This just a taste of one of the many songs we learned in preparation for Game Day! Well, half learned. Here's another. This one is my personal favorite - at the end of it, everyone throws toast at the cheerleaders.
"Drink a highball at nightfall, be good fellows while you may, for tomorrow may bring sorrow, so tonight, let's all be gay! Tell the story of glory, of Pennsylvania, Drink a highball and be jolly, here's a TOAST to dear old Penn!" (at this point, the aim is to throw as much toast as you can and try to hit as many cheerleaders as you can with said toast. Not going to lie, this was the best part of my weekend.)
Saturday night was the first Football game of the season; UPenn Quakers versus Villanova Wildcats. So, some of my fellow exchange students and I decided we'd go along and see what this whole Football thing is about. First, however, we needed some School Spirit. Which we got. In SPADES.
Ella, Ooffii and Me, being super full of Pride. (Ella is prepresenting instead of representing - her hoodie was actually a Penn hoodie. Just for the record) Before we left we had a bit of a pep-rally of our own, while our lovely Guides (some of the RAs from Stouffer house) made lots and lots and lots of toast. Evidence of Epic Amounts of Penn Pride:
After we were sufficiently psyched up, we headed over to Franklin Field, with our very own marching band escort. Franklin Field seats 52.5 thousand people. Needless to say, the stadium wasn't even CLOSE to being filled. (Mainly because most people are apathetic about the Quakers to say the least.)
The game itself wasn't great. Well, okay, to give you an idea - Villanova scored within 5 seconds of kickoff. But the Quakers did fight back pretty hard, and in the end we only lost 13-3. Hah.So that wasn't spectacular, but it was a lot of fun. We did a lot of shouting, and a LOT of throwing toast.
Nico got really into the spirit of things as well, of course.
Toast is for throwing, not for eating.
Just some of the toast that was on the field after the end of the 3rd quarter Toast-Song.
Tom may LOOK like he's faking excitement but it is definitely 100% genuine.
As for Football - I'm still not entirely sure I get it, but at least I could follow the general gist of the thing. Anyways who needs to understand it when you could just stare at the boys and their very tight shorts? ;)
Next sporting event: October 2, Phillies vs Marlins. Watch this space.
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