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Having completely forgotten my camera last weekend, I'd like to share a few photos Other People took:
Women's Sabre B Team (2/3s of it anyway): resting from Saturday's fencing. Alecia is my best friend on the entire fencing team.
Kena's socks: she wore these with her whites. So amazing!
En Garde with a Darth Vader choke grip
Rob the Men's Epee A Team captain doing a fleiche for Men's Sabre B Team...he didn't get carded but the judge was like..."What?....was that?" Our sabre team is hurting so bad right now: they stuck epee-ists on the B team and they ended up fencing the Canadian Olympic Team and getting slaughtered. Rob made it "the rule" that if they made it to 10 points we would "win" (for Mac's own self-esteem purposes). So Rob didn't particularly care about losing points risking epee moves in sabre at this point. They ended up getting 22 points off the Canadian Olympic Team, so I think that is a good day's work for epee-turned-sabre-ists.
Actually, upon more careful examination, I realized the picture was not Rob. So you will just have to imagine this scenario I just described...
Fear the Sabre...
Women's Epee A Team: Blade the A
Ryan the Assistant Coach (foilist), looking Ryan-esque
Men's Foil B Team. The 3rd from the left makes an awesome Yuker partner.
Weighting the Epee (making sure the electronic box will go off if enough pressure is applied to the tip...all the points are calculated electronically in epee because everything is target and there is no priority).
Men's Foil A Team (Alecia's boyfriend)
And one funny story: I was eating dinner with Shandra (African-Canadian), Vivian (Chinese), Richard (Chinese, who learned English watching Walker, Texas Ranger and speaks perfectly), and Christina (Indian-Canadian...I think). Shandra was trying to describe a recent-ish film to Richard (who was in one of the pop music classes I TA-ed last year): "You know that film about the pimp who gets into hip-hop?"
And I piped up: "Oh, you mean Hustle and Flow?"
Everyone kind of stops and looks at me. "Well," exclaims Shandra, "Of all the people who would have remembered that, who'd have thought it'd have been Sarah Funke??!!"
Richard: "Never underestimate the power of the music major!!!"
And so I continue to surprise people. :)
PS Going to Brock (near Niagra) this weekend for another fencing tournament. Get to fence foil this time. Now I am actually nervous. When I fenced sabre I was one cool hep-cat because I had nothing to lose. Now that I will be fencing my weapon, the stakes are higher and the nerves come back.