Nick

Monash orientations are over and Its what I expected, nothing much except hearing speeches, making friends and getting a campus introduction but there is a sports day at the end of it called Molympics.

I participated and I was put into team yellow, engineering Alpha(some schools were split into 2 as there were too many students) and we had a mascot who lived in a pineapple under the sea, Spongebob. All the games werent thoose athletic kind.There was no 100 meters sprinting or high jumping but there were dodgeball, frisbee, spongerace, blind football, marble searching, tug of war, water balloons instead.

Spongebob getting shot.

I was supposed to join frisbee and dodgeball but somehow frisbee was full. The dodgeball game was sad, my team lost after less than 1 minute. I tried to jump over a ball thrown at me but the ball bounced on the floor and touched me and I was out, how unfair.

Qouted from http://www.dodgeballusa.com/rules.html

THE GAME

The object of the game is to eliminate all opposing players by getting them “OUT”. This may be done by:

1. Hitting an opposing player with a LIVE thrown ball below the shoulders.

2. Catching a LIVE ball thrown by your opponent before it touches the ground.

Definition: LIVE: A ball that has been thrown and has not touched anything, including the floor/ground, another ball, another player, official or other item outside of the playing field (wall, ceiling, etc)

Anyway, my team didn’t win but at least we won the best mascot.

Suprisingly I got sunburned when I got home and looked like a tomato. The weather diddn’t felt that hot during the games as it was pretty cloudy or maybe I diddn’t feel the heat and was just distracted by hotness from other sources.

Monash classes starts on tomorrow, Is that a good thing or a bad thing?