Save The Last Dance

This Saturday was the annual Varsity Match between Oxford and Cambridge, which was held in an obscure little hamlet near Cambridge. It represents probably the culmination of my ballroom dancing time in Oxford, as it is the final competition of the term, and from next year onwards I will no longer be eligible for the beginner's team, and besides the fact that it will be almost impossible to dance on the main team, there is the small matter of exams and finals. Personally, I didn't do particularly well, but then the level of competition in this tournament was really stupendous, so it is hardly surprising. Still, I must say that I have really enjoyed the experience tremendously, partly because of the way the team has bonded and the many friends that have been made.

For the competition, we all designed 'drinking' T-Shirts for wear at the after party, which invovled getting a white T-Shirt and using a marker pen to draw a design on it. I got all the beginner team members to sign the back of mine. Admittedly, quite a bit of the bonding took place during drinking games which we played at the after party and on the bus, but it was definitely great fun - it was amazing how ludicrously funny some of these drinking games are! I must say that I have really got to know some of the people on the Beginner's ballroom team very well and its a sad to see it ended.

Friday night before that was another guest night, and it was definitely wonderful, with goat's cheese followed by a very fine risotto with the whole dinner being topped off by a wonderful steak. Guest night food is definitely top class and I definitely greatly enjoyed the food. The dinner was definitely made even more interesting as Douglas' dad came down for the meal and spent the evening. We had a great time, and shared some very good wine over dinner, including an interesting French Bordeaux and of course, the classic Chianti Classico '97 Villa Caraffagio which must be my favourite bottle in the whole Trinity cellar. Trinity does have a wonderful range of wines, and I think I enjoy that far too much than is good for me! What makes it worse is the fact that you can just sign for the wine and have it charged to your college battels account, so you don't really feel the pinch till later - its definitely the same problem with credit cards. Still, I definitely think all this fine dining, and good wine is easily taken for granted, and that we are a very privileged few in Oxford who are lucky enough to benefit from it.