A time to make party!

After weeks and weeks and weeks of work, we finally held our World Cup International Student Party in our own little Selwerd 1 flatbar, which is located about 200 meters from my room. The organizing committee (we were 10, with 9 international plus Jorn) had worked our butts off pulling this party off. International parties in student housings had been banned a few months earlier but we could do it legally because we had a real bar. But we had to plan very carefully to make sure that it was safe and fun at the same time.

The whole day Friday, we worked and worked to do last minute stuff. My favourite part of organizing was making the decorations, which consisted mainly of circles made out of cardboard and painted like soccer balls. People even took them home as souvenirs. We had free Sangria, cheap beer, good music (thanks to our pro DJs Andi and Flo), awesome posters and tickets, fantastic decorations, and of course, costumes ("dress up like fan").

Though the party officially started at 10pm, there were less than 30 people until about 2:30 in the morning. Then things really started to kick off! We managed to draw in about 120 people, just enough to break even on the budget (the whole thing cost us about 350 Euros). The crowd was awesome and having a great time. There was limbo contests, dancing, and couples making out. Jan-Fré, the bar manager, even enjoyed himself so much that he dropped his beer glass on the floor at the end of the night. Our "graffiti wall", which consisted of a long roll of paper and big markers, was full of funny and mostly illegible comments towards the end of the celebrations.

At 6 am, we finally had to kick the last of the partier out and the committee sat on couches and ate leftover pizza before hitting the pillows.

The next day, satisfied with a job well done, we returned the music equipment, cleaned up the bar, and I sat in front of my computer and tallied up the numbers from the event. We made a slight profit and decided to spend it on a self-reward for the committee, which was a super nice dinner the next week.