Most of the people - other students from the world cultures wing - were in drag. I thought I had missed some obvious campus event, Drag Ball or a Rocky Horror screening.
Nope.
They were going drag bowling for the heck of it. Several of my hallmates left wearing my shoes (being a girl with size 11 feet does come in handy when your male-bodied friends need heels) or accessories.
Needless to say, with that whole shebang going on, coupled with yesterday's Culture Festival, I got very little work done last night. However, the cultural festival was fantastic, and I really enjoyed it. Most of the cultural groups on campus, plus some non-cultural groups (Oberlin Slow Food? I suppose it could be argued that local-food supporters are a subculture...) set up tables around the main green area on campus, Tappan Square.
Most of the tables had an activity (making crafts, doing calligraphy, et cetera) for the local children that came. It's when the college hosts activities like this that I truly appreciate how the town and the school function together; many of the area's families come to college-sponsored events.
There was also a ton of food. The German House table had four or five different varieties of cake, the French House table had crepes, there was a line thirty people long for Indian food, and one of the Spanish tables had samples of sprinkle-covered frosting balls. I don't know whose idea it was to take frosting and roll it in sprinkles and call it a Spanish dessert, but they were so tooth-achingly sweet I could feel cavities forming.
One of my friends, Emma-from-Asia-House, and I dressed up for the cultural festival; it was the first time I've gotten a chance to wear kimono out here in Ohio and I took it, getting both of us dressed up and looking fabulous. We got a lot of attention from the various people attending the festival, had several photos taken of us, and impressed our Japanese teacher.
It stayed nice for the first hour and a half or two hours of the festival, while the Oberlin College Taiko group performed and then the Chinese Student Association did a lion dance demonstration. It started to sprinkle a bit as our little group was winding down, so Asia House Emma, Emma-from-my-hall, and I came back to my dorm room. Asia House Emma and I got undressed, a much faster undertaking than getting dressed in kimono is, and the three of us watched BBC's Sherlock until we had to go to dinner.
I should have been responsible - I do have a paper due tomorrow as well as a load of other homework - but instead I chose to spend my day gallivanting around campus and town. I don't regret it, because I know I can still get everything done, I'm just feeling a little crunched for time now!
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