Yes, that's right... Intervarsity was so awesome, it even forces me to break grammatical rules! :)
This year, the Ballroom Dancing Intervarsity competition was held in Stellenbosch. We all travelled through in a bus on Friday afternoon. I was sitting with Max, and we listened to and sang along with the Phantom of the Opera soundtrack the whole way there. That was immediately an awesome start!
When we arrived in Stellenbosch, we stopped at the Backpackers' Lodge and all went into our rooms, had supper and got dressed for the social. The social was with all of the universities that were participating in the competition the next day, viz. Tuks, Stellies, NMMU, Rhodes, Wits and UCT. We were by far the largest group there, almost outnumbering all of the other universities put together. After registering, we all went in and danced the night away. We were the last to leave, and while we were waiting for the bus to fetch us, Odi, Max and I were all singing songs from The Phantom of the Opera again. Once back at the backpackers, a group of us played cards, hung out and just had fun until about 2 in the morning.
6 o'clock the next morning, we got up and got ready for the competition. The competition itself lasted the whole day, and we had people from our team participating in almost every section. I started with the boogie, in which I didn't get past the first round. The next sections I competed in were beginners ballroom and beginners latin. I managed to get through to semi-finals in the ballroom section, and finals in latin. However, I didn't place in latin because my partner and I were accused of doing an intermediate step in the cha-cha, and without video evidence to prove otherwise, we were disqualified. I also did the reverse lead waltz and the paso doble, but didn't get far in either of them.
John and me doing the Jive.
Sean and me doing the Reverse Lead Waltz.
Paso Doble with Alan.
Rhythm Foxtrot with John.
Cha-Cha with John.
UCT on the whole did very well. We came back with 12 gold, 4 silver, and 9 bronze medals. We also had 5 fourth places, 7 fifth places and 6 sixth places. We won the Team dance, the formation, the Spirit trophy, and we won the overall competition. UCT won with 199 points, and Stellenbosch came second with 114.
The UCT Team
After the competition, we went to Dros for dinner and then went to a place called Catwalk for the night. Will and I left early and went back to the backpackers because we were both exhausted and didn't particularly like it there.
On Sunday morning, we all got packed and then had a picnic brunch at a farm. Then, we were on our way back to UCT, and Intervarsity was over, except for our awesome memories, pictures and hoodies.
Lizel, Will, me and Kathryn
Dane, Lizel, Will, me, Kathryn, and Arran's legs :P
