FYE 7

A huge event hosted by the Kappa Sigma Fraternity came up on November sixth, the Autumn Blaze. It was going to be held in Germantown, Maryland, which is about 30 minutes drive from Gallaudet. My good friend, who is a Kappa Sigma brother, begged me and Sandy to go. We were appealed by the idea of being in the middle of nowhere and breathing fresh air compared to the dirty city. After a while we caved in and went. It turned out to be the worst experience ever.
On the night of November 6th, I put on layers of clothes, hats, and gloves so we would be warm. Outside was really cold and I waited outside with friends. I promised my best friend that I would go completely sober and I did. Looking back, I wish I didn’t. Everyone else was drunk except for my friends and me. The two buses showed up and we all squeezed in, three or four people in each seat. I sat on top of my friends and was very uncomfortable. It took forever to finally leave and be on our way. By the time we left our butts were asleep. The supposed 30 minute trip turned into an hour and fifteen minutes.
With everyone drinking so much, their bladders became too full. Soon enough everyone was whining about having to pee badly. They were told to hold it in until we arrived. They became so impatient that they all crowded around the bus driver and demanded that he pull over. We were on the freeway, in the middle of traffic. I was so worried that the driver would wreck the bus because the drunk people were yelling at him. He finally had enough and pulled over very roughly into a ditch off the freeway. All the drunken guys jumped off the back and peed in the ditch. We all watched their butts and laughed at them.
The commotion didn’t stop there. The drunken girls refused to pee in front of everyone so the driver took us to a gas station. Everyone took so long to use the restroom, we were parked for a good twenty minutes. After that the driver got lost because he couldn’t find the freeway again. As he tried to find it, everyone was standing up, screaming, and being stupid. Ten minutes before we arrived, a girl at the seat across from me puked allover herself. She claimed she was suffering from motion sickness but it was so obvious she had been drinking heavily. Everyone was covering their noses because of the stench. Once we finally arrived, everyone ran off the bus because we were so crowded, uncomfortable, and queasy.
I arrived extremely grumpy and expected to have a good night. I tried to keep my mind off the cold so I went straight to the food table and ordered some food and hot chocolate. I found the food unsatisfactory and noticed that it was too dark. There weren’t enough lights so everyone had trouble seeing each other. My friends and I were miserable after thirty minutes. We went to see if there were any rides back but found out that the buses weren’t leaving until two in the morning. It was only ten thirty then. I was half in tears when I found out. My friend suggested that we do the hay ride to take our minds off everything. I decided against it because I was freezing so I stayed beside the campfire.
After fifteen minutes of torture, I asked a friend to call a cab company to pick us up. We struggled with finding a cab because we were in the middle of nowhere. After many attempts, we managed to find a willing driver. We waited for thirty minutes, watching drunken people running and falling everywhere. At this point I had to pee but there were no restrooms anywhere. My friend and I looked around and ran into the corn field and peed in the corn. So, don’t eat any corn that comes from Shepherd’s Orchid in Germantown, Maryland.
The cab finally arrived and there was only room for three people but me and my four friends piled ourselves into the car and told the driver to hit the gas. We paid him to take us to the nearest metro station then we took the metro back to Gallaudet. About 30 minutes after we arrived on campus, everyone else from the Blaze arrived. The drunken people claimed they had a blast, so I learned that you pretty much have to be drunk to enjoy an event at Gallaudet.