Tim Tam Slam and the Swiss Chocolate Game

I forgot to mention one important rite of passage I accomplished last night in my quest to be an aussie.

A Tim Tam Slam.

Tim Tams are chocolate cookies that I bought a few days back. Tim Tam Slams...are even better. People do it with coffee normally, but hot chocolate works just the same for people that don't like coffee, like me. You bite opposite corners of the cookie off a little, so the milk chocolate covering is no longer there. You dip the cookie in the hot chocolate and suck up the drink through the cookie as fast as you can. When you start tasting the liquid, you have to quickly eat the cookie or something bad happens. It happened to me the first try. I sipped it all through and ate it too slowly, it became extremely soggy right away since it was soaked in hot cocoa, so it fell out of my fingers and plopped into my drink, and it splashed over my face and a little on my shirt. Everyone laughed at me and I was laughing at myself. It was great fun. The next time I did it right and ate it perfectly in two bites. It's amazing and I want my family to experience it too. I'll have to bring some of those home for sure.

The Swiss Chocolate game was introduced to me at Spiro and it was my favorite moment of the entire 2 day camp. I can't believe I forgot about it in my last blog post. How you play: There is a piece of Swiss chocolate in the wrapper and you wrap it up in newspaper (or another wrapper) and they tied that with a shoelace. Then they put another layer of newspaper with another shoelace, so it's pretty well-wrapped up. There is a scarf, two mittens, and a hat involved. There's a fork and a knife also. Normally you use dice but we didn't have any, so we used coins (which made it all the more crazier, I realized afterwords). Normally when you get a pair of 6's with dice, you have to unwrap and eat the chocolate with all those things on. With coins, we played by getting 3 of 4 heads instead of tails. So we all sat around in a circle at a table, passing around the package and throwing coins on the table. The second someone got 3 or more heads, everyone screamed so loud and threw the hat, scarf, and mittens at them. They passed the package and silverware too. The coins were passed along to the next person right away and the most of the people would watch the person struggle to unwrap the chocolate. Once it was finally unwrapped, people cheered. But the next goal was eating a piece, a whole new ballgame.

It was very hectic, fast-paced, and crazy. I ended up getting a few bites, and even the last piece! But it was a huge piece. I should've split it up more but I kinda wanted the game to end since it was going on a bit, so I ate it all in one go. There was a tiny piece of foil still on the chocolate but I had no time to remove it. Oh well, more iron in my blood maybe. Watching people struggle with a fork and knife and mittens on is hilarious.

But today I didn't do much. I slept in a ton, plotted out when my assignments are due (Sept 9th is the first), read a bit, ate a pizza slab, watched a bit of the Olympics (go USA! Australia! China!), and talked with people here. Tonight/tomorrow I will start planning the topics of my papers and soon I will start on the first.

Now we are watching the British Office and I don't think I'll do anything worth posting about before I go to bed, so here's an early post for once. Cheers, blokes and chicks!

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