The mighty phoenix.

Today was first contact with another college, Grace College our sister college. After another bout with the Sir's and PT we went for another shower run and met on the hill in dress shoes and boxers. Accompanying our nakedness were homemade bow ties and flowers. This was our apparel to greet our sister college and following events.

Grace College's lovely ladies

Carrying Viva el Presiente Sir Brumby

What are we doing...

We performed our perfected Sunshine Mountain greeting. The ladies of Grace College kindly accepted our gifts (handmade flowers), these ranged from garden flowers to napkins to cardboard boxes and anything in between. We walked them back to the King's dining hall linked arms all the way like the gentlemen we are. What really confused me was how little ladies eat! Each King's fresher was to serve breakfast for their Grace lady, I didn't think that I gave her much.... She ate only a fraction of what it served!

"Magikarp, use splash!"

"Rapidash, use Flamethrower!"

"Rapidash, use tackle!"

"Squirtle, use water gun!"

 The Sir's were bored. Magikarp, Squirtle and Rapidash were called forth to compete in Pokemon Stadium! 
This was utterly unexpected, these guys had no idea what was going on! It was hilarious though!
"Magikarp, you're useless!"
"Rapidash, where's the fire!"
 
The day was all about Grace, we had lunch and went ice skating with them. Practically none of the freshers of either college knew how to skate, everybody was failing pretty hard. Somehow all of the exec's were awesome! Unbeknown to us they must have been skating for weeks beforehand, they kept their cool, still professional and we were still the gumbies... "Who has balls?" The King's exec asked. We all raised our hands, an exec skated up with his shirt off and slid across the ice and followed to ask who wanted to go through with it. I was one, I followed through three times.

Slippery Salmon

We then headed back to Grace to dine with them before the bush dance. The barbeque wasn't quite filling, but what should I have expected from this mornings breakfast! We continued to "speed date", getting into round shape (hardly a circle). Grace ladies in one ring and King's freshers in another, we introduced ourselves and talked for 30 seconds before shifting clockwise.

Gandalf's staff

The bush dance was interesting to say the least, it was the first sort of party that I had attended with strangers... I was intimidated to say the least, I ended up just talking to ladies I knew from home until more Grace ladies passed by and joined the conversation. From there I just drifted, I met some lovely Grace ladies and some more King's freshers. Overall I had a good night and good day. I'm looking forward to tomorrow!

So it begins!

"Small circles freshers!"

After getting to sleep at 2am the last thing that I expected was to be waking up to Lamb of God penetrating the dark! The Sir's were patrolling the hall slamming on doors, "Wake up freshers!!" Little did I know comfort and time are not what we had, I was late coming into the quad for our second confrontation. The PT had commenced. Not much needs to be said, I found it hard, probably because I do all my work in a pool... They gave us a good challenge. I felt sorry for those who weren't so fit. We had 10 minutes to get to our rooms have a shower and back on the hill! We had to learn to be quick and efficient, this wasn't going to be the only time.

"We hate gaps!"

After breakfast we learned two dances! Out in the middle of the quad with the harsh sun beating down on us we tried and failed time after time until we had Sunshine Mountain and Father Abraham perfected. By the end of this session the majority of us we sweaty, sunburns and stained by grass, another shower run was in motion. This would prove pointless as we were off to paintball, for hours! Our burnt battered bodies could take it, we were on the road to becoming Kingsmen!

Waterside!

King's obstacle course, picture are worth one thousand words..

"Hurry up freshers! Force through the mud!"

"Don't forget your kegs!"

"We want to go a paddle! Take us to the water"
"Oh, we forgot our life jackets. Bring us back up!"

"You're half way there! Keep running freshers!"

 









After a scant serving of food at paintball we returned to King's for a sufficient dinner before moving out to destination unknown. "You will have fun tonight." Is all they left us with. We went all the way out to Chermside Westfield to go ten pin bowling, finally something that we could relax into! This was short lived, after two games we were shuttled back to King's to another late night of hazing. We learned "Can't keep my eyes off of you" and the King's College war cry, once again hours passed and we were ready. We performed our practice in out the back of Women's College, we had not met another college and I did not know what to make of it. We were having fun.


The first full day was over. We had no idea what we were going ourselves into, It is going to be a long week. But, we wanted more!