Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Ping Pong

So here in Denmark I have been playing a lot of table games(aka ping pong, foosball, pool etc). They are very popular and almost every collegium has at least one of them. Ours has two ping pong and foosball (called table football by many) Unfortunately our collegium charges 5 kr for one game of foosball(11 balls = first to 6 wins...) So it is played less often here. However we go to other collegiums to visit friends and play on their tables. And the Energy Engineering building on campus has a kitchen and a room with a foosball table in the building with all the project group rooms so that is pretty nice. However our collegium supplies paddles- although their condition is questionable... so recently there has been a lot of ping pong play happening. In fact I would estimate that since saturday night I have played between 15-20 hours of ping pong and probably 5 hours of foosball...So you could say I am hooked. But it is nice to have so many people to play with and many of them are quite skilled. For instance it is more or less assumed that if you are french you are good at ping pong... because this holds true in my collegium. My skills have vastly improved in the past few days and perhaps when I return I will challenge tiffy- even though I know she will destroy me... However if I keep up this amount of ping pong play I think when I return to the US I may make a table. I figure some ply wood and two saw horses with a net in the middle should do the trick. Or maybe Aaron will find something on Free Cycle...

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I could hear you all yelling and wondered what was going on, sounded like a fist fight or something. :P

Nice blog, will be sure to read it as it is quite interesting to see how internationals perceive the Danish culture.

Hope you are having lots of fun!

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