ohhhhh i love the gong

The past two nights I went to some formal halls: one at my friend’s college...which has become a second home to me and one at my college. A formal Hall is a fancy formal dinner with three/four long tables, with pre-drinks, after drinks, courses and a head-master-type-person saying things in Latin allowing us to sit down and start eating…..all to candlelight. Everyone wears black scholarly gowns (if you are like me and some other new arrivals and visitors you can just get deck-out and not have a gown..luckily my college is not very strict about these formalities). But I will be getting my harry-potter type gown in the next few weeks as I am going to other formal halls at older and more traditional colleges.

The one at my friend’s college was lovely, great food and when we were finished GONG! I got all excited and leaned over and said, “Oh you guys have a gong too?”
To which the reply was, “oh yes, all of the colleges have gongs…it is a very Cambridge thing to have.”

Really cause that seems like a very Asian thing to do…but what the hell I love it. I really really do! It just adds that extra special moment.

Good Stuff!