However, this water gun fight was going to be the biggest, the baddest, the awesomest one we've had yet! We were going to have it at Houhai in the paddle-boats on the lake, like pirates! And then we had an even better idea: let's invite the teachers to participate in the water gun fight as well! I was surprised as to how many teachers actually came to our crazy event, 8 out of the 12 teachers decided to participate, and needless to say, I was really happy!
The only thing was, there were way more people than I originally planned, so we ran to the supermarket to buy more weapons, but their supply was too low, so two of my friends bravely volunteered to run to the Silk Street to purchase more water guns. It took a little longer than expected, but never fear, we had a "hacky sack" that looked sort of like a badminton birdie.
It's kind of small, but see if you can spot the hacky-sack birdie thing |
Once the arms shipment came in, we were all ready to go, except once everyone got their weapons loaded, everyone started opening fire (or water)! I was the one loading the guns since I brought the ammunition, but even so, I took a lot of fire even before the war officially began.
Looks like Linh took a few hits before the war began... |
Fortunately, we were able to hold a ceasefire long enough to take a picture commemorating the most commemorable experience in China.
Pictured below, from left to right:
胡老师, 刘老师, Matthew Johnson, Jon Gonzalez, 周老师, 闫老师, Linh Nguyen, 杨老师, Jessica Yap, 高老师, 李老师, Eric Pan (me), Noon Euchukanonchai, Jackie Lee, 张老师, Andy Liu
Words cannot describe the level of awesome we achieved that day =) |
And then we boarded our sea vessels (a.k.a. paddle-boats), and the war officially began. It was WAY more intense than I had originally imagined. To the best of my knowledge, everyone was super-into the battle. Everyone formed alliances, broke treaties, unloaded many rounds of ammo on the enemy ("spraying" the enemy), tossed countless grenades (large volumes of water from bottles). It wasn't long before everyone was thoroughly and completely soaked, especially once an engagement occurred, there was no way to escape without emptying all of your ammo and eating all off the enemy's attacks, thanks to the low mobility of our ships.
Fortunately, there were free reloads from the lake. Unfortunately, that meant that the amount of water that was exchanged that day prevented me from taking any pictures at all. Any electronics on board were at serious risk of never functioning again.
Once we disembarked, we could see the vast amounts of damage that everyone sustained. Not a single spot on a single person was dry. In hindsight, this would have been a good time to grab a few photos, but alas, I was a young foolish boy back then (a week ago) and forgot...
If anybody has any pictures or videos of our grand finale, please send them to me -- I'd love to see them and/or upload them to this blog!
Thanks to Jessica Yap, we have a few photos!!!
Linh during wartime! |
My archnemesis, Noon, looks harmless enough... |
... but she knows Muay Thai!!! |
Our sniper team, consisting of 张老师 as the spotter and Andy as the sniper! |
Thoroughly soaked, but still thoroughly smiling! |
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