Secret Athlete Dining Hall

the secret athlete dining hall,
tonight i went to the secret athlete dining hall in the john
paul jones arena (the big basketball stadium) misael and i got
in with some varsity wrestlign friends, this cafteteria is
stricly for varsity athletes, not even club athletes, -the three levels of sports are
-varsity : which is the university funded and supported teams, the ones they hand out scholorships and stuff too, and they have coaching staff and talent scouts - (we have the third ranked college soccer teamin the nation- i can hear that garry glitter song in out my window they must have just scored,)-
-club : which anyone can try out for, but it is still really
competitive and funded by the university
-intermuraul : which is like sports at australian universities , that anyone can roll up and play

-the athlete dining hall, has masive high definition projection
screens playing all sorts of cable sports and the quality of food is incredible and healthy! there isnt anything fried, it is in one of the lower levels of the arena, you have to ride a
secret elevator into the bowels of the arena.

monday night football
wow, i got my first taste of a live NFL game at a real sports in america the other night! nacho's and bourbon and friends who i can actually discuss the game and the players with! my NFL knowledge has been expanded ten fold.

the Washington resdskins are based in D.C which is only two hours away, so a lot of people here are fans, and it was the redskins vs the minesota vikings, it came down to the last minute and 'hall' for the redskins missed an easy field goal which would have forced it into overtime. so everyone was spewing, but i just wanted it to go into to overtime so i could stay and get another drink!

egyptian cigars-
the other night an egyptian girl showed some of us hokah or sheesh, which is what they smoke as an alternative to cigars in the middle east,she said that they smoke it to calm down
sometimes because they are high tempered people, well apparently not enough peple in the mid east are puffing away on this falvored tobacco!

it comes in a sorts of flavours, and is simply tobacco smoked through a big filter thing known as the hokah, - there are a couple of hokah bars in D.C.
we did strawberry.
- its a big thing for college kids to do in the US instead of
smoking cigarettes, and even though it might look like a giant
bong there is nothing illegal about it.-and dam this girl knew some smoking party tricks, she filled a plate with water and some detergent and got an empty toilet roll, so she would dip one end of the toilet roll into the plate and take a puff of smoke, then blow a big smoke bubble!!!
and you could burst it to release the smoke.


that is the top of the hokah on the left, i didnt get a good photo of the whole thing, there is basically a big glass bulb thing underneath that silver part. and that is the egyptian girl to the right of shot











this is at the ethiopian restaurant, as you can see there are no knives or folks, just the injera which you scoop the food with, for lunch you have your own seperate plate but at dinner they have the communal plate.













that is her blowing the smoke bubbles











Donkey of the week award goes to :
o'neils pub, it is on the corner (which is the strip that as all the cafes and bars for the college kids.) it is my favourite pub, but i'm not allowed to drink there anymore !! the police must have told them that they sent me to hospital that fatefull night. they did let me have a lemonade untill my friends finished their dinner.


















Quotes:
Homer: Cut it out boy.
Bart: Dad, what are you doing here?
Homer: Reading about this Edison character. They won't let me in the big people library downtown. There was some ... unpleasantness, I can never go back.
School Librarian: 'Scuse me! Are you a student at this school?
Homer: I think it's pretty obvious that I am... Go School!
( that quote is for o'neils pub)

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Homer: Do you know how many memories I have? Three! Standing in line for a movie, having a key made, and sitting here talking to you. 38 years and that's all I have to show for it.
Marge: You're 39!