O-Week days 4-8

Day 4: Wednesday February 20, 2013

The carnival

Today was the carnival. A big bouncy castle, laser tag, a dunk tank, and lots of food was set up in the center of George Roberts.

At 1am all of George Roberts was woken up for the “Fresher Run”. This is when the freshmen are taught the GR chants and we run through campus yelling our cheers at the other colleges (dorms).

It was raining for our run, but we learned “We Are The Reapers” and were off. Only a fight broke out when we got to St. Pauls, they egged us and jumped one of the guys, but it was broken up quickly.

We got back to GR around 2am and did one last chant before heading to bed.

We Are the Reapers

We Are the Team

We Can't Be Beaten

That’s Easy Seen

At the end of the season

You'll know the reason

Why we are

the number one team

Yip Yah!

Whose Reapers?

George Roberts Reapers!

Did We Win?

We Shit’d It In!

How Did we do it?

Easy!

What Comes After G?

Rrrrrrrrr!!!!

Day 5: Thursday February 21, 2013

Lawn bowls

Tonight all of GR dressed in white and went to play lawn bowls. Once we arrived, each fresher was tied to an upperclassman. The goal was to stay tied together as long as possible. We all drank and tried to play, but no one was any good. I was tied to Chris, (or Christ- his nickname) we stayed tied until we got to Uni Club (about 5 hours). The rest of the night was spent catching up with people from my orientation in Cairns I hadn’t seen in a while and dancing.

Day 6: Friday February 22, 2013

Op Shop

Tonight was op shop (thrift shop) where everyone dresses in the most ridiculous outfit they can find. I borrowed a shirt one of the RA’s had worn last year, it wasn’t the worst outfit out there. A lot of people were dressed in little kid’s Halloween outfits. All of GR danced and drank in the JCR (next to the dinning hall) then headed to Uni Club in our ridiculous outfits, I haven’t been there once in normal clothes.

Day 7: Saturday February 23, 2013

Sponsor’s Night

Tonight was Sponsor’s Night, where each of the colleges goes out to town to the bar that sponsor’s O-Week and other events. GR’s sponsor is Mad Cow. We arrived at 7:30 and were given a limited amount of free beer and wine. The wine ran out in about 15 minutes and the beer only lasted an hour.

The rest of the night mostly involved a lot of dancing with some freshman GR friends. Although, on a random note: I got offered $3,000 to marry a guy so he could get a green card.

At 2am, a bunch of GR kids and some other JCU students got on a public bus to get back to campus, we almost got kicked off doing GR chants. When we got back to GR we did the reaper chant really loudly and then all headed to bed.

Day 8: Sunday February 24, 2013

Recovery & Awards

Today was the last day of O-Week. There was a recovery session down at the river, only a few people went, but it was nice to relax in the river for a while.

After dinner was the awards ceremony, where stupid awards are given out based on silly things that happened during O-Week. Mostly, it’s a bunch of inside jokes, but since the college is so close knit you hear about everything anyways and they were really funny.

Classes start tomorrow, apparently GR is actually very studious during the week so there will be a lot less chaos.