An action-packed day

It's Wednesday of Fresher's week now so everyone has arrived and is settling in. My role in organising freshers week has been to ensure that there are alternatives to clubbing available to freshers and making sure there is always at least one second year in the jcr to talk to any freshers there. As well as being on the Fresher's week committee, I am on the college welfare committee and yesterday I was involved in providing a welfare lunch of sandwiches etc. for the freshers. So on Tuesday I helped to pull a very full trolley back from Sainsbury's to college and then yesterday morning I brought back 18 baguettes before slicing numerous cucumbers and tomatoes. After the lunch, the second year medics took the fresher medics out for coffee and then showed them around the science parks so they can find their lectures and libraries. They were very keen and stocked up on recommended books while we were at the lending library. Later on they met our tutors for the first time and came back with enthusiastic reports.

I then poured out tea and coffee for an hour or so at the Chaplain's teas before rushing off to take a group of freshers ice skating. While I was there, my college husband and some other second year friends cooked a meal for my college family and a couple of other families. So we all got to know our children a bit better and I can confirm that mine are very nice! When we finished dinner there was a trip to The Bridge nightclub but I stayed with those who weren't up for clubbing and made smoothies in the jcr for a dvd-and-smoothies night.