Foam Sword Friday

Last Friday was Foam Sword Friday, and it was awesome. Basically, on the Friday before final reviews begin, the School of Architecture places two bins full of foam swords on either side of the campus’s main crosswalk. Anybody is invited to grab a sword and wack a few people as they cross the street. The whole point is to release stress. And I have to say that it works really well.

My studio participated for an entire hour. We’d amp ourselves up by hitting our swords in unison on the sidewalk, taunting the other side. Sometimes we’d gang up on one of our classmates, but usually we’d just run into the crowd, swinging blindly. It was great!

The funniest thing was that Foam Sword Friday happened right at the start of the UIL One-Act Play competition. So all the parents at the crosswalk, holding their lunches and coffees, seem petrified. They’d run across the street in a second wave after most of the “fighting” had subsided. And the best part was when some of the adults would grab a sword and participate.

With this and Pie-A-Prof, I love the School of Architecture.