The Princeton Tigers

17th September, 2011

This morning, I woke up at 5am to watch Ireland play Australia in the Rugby World Cup. Ireland played very well and won. It was definitely worth getting up so early for.

Today, myself and Will went to the local park and had a walk around. Despite being the most densely populated state, there is still quite a lot of woodland and parks.

We then went to a fundraising event that Will and his friend, Mike, were singing at. They were asked by a couple from the church to sing at the fundraiser and they agreed without knowing what it was for. I was expecting a larger event but there were not too many people there. Will and Mike sang three songs very well. It really seemed like a political fundraiser so I was very curious as to who they were supporting. They had a sign outside the side but they were local candidates so I didn't know them. They also didn't have a party name. I just looked up the names and discovered that they were Democratic Party candidates for local senatorial and house seats. I would have actually guessed Republican, due to the number of old, white men there.

We visited Princeton town and university afterwards. Princeton is only about 10 minuted from Will's house. The university is very nice. They have a lot of old enough building and other building that are meant to look old. The campus looks like it was influenced by the architecture of Oxford and Cambridge. While we were on campus, the marching band were playing the Princeton song (as well as some others). I liked their outfits (see photo above). They are called the Tigers. They had a joke element to the band which was quite amusing as well.

We then went to dinner with Will's grandparents, who were celebrating their 61st wedding anniversary. I had actually met them before as they visited Ireland when Will was there. We had a very nice meal and I got to know Will's family a little better. Me and Will's two brothers (in case you don't know, Will and his brothers are triplets) went out with a few friends of their from college. We went to a nice enough bar with a good beer collection (though they didn't pour Guinness correctly). Everyone was extremely tired (and some of us had been up since 5am) so we went home relatively early (though New Brunswick is a little far away).