While it's great to be in a Big Ten school, it's not very fun to deal with all the game days and traffic. Ping loves cheering for our basketball team, ice-hockey team, watching the soccer games but when it comes to football...it's pretty frustrating. First of all, the football stadium is smack right in the middle of the campus. That means no matter where on campus you are, you have to deal with the traffic and tailgaters. The basketball court is at Breslin, which is on the East side of the campus so Ping never did realize when the basketball game is if Ping doesn't check the schedule because the West side of the campus is not affected.
Second, tailgating starts 5 hours before the game!! That one also tak cukup, parking lots are closed from 7am onwards!!! Last weekend, Spartan played against Notre Dame at 8pm. Ping thought that if she makes it to campus before 10am, she'll be fine with getting a parking spot. But guess what...they won't let Ping park!!! So Ping had to whine about having to work and need to get the experiment done that day and they let Ping in, promising them that Ping had to leave by 1pm, which is when the official tailgating time. Can you imagine just sitting out there lepaking for 10 hours???? In the end, Spartans lost to Notre Dame...there goes the entire day. Not that Ping don't want to support them but Ping just thought it's a little too much that the entire campus just freeze for the game. Even the buses don't run when the game ends!!!!
Ping was kinda pissed off after that whole drama at 8am in the morning, Ping went to Panera Bread to cheer herself up. Ping got their soup in sourdough bread bowl. They have quite a few choices of soup too - Ping got the Tuscan Vegetable and Ditalini soup. Love it although Ping never finishes the bread. The first time Ping tried soup in bread bowl was at a Delifrance in Beijing...hmm..talking about Delifrance, wonder if there's still Delifrance in Penang. There used to be one at One Stop, Pulau Tikus but can't remember seeing it the last time Ping was back. They have really got seafood sandwich! Ah Kong loves their pastries too..we would usually go there for afternoon break whenever dad is around to drive us.
Today we played against Illinois, which we lost!! Ping can't believe it!!! How could we have lost to Illinois which sucks big time???? Anyway, it was an afternoon game so Ping took the bus instead of driving there. Thankfully, when Ping got there at 8.30am, it was already packed with people who 'siow eng bo ming kia cho' want to stand out in the cold.
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