Tea & Paparazzi

For anyone who was not lucky enough to be at the afternoon tea today, I will describe to you the events that occurred. As we all sat down for our usual tea, coffee and cookies, we noticed a swarm of Asian tourists coming into the dining hall. Each person seemed to have a facial expression of pure delight. They were fully equipped with backpacks along with a large collection of cameras. We simply assumed that they just wanted to look around and take pictures of the amazing dining hall with the high ceilings and paintings because tourists seem to wander the campus at all times throughout the day.

However, we soon realized that this was in fact not the case. They were far more interested in taking pictures of us. Tourist after tourist sat down next to the lucky ones who were at the end of the table (Margaret and I) and began snapping pictures with sheer joy across their faces. I found it quite odd that they would be so excited to see regular students eating cookies and tea.

It was so strange because they did not even ask to take pictures with us. Rather, they plopped down in the empty seats next to us, put their arms around us, and smiled for the photographer (who proceeded to take about 10 consecutive pictures of each of us).

I found this whole experience to be so funny because I would never have imagined anyone to be so excited to take our pictures. They were literally acting as though they were taking a picture with a celebrity, rather than a regular college student.

Anyways, I just wanted to share this interesting experience with anyone who wasn't there to witness it because it was completely out of the ordinary!