Noise parade

I think what will be one of the most fascinating things about being an exchange student is being able to be a fly on the wall whilst kind of eating the shit (probably could've gone for a better metaphor but hey!). Like yesterday at Noise Parade - it was pretty liberating to dance around like a complete moron (all British conservatism aside) whilst watching the absolute utter craziness going on around. I mean there's crazy, then there's BRIT school crazy, and somewhere up in the outer rim of the galaxy is Reed crazy. I'm talking  full on naked people running around clashing saucepans together, pouring paint over themselves, burning a huge table sized papier mache version of The Odyssey (am still puzzling out the symbolic gesture of it) and absolutely literally embodying the Reed motto, communism, atheism and free love. That level of personal expression in utterly rejecting 'the system', defining yourself as the 'other', however might be so much so that it creates a very very exclusive esoteric community that perhaps isn't so very different from the very thing it wants to shatter. For me though, it is something absolutely incredible to watch, but be able to watch from the outside in (or maybe the inside out?) no longer being a UEA student nor a Reedie. Oh the joys of liminality.

(A fake Doyle owl made it's appearance at NP which excited me regardless. There's just something about a magical aloof and myserious bird. Reed this, and you too will be amazed. http://www.reed.edu/apply/about_reed/doyleowl.html)

On a more light and fluffy note, the other reedie/non-reedies have found my blog. And are very sad that they aren't being mentioned (a lot of egos need stroking perchance?). But at risk of looking like all I have been doing is wandering round Portland having deep thoughts about life and the nature of existence, I figured it's probably a good idea to indulge them (I realize satirical comments might just be making me look like a dick). So here some of them are. In all their glorious glory.

 (yes, we were showing Mona the joys of epilating)

 

 You guys are all so chill haha. Yes, Sidney, I realize you don't have a photo here but it's because I don't have one of you to put up, not because of said huge feministy argument we had last night... I'll sneak some more of the rest of you when you aren't looking - I'll be like a blogging ninja.