While it may be coming to three years since i was there for just about four months, and goodness knows how long before i go back again for a visit, i'm no less thrilled for the Heels and their 5th (woo!) national championship. Rather than being on Franklin Street or anywhere near Chapel Hill though, i was instead doing some relief teaching duty and then sitting at my desk watching the live updates of the game score online. Well i'm no fan of both crowds and spontaneously-lit and clothing-fueled street bonfires, so maybe it's just as well that i wasn't on Franklin Street. From a strait-laced, S'porean perspective though it's kinda mind-blowing to think that something that potentially can be a huge threat to law and order is at the least tolerated to some extent, if not even welcomed with open arms. Try to pull a stunt like that here if we were to win anything of significance (and please, how often does that happen?) and it's police custody for you.
But i digress. I still do miss the Hill. Heaps. All the more so when i compare it to what the future has in store over here. No matter how good an experience the five-ish weeks at school thus far have been, nevertheless what a foretaste it has been of the many probable eyerolls and grumbles there will be in time to come. Maybe i should invest in a punching bag. Oh, to be a quitter...
Well, in the meantime, go heels!
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