Its Getting Hot In Here...
...Pitman Halls on Fire!
17.02.2007
-10 °C
Hey
I'm back into full swing now writing this more than just once a week! Anyway back to Toronto. I survived one of the biggest disasters at Ryerson University. We had a fire at Pitman Hall Student Residence on Friday night. It all started in Kat's room with Kat [obviously], Sian (friend who came to visit from the UK and arrived on Friday), Karen, Ian, John, Louie, Ivorie, Laura, Carolyn, Jess and I (big crowd I know) having a laugh and drinking before we all headed out to Guvernment for an all ages event. Then about 10 minutes after Louie, John and I showed up from the ILLC the fire alarm went off and we all thought it was just a drill because Pitman get drills all the time so we were debating on going or not. However the floor reps came and ordered us to evacuate the building. So being good little boys and girls we left down the fire exit and out into the blistering cold weather. After the fire servies showed up Louie and I had decided to go to Dominion where it was warmer and told the others to come and the chill in the ILLC where agains its warmer. Turns out when we got there they had sneaked back inside and carried on drinking in Kat's room. We showed up downstairs and were told to go the Canteen and wait for further instructions. Turns out there was an actual fire but rumours went round to where it was exactly. Some said the 6th floor, some said the 13th and 14th but no-one actually knew. So Louie and I spent half an hour in the Canteen with Holley playing around with my camera.
Finally we are allowed back up and we catch up with Kat and the gang drinking and mildly intoxicated. Finally after a few shots of this and chugs of that we set off for Guvernment. We ended up in a race between both cabs one with Kat, Sian, Karen and Carolyn Vs Louie, John, Ian and myself. We won but on the way we were exchanging sweet messages to each other and throwing things like gum at each other. When we got there we were boasting that we won but then the girls got us back thanks to Carolyn flirting with the cab driver and then he let them have a free ride.
We spent most of the night looking for Louie and John as when we went in we went straight to the bar and turned round realising that Louie and John weren't with us. They had gone back to Pitman because John forgot his ID.
Big Slice after the Guvs and a trip home downtown via a Hippy decorated school bus. The ride was a bit bumpy but we finally got to ride in one. Kat bless her, was given the mega phone to talk to us and when she is drunk she likes to talk louder! Well with a mega phone we became deaf. Good fun though I must admit. We all stole Sian's Big Slice virginity and she was gobsmacked when she saw the size of the slices here. We warned her about it being big but she didn't know we meant huge!
But the main focus of the story was that I survived the disaster of some small fire that no-one knew where it was in the res but atleast I can say I was there and then over exaggerate it to people here.
David
