Sunday was the day that I changed my entire drinking strategy. I was sick and tired of drinking all day and night and then sobering up on the bus to schoolies or in the line to get into the party areas or whatever, so I decided that I wouldn’t drink until later on in the day... as in, I wouldn’t drink until like four in the afternoon. My plan was thrown out the window at like one when everyone else started drinking and I felt left out... so I grabbed a beer and got my drink on. Sunday was also the day where Stephen Sagris arrived at the house, and this means that our schoolies group was complete. Stephen arrived with snacks and an entire case of Corona that he said is ours for the taking because he doesn’t like it. Looking back on schoolies I kind of regret not having any of his free beer but then again, I do still have a case of beer just sitting there that I didn’t finish... so yeah, it’s not like I didn’t have enough.
I was happy with Sunday though, drinking-wise... everyone picked on me because they thought I hadn’t been drinking enough, which in a way I probably hadn’t been, so we played this Snakes and Ladders drinking game that Chris had and it got me absolutely fucked. I was already fucked off my tits, but then I went into the toilet to take a piss and somehow the mirror in the bathroom fell and as mirrors do when they hit the ground or hardened/tiled surface, much like the piss that gravity brought down to Kenny, the mirror was brought down to the ground. Because I broke the mirror, Jack said that I need to do seven shots of Red Bear, one after the other to erase the seven years bad luck that I had just acquired.
Now there must be something about shots that just fucks you up a lot more than drinking it normally. I don’t know what it is but shots just... get you a fuck load more fucked. Even though I was shotting Red Bear’s, it still got me absolutely fucked, and it did the same for the others who were shotting beer or UDL or whatever non spirit they were shotting. During the day Andrew got his second hook up which unlike his first, he wants to keep minimalistic so that we don’t have to talk about it... like at all, so let’s just leave it at that. Andrew was now on two, and Chris was on three... Tom and I were still on nothing and had some serious catching up to do... well not really but we just didn’t want to end up on nothing after three days. Jack told me that my main problem was that I was trying too hard, he said that if you don’t try, they will go for you. I found this strategy ridiculous, but I decided to give it a try at the start of the night at least.
Skipping to the festival, Jack and I made our way to the big tent pretty much straight away, in search for girls for me to ‘not try on’... We made our way pretty much to the centre of the crowd where Tyler Johns took that photo of us that I used for the first schoolies blog. Then when I turned around and looked in the direction that Jack was previously in, he was gone. I started to walk through the crowd looking for him, but at the same time looking for girls to help me take the lead over Tom. The competition had converted from ‘you have to go for any girl that goes for you’ to ‘you have to go for every girl’. I don’t know how to explain it but I walked past this girl and brushed up on her ever so slightly as I passed, I looked back at her to see her coming towards me, she pulls me in and starts hooking up with me for like thirty seconds. Her friends then came and pulled me off her and said she had a boyfriend or something and that’s when I just grabbed my phone and sent Tom a text.
Im on one
Sent: 22-NOV-09
11:03pm
I then left the tent and found Jack talking to Reaghan. Now Jack is fairly good friends with Reaghan I think, and despite being in her home group for the last three years, I don’t think that I have really ever talked to her. Jack was trying to get her to hook up with me using the old ‘if you don’t hook up with Cosma I will never talk to you ever again,’ technique... also known as the Brett Aitken technique. Reaghan said that she didn’t want to but she would kiss me, so she did. Then she kissed Jack, and then me, and then Jack... repeatedly... she was trying to convince us that she loved us equally or something, I don’t really remember, but neither does she because when I talked to her about it the other day she had no recollection of anything from Sunday night.
Jack and I made it back to the tent where I tried to increase my one nil victory over Tom. We find Tom and I asked him if he got my text and he said that he is also on one. This means that I had to try my hardest to get another one and overtake Tom... or just not try again and hope for the same thing to somehow happen. I find Blesing and I give him a huge hug, I turn around and I am standing behind this girl who is moderately attractive I think. Blesing then pushed me into her and then she turned around and... It was like the exact same thing as last time. The only thing is, I don’t remember anything about what this girl looks like, but it’s not like I remember much about the first one either. I kind of remember the first girl, but I don’t even think I would recognise her in the street... wait, no I just somehow remembered her, okay... I don’t know who she was or anything, I mean not a word was said and no numbers were exchanged or anything but yeah, I remember what she looks like all of a sudden, somehow. The second girl though I have no idea. I asked Blesing if he knew who she was and he said that she was in a green dress or something but that didn’t help me really at all...
I then found Tom again who was still on one, I then found the incredibly happy to see me looking Reaghan who I danced with for a bit before bailing on Tom, who ended up getting with Reaghan just after I left. Chris got with another three... I left the big tent in search for people and this is where my memory cuts out, I remember taking a piss on the beach with Christie Brook, and I think Tom was there as well, and I remember getting on the bus to go home. Then I checked my phone and I remembered that Cee Alii put her number in my phone because she said that she wants me over at hers for drinks after. This is where my memory comes back into play, Jack and I were sitting on the bus and I started texting her. We got off the bus, went back home and got some food. Started walking over to Cee Alii’s place and when we got there, the big welcome that we had expected was replaced with a dull and anonymous ‘hey’. We felt incredibly out of place so we said that we would go home and get drinks and that we would be back. On the walk back home Jack and I talked about how it is almost like every school gets along with each other, and then there’s Unley. Unley seems to be its own thing and every other school seems to the rest of the world. It probably doesn’t make much sense to you right now but it was one of the most amazing talks ever and it made perfect sense to us at the time.
Andrew Heinicke 2
Chris Tankosic 6
Nick Cosma 2
Tom Wilkin 2
We went home, talked, went to bed, woke up, cleaned up and left Goolwa forever. As in not forever but so far we haven’t been back yet so it is still forever as far as now is concerned. Coming home was weird... not because mum kept asking what happened, but mainly because of how different life is at home. When I got home I took a shit on the toilet with the door closed and locked so mum wouldn’t walk in, where at Goolwa there wasn’t even a door separating the bathroom from the normal house, and when you are shitting, there would be someone in the shower next to you. By someone in the shower next to you, I mean that there were at least two or three people in the shower next to you because having the privilege of having a shower by yourself was a rare one. In a way I am glad to be home, but in another way, I miss it. Then there is that other way but let’s not talk about that way. It was just so much fun, I would do it all again if doing so didn’t warrant me being called a toolie...
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