Jack-o-London surprise!

It was strange to experience Halloween over here. Not because it was so different but because it was so similar. I mean it was nearly identical to how it would be at home…the difference was that I was not at home. As much as candy and costumes are part of Halloween there is so much more to it that is indescribable and personal and cant really be replicated outside of your home. Little things that you never knew you associated with Halloween that make it Halloween for you and no one else. That aside…I had a good time. Me and some mates baked and decorated some sweet holiday cookies, carved out some wicked pumpkins and revelled in the bliss of a 90’s American pop playlist.

Badminton: I won two of my three matches, which was good but you can never stop thinking about the one loss. I guess badminton works like tennis in that you rank your doubles teams one through three and then each set of partners plays each of the others sets. When I refer to myself in the singular I really mean my partner and I. Apparently the rules of badminton have just changed (fortunately I didn’t know them to begin with) to incorporate a rally scoring system (point per play as opposed to scoring points only on your serve) much like volleyball and games go to 21. So I lost to the first ranked team 24-22 (win by 2), 21-18, 21-18. I KNOW, we should have won. Then beat the second and third ranked teams but each time taking three games to do it. A lot of that was just simply making mistakes, I missed a lot of serves which didn’t used to matter as much because you just lost your serve but now it also gives the other team a point. So for my first badminton match ever I think it went pretty well. We have a home match in a couple weeks so maybe I’ll try and score some video of it…and knock someone unconscious with the shuttle. Surprise!