Freshers

Freshers is the welcome week for all the first year students... And for those students that are returning for year two or three, or are postgraduates it is unofficially called Refreshers.

Most of the events are geared towards the first year students. There are coordinated, themed events every day and night that are mostly arranged by their halls. When I say themed I mean like toga parties. Luckily for postgraduates Uni Nottingham has designed postgrad reps to plan events for us also. We had coordinated bar nights every day this week, and one night a student took it upon himself to coordinate a pub crawl ending at the official PG night. It's a good way to meet people, though if you know no one to start it does take some effort and extroversion.

This is the group of girls that did the pub crawl together

This is Brittney, from Missouri, we were so excited to find "rest rooms" instead of toilets!

Our last night we went to Ocean Night Club. We waited in the queue 2 hours to get in, but had a great time. This photo in particular is of the Baywatch song where all the guys (and some of the girls) take off their shirts and swing them in the air. A tradition totally lost on me, but amusing nonetheless.

During the days for postgradutes we had lectures/presentations on university services like IT and library, internships, part time work, etcetera. I did find the IT presentation helpful as I completely do not understand the Uni website! 

There was also the Freshers Fayre, which was mostly directed towards first year students to showcase the organizations and co-curriculars that are available, but we took a look around just to see. It was the largest student involvement fair I have ever seen! And they have the most random organizations... Like pole dancing and Mah Jong, to sports, debate teams, skiing, volunteers, a vegetarian club, and the list goes on. I didn't make any commitments but I did take some information just in case.

All in all Refreshers was fun! Not sure it was was refreshing, as most of us are taking a lazy weekend to recuperate before our programs start on Monday.