#3 - Chocolate Festival

February 12th was Trinity's Annual Chocolate Festival. It is an event that is held every year in which different organizations participate in either an activity booth or bake-off booth. An activity booth is where an organization prepares an activity for students to participate in. It can either be a game or making/decorating your own chocolate (as can be seen in the third picture above). A bake-off booth is where an organization makes a type of chocolate cake or any form of chocolate and the designated judges pick the best made chocolate and the winning team gets a prize. There were about 25 organizations that participated in Chocolate Festival this year and it turned out really well. Our organization, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity participated as an activity booth and we had Flip-Cup (using Chocolate milk instead of alcoholic beverages) as our activity (as can be seen in the first picture above). For those of you who don't know how to play Flip-Cup, here are the rules: Two teams of an equal number of players stand on opposite sides of a table, facing one another. In front of each team member is a Solo cup filled with a set amount of Chocolate milk. At the start, the first member of each team drinks their Chocolate milk. When finished, the cup is placed face up at the edge of the table, and the player who drank it attemps to flip the cup by using just one hand, by flicking or lifting the bottom until it flips and lands face down on the table, sittin on its mouth. Only after the first teammate is done flipping successfully can the next person proceed. Whichever team finishes drinking and flipping all its cups first wins. It didn't turn out to be as successful since the chocolate milk was too dense and people have already had enough chocolate by the time they came to play flip-cup. Therefore, our booth turned out to serve free chocolate milk for those who were thirsty. Interestingly, all the chocolate milk was gone within 10 minutes since we started serving chocolate milk as a beverage. Other organizations had fun activities such as trying to eat a donut tied up in a string only using their mouth. The best part was that Aramark provided a CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN with strawberries and marshmallows on the side (as can be seen in the second picture above). They also provided a long chocolate buffet line which was filled with all different types of chocolate chips, cookies and deserts. It was just amazing. I think Chocolate Festival is one of the best events held at Trinity since anyone can eat as much chocolate as they want and for FREE!