First Tri-Annual Drinking Games Extravaganza Part One Redux

Yes, it was quite the extravaganza. It definately took after its name. The premise was this: On Hai Dang street there are four beautiful houses in which teachers reside. It seemed appropriate to have a 'house crawl' of sorts, where each house hosts a drinking game. Games on the list were beirut, flip cup, beer pong, and dice hockey.
The idea was grand, the night was grand, but the idea and the night were not the same. Here's what I mean. We intended to hit 4 houses, have 4 teams, and run exciting games. Unfortunately, those in charge were myself, Adam Stevens, and Alex Stone Loeb. And in fact is was pretty much Alex's baby. So when preperations were needed, little preperation was made. Two of the houses dropped out, two of the teams were non-existent. Tables and ping pong paddles were difficult if not impossible to come across. Our table ended up being nothing but the top of a skid.
So we picked up 20L of beer from a bia hoi, purchasing each litre for 5500 dong, or about 38 american cents. 20 L put us back about 8 dollars. We went to the first house with half the beer, and started on flip cup. We soon realized that we were drinking fast. 6 games of flip cup, and we were done 8 L. We fetched the last 10 L, and moved onto Beirut. Matt and I took on Alex and Stuart first, and finished them off in an overtime battle. then Adam and Liz stepped up, and were turned away by team Beavgle. the losers had there battle, and then the beer was finished.
At the same time we decided to get more beer, our two vietnamese friends showed up. Our co-worker, Mai, wasn't drinking, but her friend Uyen was apparently up for boozin. So Alex and Uyen fetched another 20 L, and the games began again. Teams were Alex, Mai, Uyen and Liz versus myself, Adam, Stu and Matt. In otherwords, they looked lobsided. However, Mai and Uyen were quick learners and could flip the cup with the best of us, and made for a nice battle. The men's team emerged victorious after severral rounds, but it was definately a great game. Then Beirut was played again, with team Beavgle taking on Uyen and Liz. Uyen once again showed her drinking game prowess, and learned quickly. Her and Liz did a grand job and sinking the ping pong balls, but team Beavgle was too much. We once again emerged victorious, and retired for the night undefeated.
With 6 L to go, we chilled on the games, and jsut drank socially. People left as the hour crept, but four of us stayed to finish the beer. By 3 am all 40 L had been drank. I joined Liz for a box of kraft dinner while adam got rice for the late night munchies, and it was home to bed.
The first tri-annual extravaganza was a success, and we can only hope that future events will follow in the tradition.
Cheers.

Wow

It has been a really long time since a blog has been written. I don't know what that means. I know that the last month has been really fun, and has had lots of changes that are worth noting. First of all, Adam and I are both on a tuesday, thursday, saturday, sunday schedule. So we get three days of nothing each week. It is really spectacular. And our buddy Alex also has the same schedule, so we have been having a lot of fun as of late. It's really nice to just hang out a lot more. I'm pretty sure that's why I came here :)
The weather has become really hot. Yesterday it was apparently 37 celcius. Right now it is 32, and will not doubt heat up over the next couple hours. It's so hot it hurts. And walking with bare feet over rock or cement that has been heated by the sun is nearly impossible.
The water has been beautiful since the heat came. There haven't been waves, so the water has been the beautiful blue colour we hope for. It's a little boring, and means we spend more time at the bar than in the sea, but it's still wonderful.
Friday was an interesting day. Three of our vietnamese friends came over and cooked us brunch. These three girls just came into our house, brought a whole bunch of food, and cooked for us. We didn't have to do anything. Really really strange and wonderful. Something I never would have expected.
Our school is in utter disrepair. They are doing renovations, so we are in this small classroom instead of the teachers room, with drilling and hammering going on constantly. It has improved since last week, but there is construction dust everywhere. It should be a better situation once it is finished though.
I just remembered we get our six month pay raise starting this month, so that's nice. And it's also tax season, and I just found out I get a decent amount of money back, while Adam get his tree-planting revenue back. So things are ironing out. Although the computer is acting up quite a bit.
Before I jinx myself I will sign off. If I don't write everything this time, it will give me an excuse to write again :)
So long from Beach Club.
Brandon.