Dorm Fun During Sadies Weekend

Sadies Dance makes the dorm gradually become empty, so a couple of international students from Vietnam decided to find some fun downtown while most of the dorm students went to the dance. It was a busy week for the North Cross basketball team, they played three games in four days and two of them were away games. Kevin Tran ‘26 (behind Alex on the left) is a member of the JV basketball team, who played two straight away games.  All those basketball games made Tran want to skip the dance. Alex Nguyen ‘27 (on the right) is a very close friend with Tran. He chose to stay at the dorm with Tran instead of going to Saidies. They went out to eat, and after they finished eating, the azure blue pool tables attracted their attention on the way back to the dorm and they decided to go in. Tran played pool a lot in Vietnam, but Nguyen never played pool before. Tran taught Nguyen step by step. Tran set everything up for Nguyen, he set all the balls up, and even fixed Nguyen’s hand position on the pool stick. Tran released his hand from the stick after everything was all set. Nguyen held his breath and hit the ball out, the orange ball drew a beautiful trajectory and went straight to the net. “Let’s go! ” Nguyen said, “playing pool is so fun.” Ngyuen’s expression could hardly conceal his inner excitement after he hit the first ball into the net. While they are all immersed in the joy of hitting the ball in, they might not notice, the real fun thing is not the pool itself, the real fun thing is their strong-bonded friendship.

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