Drinking leads to bad things sometimes. One of the bad things it can lead to is getting into fights with random people on the streets at 2 or 3 in the morning, involving a whole group of people, and returning to CMRS without your keys and (I heard) missing a shoe. Well I guess some people had that adventure last night. They were “pre-gaming” (which, for those that don’t know, is getting drunk before you go out to club and pub on the less expensive booze bought from stores) in the dining room from around 8pm to when those of us in the common room watching movies and old episodes of Daria on DVD went to bed at 10:30/11 ish. Then this morning at breakfast we hear about them going out and “bumping into” a group of “French people” which sparked off some altercation that came quickly to blows. At least three of ours took hits to the face I am told, including a girl with them who got backhanded. If they gave as good as they got seems rather irrelevant, at least to me.
One lost set of keys, one group of banged up students, and one sorry example to set. I appreciate that they weren’t loud enough when they came in from all of this to wake me up in the middle of the night at least, but still… I had hoped some of this foolishness would stop now that we are well into the later part of the first full month here. Adjustment time is over and we all need to put on our big-boy and big-girl pants I think – I also think that Dr. Philpott might have something to say about all of this before lecture this morning. He is already going to give us a heads up about not planning trips in such a way that cause us to miss classes (as 4 of my fellows have done, leaving for Rome yesterday without thought to the classes we have this morning that they will be missing). This is a study abroad program, not a travel abroad program.
Nothing was said, maybe because our lecturer was a monk today (or priest perhaps?) or because Dr. Phillpott realized that the people who needed the lecture would be in Rome J
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