Living La Vida Rhodent

Yesterday was the end of my first year English lectures and tutorials, they taught me all they could and for my sake i hope i still remember it or else i foresee a huge problem! This being Rhodes University [University with the most alcohol consumption in the Southern Hemisphere apparently] being notorious as the gathering place and birthplace of all alcoholics we were having our last tutorial at The Rat and Parrot [said to be the bar that sells the most alcohol again in the Southern Hemisphere,we don't do anything small it would seem].


Upon arrival at 'The Rat' as it is affectionately know to all Grahamstownians, it was packed full of economics, management, geography and even Chinese tutorial groups there to give one last toast to an awesome year of scholarly productivity [that is the ruse at least ,Rhodents will stop at nothing simply to drink]. So there i was discussing post modernism in literature, art and all facets of post modern life over a double vodka and coke in the beer garden, mellow and content with my life as it has turned out and i thought to myself, this has been the time of my life and i always knew it but it wasn't until that moment sitting in the breeze of fresh spring trees without a care in the world but to live out the day in sublime happiness that the penny dropped.
Most unfortunate was that i had a boring Journalism tutorial straight afterwards, up a steep hill on campus, i quickly understood why drinking during a hot day is inadvisable, i was huffing and puffing, squiggling and squaggling my way up that hill sweating like a Tijuana whore. On my music player blaring at full volume was Oasis' Champagne Supernova and of all the people i've known and people i will come to know i missed my best friend the most.


'How many special people change
How many lives are living strange
Where were you while we were getting high
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannon ball
Where were you while we were getting high

Some day you will find me caught beneath a landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Some day you will find me caught beneath a landslide
In a champagne supernova,
A champagne supernova in the sky

Wake up the dawn and ask her why
A dreamer dreams she never dies
Wipe that tear away now from your eye
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannon ball
Where were you while we were getting high?

Some day you will find me
Caught beneath a landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Some day you will find me
Caught beneath a landslide
In a champagne supernova
A champagne supernova

'cause people believe that they're
Gonna get away for the summer
'cause you and I, we'll never die
The world's still spinning round, we don't know why
Why, why, why, why

How many special people change
How many lives are living strange
Where were you while we were getting high
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannon ball
Where were you while we were getting high

Some day you will find me caught beneath a landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Some day you will find me caught beneath a landslide
In a champagne supernova,
A champagne supernova,

'cause people believe that they're
Gonna get away for the summer
But you and I, we'll never die
The world's still spinning round, we don't know why
Why, why, why, why

How many special people change
How many lives are living strange
Where were you while we were getting high

We were getting high'


[replace high with drunk,lol]
and just as i reached the building i get a call to come down to the pool to smoke hubbly and chill [which is also code for perve over the hot bods], i spent the rest of the day hanging out with friends, having spicy nachos for dinner and reveling like a pig in shit in my awesome life.
Of all the things this year has given me, it's given me a life unhindered, dreams uncomprehendable and growth immeasurable to who i am becoming. For the first time in my life i feel like i'm living and not just existing, i'm going places, i'm meeting new people, doing new things, feeling new things and knowing so much more than i did before.


While most focus on the partying, drinking and general debauchery which is synonymous with Rhodes University they fail to mention the family you find here, the friends who buy your food and electricity when you've spent all your money on lord knows what, the friends who carry your drunk and disorderly ass home and the friends who let you be who you are, whoever you decide that is. It seems la vida loca to most, it's la vida Rhodent to me.