HW Freshers 2010

Day Eight of Freshers Week and it’s almost all over! But we aren’t quite finished yet and today’s fun started with The International Food Fayre which took place on the Bridge Link. It cost £3 for a selection of foods from around the world, including lamb samosas, Mexican chicken wraps and lasagne, along with one of the nicest cakes ever! All proceeds went to a good cause, helping the victims of the Pakistan floods.  With all the food going, a decent amount must’ve been raised and hopefully there’s more to come in the coming weeks and months. 

We also had the return of Battle of The Halls, with all new ways of getting some much needed points! Points were awarded for making friends with someone in your halls you hadn’t met with and inventing hall Cocktails and Mottos. Robin Smith are still in the lead but a big “Well Done!” goes out to Ettrick who did extremely well today, even fashioning one halls member a kilt and sash made from newspaper and halls badges!  Why not enter your team into the quiz tomorrow night and win a few more points!

Tonight’s big event on campus is the ‘Highland Fling’ Scottish Ceilidh. For the uninitiated a ceilidh is a completely inclusive, (literally anyone and everyone can ceilidh, there’s a man in charge who guides you through each dance before the start, meaning that in no time at all you can be ceilidhing like a pro) fast paced and most of all sweaty Scottish tradition.  Like Irn-Bru and the much maligned battered Mars Bar, the ceilidh is a Scottish institution and no-one can truly say they’ve lived in Scotland until they’ve tried it.

The music for tonight’s festivities was provided by Rusty Nail, a ceilidh band with a reputation as one of the country’s premiere groups.  Also famous for their between song banter, they didn’t fail to deliver tonight keeping everyone inside Zero’s spinning and smiling all through the night.  The event wrapped up just after midnight with the classic ‘Auld Lang Syne’ and everyone headed back to their respective halls with sweaty backs and tired legs, many asking when they could expect the next union ceilidh!    

The last day of this year’s freshers week is all but upon us, ending in the traditional way with one of the stalwarts of the freshers week calendar, the Freshers Pub Quiz, hosted by Forth One’s Grant Stott.  Tomorrow we’ll be posting twice, the usual daily round up and an extra special blog featuring the funniest snippets of conversations overheard this week, don’t miss it!