Ensoc BBQ

I had participated in the ENSOC's (Engineering Society of Canterbury) annual end of term BBQ. And it was quite crazy.

Upon waiting on a line which stretches across Ilam rugby fields for over an hour, sometimes more, you join 1900 other students in a fenced in area. They shouldn't call this a BBQ, because there is a puny line for sausages on toast(of course) with about 6 people standing on line. To the left of this stand, is about 500 students pushing and squeezing and screaming to get to the front of the line where there is: 60 kegs of Alcohol. Not bad eh? Not bad when you hear how fast these kiwis (and myself) went through it: 2 hours.

In the center of the party is a roped off arena for the chundy-mile: Final year ENSOC students dressed in wacky costumes run around to various stations where they have to chug beer, eat raw eggs on toast (or throw them at eachother) and sloppy-joe sandwiches, and slide around on slip-n-slides. I believe the original plan was to see who could last the longest number of laps eating, drinking and sliding. But instead, it was complete carnage. The problem may have been that the final year students had been drinking one hour before the race, taping into the unlimited supply of alcohol. For me, it was a great way to see New Zealand's finest. Upon charging to the first station in the race, about 50 of these students toppled the table of food right over. A mad scrambled, some quickly moved on to the next station while the remaining were slowly getting back on their feet, but as usual wrestling started to occur. While all of his was happening, the nearby security guard grabbed a carton of eggs, and put them behind his back so i could have access to 12 gorgeous eggs for throwing at people. It was great, one of my friends clipped a final student in the ear causing him to fall over. The security guard pounded one kid in the chest with an egg. This kid thought it was from the crowd, ready to throw back food. He quickly realized that it was the security guard he was about to chuck a sloppy-Joe right at. Quite humorous to watch, but not the best part.
This may be the grossest thing Ive seen in my life, so pass if you do not like throw-up stories.

As one guy(guy 1) was scrambling to eat his food at the station in front of me, another guy (guy 2)charges right at him and throws him to the ground. The guy 1 retaliates and pushes the guy right over the table. Guy 2 decides to tip the rest of the food on the table on top of guy 1, lays on top of guy 1 and table, and guy 2 stuffs his mouth full of food. Guy 2 spits/vomits his inner contents into guy 1's open mouth, and runs to the next station. Guy 1 is too drunk to capture all of the situation. I on the other hand 10 feet away am gagging at the site of this once in a life-time experience I had witnessed. A final year student dressed as a baby is flailing his arms running past me. Only in New Zealand.