more and drinking strange concoctions till 3 in the morning down at UNIS. We then piled into a taxi and headed to the after party in barrack 4, I only lasted till just gone 4 before heading home leaving Stu to have fun with the hangover he would get the next morning from the horrid beer they were drinking and the dreaded port. All in all it was an awesome night making a great number of new friends, so I will take that as a win.