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Quite a fun Open House today, even if it wasn't as crowded as last year, when they sent the entire RI sec 4 cohort down. I did a lot of stuff, from manning the History board(s) and even the guitar booth to playing Risk, slacking in SR 4 and simply sitting in the hall playing guitar and reliving old times. I even attended the Q and A session in LT1 and several times felt compelled to reveal the hypocrisy of Hodge's statements.

So it appears most of my juniors are coming or at least will be trying to come to RJ. Prelim results suck though, so I wonder...

Basically though, the work I did was all before Open House itself. Today was a relatively slack day. To elaborate on the first paragraph, morning consisted of sitting at the HISSOC booth eating sweets and entertaining the occasional visitor. After some time of this, I went up to the hall and found the guitar booth, where I sat down and played guitar for a while. Good old James even brought his RI guitar file, and the scores inside stirred quite some memories.

My time at the booth ended when Shuang Ning requested her guitar back, so I went downstairs again and got myself into an exciting game of Risk. Aaron and I, however, were no match for Tse Yang's power. I had to leave at 12.15 to man the History board at LT 2.5. I was there a lot of the day too, and even won a sweet from Mr Eric Lee when I correctly placed some rock samples into Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary at the neighbouring Geog board.

History board was nothing much, just entertaining the occasional visitor (and I really do mean occasional), be it student or parent. Most were very gracious, but I got the feeling not many really wanted to do the subject or their children to do the subject. Oh well, it isn't my concern.

In the afternoon I returned to playing Risk, to find Tse Yang holding most of the world and Aaron battling for survival in Greenland. He lost pretty quick, and I resumed my game from Hana, with my men all squeezed into just four territories in the centre of North America. Despite fierce resistance, tse Yang quickly took three of those and I retreated into Alberta to fight to the bitter end. He decided to end his turn and I simply flung what I had left at him, being wildly successful at first as he lost 10 armies to my 2. But it was simply trying to hold back a tidal wave with a broom; he had me roundly surrounded with over 100 armies in total bordering me. No escape. I attacked and attacked and eventually lost 15 armies to his 20+. The game ended with 79 of his men attacking one of mine. I rolled a one on the dice and he triumphantly sealed victory.

That done, I continued walking around looking at the various stalls and displays, stopping on the way to talk with a few juniors and to attend the Q and A, then doing one last shift at the History board. I finished the day for Open House with a brief stint manning the guitar booth, the purpose being that I would be able to attract RIGE sec 4s and persuade them to join guitar.

I then watched the finale and went to SR 4 to slack along with some of the HISSOC exco, which took about 45 minutes. Then I went home and did nothing much.

So that was it; the full circle's turned and gone.