Ivanhoe

This last week was Ivanhoe, the Mackenzie tower competition. It was a lot of fun. The week felt like it went on forever, but that was probably because there wasn't much sleeping involved. Every night there was a sword hunt in the middle of the night, like at 2 or 3 in the morning. They are like treasure hunts, where you get a clue and have to go find the other clues. Then when you have them all you tape them together so there is a picture of a sword on the back, and the first team back wins. We won two of those. Other events were a tug of war in the field, we had to build a sled out of materials they gave us in one hour, and then race them, there was a relay race through the tower, with something different to do on each floor (we won that), and lots of other things. In the end we came in first after all the events of the week, but then they added on the points for the crusades, and we ended in fourth. The crusades are things you do for points. The ones with the most points involved going to Vancouver and the US, and other trips. We didn't do many of those, because no one wanted first of all to pay to go on one of those trips, and also no one wanted to miss that many classes. And we couldn't do the shorter trips because the only car that belongs to someone on our floor broke down on Monday. So everyone on my floor feels very ripped off.

Nothing else is new with me. My classes all seem to be going pretty well, if a little boring. My math prof doesn't really speak English well, and he can't say most of the letters of the alphabet. The rest of my instructors all are fluent in English, so that is a nice change from last semester.