Week 33: O-Week!

The week kicked off with a bout of fancy dress volleyball down at the beach. Out came the sun, we filled a couple of buses and hit the beach. We filled some volleyball courts full with people dressed in wacky costumes and had a most enjoyable time. We also played some slips, frisbee, sea touch and obviously a splash around in the waves. The afternoon passed quickly and before I knew it I was down at the station picking up a friend. The rest of the evening we spent catching up with a few grogs.

Tuesday we kicked off with a trip to the grocery store before hitting the O-week stalls, we got some freebies and then made a scramble for the pool party. After a lengthy queue we got in and it was an experience to say the least, basically heaps of people squeezed into a pool. On the plus side there was a great 20m inflatable assault course which I only just completed. We scrambled to make a lovely lemon and thyme chicken dinner with sweet potato before dashing out to speed meeting. It was great to get talking to some new faces but my voice went croaky pretty quickly. We had some carry ons at a friends which rounded the night off nicely.

Pool Party (Photo Courtesy of Jamie Venables)

We had a lazy Wednesday, heading to uni, town and the beach. Some more free food was really good for dinner at what was going to be a bubble party but the rain descended and it was a bit of a damp squib. We headed out on the party to hostage and we were planning on going to the grand but the queues were massive so we came back a little early than usual.

A very wet bubble party!

Thursday was another fairly lazy day so we wacked on a few films, then had to go for a walk around uni just to get some fresh air. My friend cooked me an amazing sweet chilli beef stir fry, it was so tasty, I am definitely going to use that recipe. Once again we rounded off the evo with a few drinks around kb.

Amazing food! 

Friday I woke up feeling pretty rough, so we chilled out again before dropping off my friend back at the station. The afternoon passed pretty quickly, I had a little play in the ball pit before having a quieter night around kb.

Making friends in the ball pit!

The weekend started off with torrential rain and I woke feeling fairly ill (not from alcohol may I add), so I put on the Secret Life of Walter Mitty and finally woke at 11. I made a trip to town before heading down to the station to head up to a 21st in Sutherland. I arrived to the place all kitted out for a 21st, the caterers were in the kitchen, the floor was covered in vinyl and all the furniture covered in blankets. Fast forward a few hours and 70 people had rocked up in fancy dress and the music was going. Waiters and waitresses were walking around with food and a bar was even set up in their gym room.We had a sweet night chatting and dancing, the food definitely made the night amazing.

I woke feeling pretty fragile once again but the breakfast roll of bacon, egg and onion combined with a nap definitely helped. I made the journey back to the Gong and had a well deserved chilled night.  

Ill hopefully remember to upload pics from the 21st when they put on fb :)