Although most of these blog entries have been pretty heavy (understandably considering the harsh realities that we are all becoming aware of), but one of the highlights of the past few weeks was definitely the UConn men’s basketball team becoming national champions!! Yes, even half way around the world, huskies have pride! On last Monday night (in reality it was 3:30 a.m. here on Tuesday), 16 of us woke up groggily and bleary-eyed to watch the UConn men play Butler in the finals. Let me tell you, that was not an easy task!!
Some of us at Loch Rd. had tried to watch the previous tournament games a number of different ways. They tried streaming video online, but with the iffy and comparatively slower internet connection here, that wasn’t very successful. They tried video skyping with someone from home to watch the game. They even tried having Happy Landings, a sports bar, stay open extra late to watch a game on their tv. However, the only successful attempt was to listen to it over an online radio station. BUT, we weren’t convinced that we had tried everything come Monday when we made it to the final game!! So, we borrowed Marita’s 3g internet stick to hopefully stream it faster and more effectively.
At 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning as we shuffled into the common room, we came to find that the 3g stick was also mostly a fail. Although the video would work for spurts of time, it would freeze too often to get a good feel for what was going on in the game. We finally gave in to listening to the game over the radio and periodically checking the video.
At 5:46 a.m. with internships in only about two and a half hours, all 16 of us celebrated the win with a group picture doing the signature husky hand sign. I sent the picture into the Daily Campus, the UConn paper asking if they would post our picture and story to show students that huskies have pride no matter where they are in the world. Low and behold, the next day I received an email from the daily campus editor in chief with a link to the online PDF with our picture on it! Here is the link for those who are interested:
If that doesn’t work, go to HYPERLINK "http://dailycampus.com" \t "_blank" dailycampus.com and go to the PDFs section and load the paper from April 6th - page 12. However here is the picture we sent in. We were all really excited to finally make the daily campus without even being on campus!! And, as tired as we all were the next day, it was exciting to be able to be a part of UConn while still having the amazing experiences we are while here in South Africa. GO UCONN!!
Julian, Tom, Terri, Joe, Taylor, Susie, Meaghan, Sharielle, Kate, Lianna, Siobhan, Dana, Anna, Kayla, Logan, Emily
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