Geeky Yet Waterproof

As you are probably aware, Wednesday was All Hallow’s Eve, and ’twas not spent sitting on a couch wishing we had candy.



There was a Halloween party for all the fencers at the Salle, at which I showed up masquerading as Le Roi Edmond l’Impermeable — King Edmond the Waterproof. At said party, we discovered that zombies, kings, Romans, vampires, gorillas, cavemen, and Captain Hook, when combined with swords, are a dangerous combination.



















There were various games, including bobbing for apples, a donut eating contest (which I, unfortunately, won), balloon stabbing, and Candy Corn Bingo. Then there was the Mummy Wrapping, which quickly degenerated into… well, I’ll let you see for yourself in the video…







There was also a skit performed, to which I wrote the screenplay the day before:



Note: whether by chance or by the plan of the immortal gods, the following video stops at 1:23, even though there is more after this point. To continue the video, just drag the slider a little farther until you see the rest of the video start up.




And finally, last but not least, is my Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy pumpkin:

I don’t turn 16 until tomorrow, but I already an early birthday present: a sword!

I’ve been enjoying my newly acquired Legality With a Sword lately by going sparring three times so far this week. However, I only sparred about three people last night because for the last 45 minutes, we all just sat around in the salle playing other people’s guitars. It’s a good thing I recently started learning guitar, or I’d have been one of the only ones still sparring, and therefore, Weird.

We all graduated from the Intro 1 fencing camp yesterday, and now we’re officially allowed to spar. Yes, that’s right: we can stab people all we want.

Here are some photos from yesterday, and below is a video of one of the games we played. The object of this game was basically to forget our form and just run around stabbing people.