Exchange student 1: “What happens now, why is everyone leaving?”
Exchange student 2: “I think it might be finished.”Exchange student 1: “Finished?! But we have only played two rounds, isn’t there normally four?”
Exchange student 2: “I don’t know, but even the brass band is packing up their notes, I am pretty sure it’s finished”.
Exchange student 1: “But wait a minute… Does that mean we lost?"
With only a wage idea about the rules of basketball, and more drawn towards the promise of a free t-shirt, Mimi, Andrei and I made it through an entire basketball game on Saturday. Our university team - the Northern Kentucky Norse - took on the Bellarmine Knights, in a national televised game.
Personally, I was most of the time too distracted by the mascots, brass bands, dance teams, cheerleaders and jumping castles to pay any attention to the actual game. The halftime break with mascot basketball was also a personal favourite.
And as for the confusion around the playing time, professional NBA-style basketball has four quarters, while college basketball has two halves. And our team did unfortunately lose 69-74.
Mimi and Andrei from Romania, posing during the mascot basketball game.
The curse of the yellow - why is my school colour always yellow? Mimi and Hege - commonly, but incorrectly, referred to as "the Danes". I guess that is what we get for exchanging from Aarhus School of Business.