Monday, December 26, 2005

Half Way There!!!!

Can you guys actually believe it? Like Jeff's MSN says: We're half a lawyer... well sort of.

This exam season was brutal (completely ruining the holiday season... for the most part). With 2 exams on the last two days there was not much time to actually enjoy oneself. But one thing was sure... December 21st was dedicated to the forgetting that the past 3 weeks had ever happened. With Evidence being the last exam for many of us and most of us dispearsing to different parts of the country either that same night or within the next few days we had more then enough reasons to go out and have a blast.

Post exam the drinking began at Koerners with a steady flow of beer. That was followed up by dinner at Banana Leaf (for some of us) and for others the Jolly Alderman and various other venues. Eventually a decent group of us ended up at Lolas till the wee-morning hours of closing time.


That left a mere 2-3 days to get all of Christmas organized... - well I guess we're law students capable of functioning under pressure!


Happy Holidays to all you guys!!! Enjoy your time off (before hell breaks loose again)! Have a great New Year! And well - congrats on being half a lawyer!


Kasia

Steph actually came with a blanket. Let's just hope that it wasn't there for her mid-exam nap.

The last exam... on the last day...

Getting ready...

Just looking at that smile is enough to make anyone feel confident...

Last minute discussions...

With 20 billion cans in front of me I think I'm all set... one of these people had to have known the answer...

Trying to avoid the camera never works... you should know that Jeff.

In deep concentration?

It truly was freezing in that room...

Someone looks awfully happy right before their exam... must have felt quite confident.

The look of love?

Isn't that called cheating? Having an MP3 player in during exams? - Well... I guess same could be said about a camera...

At the other end of the table!

Post exam at Koerners, or? What's Bruce still doing with a laptop - and Adam is way too deep in thought for an occassion that was supposed to be dedicated to alcohol.

Post exam at Koerners. Drinking the exams away...

Post exam at Koerners.

Post exam at Koerners.

Post exam at Koerners.

We originally had plans to go out for dinner to Banana Leaf but couldn't get reservations since supposedly everything was packed. Not even two tables of 4. The hostess was actually quite desperate to get rid of me over the phone. Well... we showed up with 6 to wait for the rest which thought that we'd be eating there. Figured we'd check if we could get anything. And well... wouldn't you know, they had a table of six free... a table that actually ended up fitting 8 easily. But somehow 2 more ended up showing up and we got escoreted to the VIP room with a table for 10. Who'd know that without reservations in a fully booked restaurant you'd get treatement like that. And the food was truly excellent!!!!!

At Banana Leaf (in the VIP room)

The dinner crowd (well... that's if you can call 1 a crowd)

The dinner crowd.

The dinner crowd.

The dinner crowd!

Post dinner goof-offs.

And that's it... last shot of the night - the rest of it was spent at Lolas

Sunday, November 20, 2005

The RHINOS First Rugby Game!!!!!!

Some statistics:

Number of years Rhions have been in existence: 1.5
Number of players who had prior rugby experieince: 3-4
Number of games played together (prior to this): 0
Score (complete and absolute guess): 0 - 50+
Number of bloody noses: 1
Number of stepped on faces: 1 (theirs)
Number of punches thrown: probably more than permissible
Amount of effort put in: immeasurable
Value of this experience: PRICELESS

Well... maybe the score doesn't show it, but we sure do feel like we won! The RHINOS kicked some but out there. We weren't scared, we didn't run (unless it was after them) nor did we duck. We went right through the center taking everything they threw at us. Had the wind knocked out of us, got stepped on, got scratched, got shoved, got lifted and thrown, got bloody noses... well.. essentially got our asses wooped! And yet we had fun!

It was a great learning experience and all of us can't wait for the next opportunity to roll around in the mud and clobber complete strangers that most of the time are twice our size (and be clobbered by them)! What more can you desire!


So if you weren't there this time round... come out to our future games in the spring semester!



Kasia and the RHINOS!


PS: look out for the "Mercy Club" in the hallways of the law buidling!

Robin's taped-up ear! Posted by Picasa

Driving it forward! Posted by Picasa

Line-out! Posted by Picasa

Taking them DOWN! Posted by Picasa

Scrumming it off! Posted by Picasa

Ready to take them on! Posted by Picasa

Team huddle! Posted by Picasa

Our competition! Posted by Picasa

Taking it to them!!! GO RHINOS GO!!! Posted by Picasa

Heather - exhausted and needing to be subbed out. Posted by Picasa

Chasing after something... Posted by Picasa

Robin - at the bottom of it all - with "bottoms" sticking out! Posted by Picasa