Nightlife

I win a trophy with my team, welcome some more members to the team and make a costume.
This week I have had a lot of fun with my friends from Orionis. Monday we met up in a bar and got to know each other, while participating in a quiz-type game. Most of the time I could understand the questions (they were in dutch) around the time someone else had answered them. Anyway, I don't think it would have made much of a difference if I understood the questions, because they were all related to the history of Orionis or popular culture / common knowledge in the Netherlands. As it turned out, the rest of my team was about as bad as I was, and we scored a total of 10 points throughout the entire game (2 correct answers). At the end of the game we were awarded with a trophy that looked like a small dick. We happily celebrated our 'triumph', and after I while I figured out that 'the-little-dick-of-the-week trophy' is handed out to the losing team in events. Well, well, who's to say we can't celebrate that, so we had fun the rest of the evening and went home around half past eleven (it was Monday afterall).
Wednesday is the weekly 'open borrel' night, which is where new members sign up and meet the Orionis members. This Wednesday was the last opportunity to sign up and the place was packed. More than forty new members signed up that night! All teams 10 now consist of 12 members (I'm really impressed). Most of the team was there, so we could welcome the new members of our team as they joined and buy them some cheap beers.
Friday we met up again, this time in the apartment of our team's 'parents'. They live far to the south, so it was quite a long ride from my home. We had dinner there and practiced singing the Orionis song. We also discussed how to get additional points for our team. By closely examining the points-list, we decided to go for 'send a letter to the Orionis manager team by carrier pigeon'. But we don't have a carrier pigeon and we have no idea how to get one, so instead we are going to dress someone up (Thea and I managed to talk Lauritz into it) as a carrier pigeon and have him deliver the message. As you may remember I did some sewing last week and in the end I felt like I was getting the hang of it, so I proposed to make some wings for our pigeon. It was a lot more difficult than sewing patches onto a t-shirt, but now I have a full pigeon-dress in the closet (by the way I'm using a really nice sewing machine that I borrowed from my host). I hope it will fit Lauritz well. Others from the team have agreed to make a huge letter and a beak for the pigeon, so when we put it all together on Monday we will hopefully have our handsome carrier pigeon deliver a letter to the managers. I'm hoping they don't require some kind of flying of the pigeon, because then we will really have to get creative!