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by Chelsea Geach
What an experience! It began as a blog assignment: “something unfamiliar i.e. something you’ve never done before”, “as scary or as stupid as you like”…Which morphed into a three-fold dress-up operation, cultural statement and campus-wide escapade!
On Wednesday morning, the ‘Tannies in Towels’ (Nadia Moore, Kirsten Koma and I) shmaltzed into the second-period journ lecture wearing bathrobes, hair towels, rollers and slippers. Yes, the real coloured auntie stereotype. I was an honourary tannie, though sadly lacking in the hair-rollers and accent department.
Heads turned as we walked in and sat defiantly in the front section of lecture seats. During the lecture, we even became the centre of a debate on citizen journalism: what exactly is news-worthy? Where is the boundary between public and private? Would the public be interested in three tannies in towels at the journ lecture?
Probably not – but the rest of campus most certainly was! We sauntered over to the Kaif, through the English quad and down to Eden Grove. Commentators ranged from a pair of wide-eyed girls (“Is it Halloween??”) to a group of jocks (“F*** bra what’s happening over there?!”) to a startled member of the cleaning staff whose only words were, “My sweeties! Eh! Eh! Eh!”
After braving the in-between-lectures crowd, we decided to make an appearance at the Jac Labs. We Twittered about the experience from our conspicuous perches at computers right in the front of the lab, while a confused Rhodent behind us muttered, “Why’re they being so random like that?”
With our mission accomplished, it was time to toss the towels and conclude, in the words of a friend: “Only at Rhodes!”
On Wednesday morning, the ‘Tannies in Towels’ (Nadia Moore, Kirsten Koma and I) shmaltzed into the second-period journ lecture wearing bathrobes, hair towels, rollers and slippers. Yes, the real coloured auntie stereotype. I was an honourary tannie, though sadly lacking in the hair-rollers and accent department.
Heads turned as we walked in and sat defiantly in the front section of lecture seats. During the lecture, we even became the centre of a debate on citizen journalism: what exactly is news-worthy? Where is the boundary between public and private? Would the public be interested in three tannies in towels at the journ lecture?
Probably not – but the rest of campus most certainly was! We sauntered over to the Kaif, through the English quad and down to Eden Grove. Commentators ranged from a pair of wide-eyed girls (“Is it Halloween??”) to a group of jocks (“F*** bra what’s happening over there?!”) to a startled member of the cleaning staff whose only words were, “My sweeties! Eh! Eh! Eh!”
After braving the in-between-lectures crowd, we decided to make an appearance at the Jac Labs. We Twittered about the experience from our conspicuous perches at computers right in the front of the lab, while a confused Rhodent behind us muttered, “Why’re they being so random like that?”
With our mission accomplished, it was time to toss the towels and conclude, in the words of a friend: “Only at Rhodes!”
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