Yesterday was the finale of the orientation week; Guild Day. Basically the campus was literally packed of all kinds of clubs promoting themselves and trying to get people to sign up. I must say that I love that about Australian universities… I feel like in my university in Finland there weren’t that many clubs (or maybe I just wasn’t aware of them!) and I absolutely love it that there are university clubs for e.g. social soccer, netball, swimming… you name it.
By the end of the day I had signed up to way too many clubs and had tons of freebies to carry home with me. My clubs included for example the Yoga Club, Aussie footy for beginners and Amnesty International and Save the Children. I am very excited – I bet soon my e-mail inbox will be very full (and I may not have time to go to lectures!)
So what all freebies did I manage to bring home? Well, a lot. It is a funny thing how every time when there are freebies available somewhere, we just have to take that stuff – even when we’re pretty sure that there won’t ever be any use for it. Well, after participating in competitions such as fishing and trying to catch (rubber) ducks, I ended up getting a water gun, noodles (whaaat?!) speakers with a paper case, a soccer club’s cap (I might have joined the club too – me, who knows absolutely nada about soccer!) and lots of pens.
All in all, the day was a massive success in my opinion – it was actually a lot of fun to walk around the campus with new friends and eat candy… and have your bags filled with free Chupa Chups. I have no idea how they put it all together and I am a little bummed I couldn’t stay longer to see some bands that were playing there as well but literally, thumbs up for the Guild – they did an amazing job.
Aren’t they cute?!
Now it’s time to start to get ready for tonight’s engagement party – not mine though! It’s the first engagement party I have ever been to so it shall be interesting!
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