RAG Bop

This past week was RAG week. During RAG week, the university raises money for various charities and in the process has a lot of really fun things for students to do. Unfortunately, the only event I attended was the RAG week Bop. This week's bop featured something so much better than really loud club music and over-priced drinks. A mechanical bull and "jelly shots" (by this, of course, the Brits mean Jell-O shots). A go on the mechanical bull was £1, and jelly shots were 50p. After a cider to loosen ourselves up, Terry and I decided we should try our skills on the mechanical bull...for charity, of course. Terry went first and, although she was wearing slippery tights and screamed like a little girl, she lasted much longer than I did. After 27 seconds, the bull had thrown her. After squishing a jelly into my mouth, I manned up and stepped into the queue. I borrowed the operator's cowboy hat to try to add to my mojo. After only 19 seconds, I was flying off the bull. I guess the hat didn't bring me luck like I had hoped. No matter, it was a fun 19 seconds and in the process, I donated a pound to charity! Nice.

All bulled out we decided to head to the dance floor and get our groove on. By this time, the rest of our group had joined us and the bop was in full swing. We played some balloon volleyball while we danced to surprisingly good club music playing at a ridiculously loud volume. Unfortunately, at 12:30, I decided I needed to call it a night. Saturday was my first class of this term and it started at 9. Humph. I'm happy to say that, though it was one of my shortest Bop experiences, it was certainly one of my favourite.