楽しむために

It's February!!! So you know what that means to every true Yalie at heart, right? FEB CLUB!! That's right, the fun doesn't stop even after you graduate. Here in Japan, we celebrated International Feb Club on February 5th.

What's Feb Club you ask?? Only one of the greatest Elihu traditions ever~ 28 days of (un?)official Senior partying around campus. The practice has spread past New Haven to cities around the globe thanks to Feb Club Emeritus, aka Feb Club for Old People. It's basically just an excuse to get together with fellow Yalies and chillax, but oh~ it was so much more. For those of us who never got to patronize Mory's before it's untimely demise, it was a chance to finally learn the Mory's Cup Tradition. I'm still a little sketchy on the details, but essentially people pass around a cup with some mystery drink until the person who finishes the contents has the random task of drying off the cup with their head... which begs the question, what do you do if you're totally bald?... I digress. After that, the Cup is put on a paper towel to see if it's actually dry. If it is, you're awesome. If it's not... not so much I guess.

In case you want to practice this tradition on your very own, all you'll need is a big silver cup and these drink mixes:

• Red (Bottle of inexpensive champagne + glass of inexpensive rum + sour mix + grenadine for color + one cake of ice)
• Gold (bottle of inexpensive champagne + orange juice + a healthy pour of Cointreau + one cake of ice)
• Purple (bottle of inexpensive champagne + some purple stuff + one cake of ice)
• Blue (bottle of inexpensive champagne + glass of blue curacao + one cake of ice)
• Green (bottle of inexpensive champagne + some green stuff + one cake of ice)
• Velvet (bottle of inexpensive champagne + a pitcher of good draft ale combined + one cake of ice then a draft of Guinness poured slowly over the top.)

(The recipes and more details can be found on wiki.)

It was nice to see quite a few former Light Fellows living it up in Japan. It gives me hope that I won't always be a student and more importantly, might actually be able to support myself....someday... [anguished voice] someday.