I'll start at the end: Blue in first. Green in second. Yellow third. Red last.
("Next year, first place!" I tried to get the rest of the Green team to shout, but this was drowned out by chants of "We beat Yellow!")
(Now to totally abandon any temporal coherence.)
My team lost horribly at dodgeball. I made the mistake of trying to actually throw the ball when I know that pretty much always gets me out.
Field Day actually started at 11:00 this year, with the time before used for various meetings. And a random sweep of the school by police dogs (one for bombs, one for drugs). Of course, they can't do that unless the school requests it... funnily enough, it threw off the timing of the meetings, not that it mattered.
So of course there were many fewer events this year, and they were all outside - they weren't letting people inside. Mostly. Notably, there was no Scrabble tournament; Sydney brought a Scrabble set and Annie and Emily and JT and Sydney and I (with Annie, Emily acting as one team, and JT, Sydney acting as another) - but there was no ground that was both in the shade and flat, and we went with the ground that was flat. Also nobody had a dictionary, so we couldn't really play the real way, but it hardly mattered as the game was interrupted early on anyway.
Oh, many props (gah, it seems so strange to use that word, but I can't think of a better one right now) to a freshman named - what is it, Lorenzo? I think that's it. Anyway, since the seniors of two years ago graduated, the [board]gaming had pretty much entirely left the school. As you may recall, junior year, I was very, very bored. This freshman named Lorenzo, though, has managed to revive it. He brings in Apples to Apples a lot, you see a bunch of people playing it at lunch all the time, he also brings in a bunch of other games and people actually play them. Yay!
Today of course I brought along my backpack, containing Puerto Rico, Carcassonne, Munchkin, my Icehouse pieces, my tarot deck, and my old, worn-out Chrononauts deck. (I can't find my EAC deck, and as for other board games, I couldn't fit any more.) Of course, last year I couldn't find players even on field day, but this year, I had a whole bunch of freshmen to play with! I had really hoped to play Puerto Rico but I didn't get the chance. Tom had insisted that there must be a game of Zendo, so we played that, with me as master, though that got interrupted too. Then some IceTowers, and then just some Durak and some variant of Palace, and then I joined the game of Apples to Apples that was going on outside. (We were playing all this in mod 6.) Then it was time for the final assembly.
( Annoyed, Ranty Harry: Harry is very annoyed at people who take a stupid joke seriously )
So as not to end this on such a negative note, a nice coincidence which my mom noticed a while back: This year, Field Day coincides with Lag B'Omer. :)
-Sniffnoy
("Next year, first place!" I tried to get the rest of the Green team to shout, but this was drowned out by chants of "We beat Yellow!")
(Now to totally abandon any temporal coherence.)
My team lost horribly at dodgeball. I made the mistake of trying to actually throw the ball when I know that pretty much always gets me out.
Field Day actually started at 11:00 this year, with the time before used for various meetings. And a random sweep of the school by police dogs (one for bombs, one for drugs). Of course, they can't do that unless the school requests it... funnily enough, it threw off the timing of the meetings, not that it mattered.
So of course there were many fewer events this year, and they were all outside - they weren't letting people inside. Mostly. Notably, there was no Scrabble tournament; Sydney brought a Scrabble set and Annie and Emily and JT and Sydney and I (with Annie, Emily acting as one team, and JT, Sydney acting as another) - but there was no ground that was both in the shade and flat, and we went with the ground that was flat. Also nobody had a dictionary, so we couldn't really play the real way, but it hardly mattered as the game was interrupted early on anyway.
Oh, many props (gah, it seems so strange to use that word, but I can't think of a better one right now) to a freshman named - what is it, Lorenzo? I think that's it. Anyway, since the seniors of two years ago graduated, the [board]gaming had pretty much entirely left the school. As you may recall, junior year, I was very, very bored. This freshman named Lorenzo, though, has managed to revive it. He brings in Apples to Apples a lot, you see a bunch of people playing it at lunch all the time, he also brings in a bunch of other games and people actually play them. Yay!
Today of course I brought along my backpack, containing Puerto Rico, Carcassonne, Munchkin, my Icehouse pieces, my tarot deck, and my old, worn-out Chrononauts deck. (I can't find my EAC deck, and as for other board games, I couldn't fit any more.) Of course, last year I couldn't find players even on field day, but this year, I had a whole bunch of freshmen to play with! I had really hoped to play Puerto Rico but I didn't get the chance. Tom had insisted that there must be a game of Zendo, so we played that, with me as master, though that got interrupted too. Then some IceTowers, and then just some Durak and some variant of Palace, and then I joined the game of Apples to Apples that was going on outside. (We were playing all this in mod 6.) Then it was time for the final assembly.
( Annoyed, Ranty Harry: Harry is very annoyed at people who take a stupid joke seriously )
So as not to end this on such a negative note, a nice coincidence which my mom noticed a while back: This year, Field Day coincides with Lag B'Omer. :)
-Sniffnoy
