Freshers Week!!! .... and Flu...

Hi !

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In Australia when we start university we go through something called Orientation Week. 

Essentially it is not really a week.

It's a day.

We attend a few welcome lectures go on a tour of campus and walk around a few stalls, advertising free food, societies and clubs and support at uni.

That's about it really. Very very very different to if you go to University in the UK.

They have something called 'Freshers Week'. Same idea but lost up amongst all the massive parties, socials and events they throw.

It's basically a week of clubbing and partying and you meet loads of people, see awesome events and shows and bands and generally, most people drink. A lot. Every single night. For me, it didn't really sound like my thing. But overcoming anxieties and trying new things and challenging myself is what this type of experience is for.

I had no clue what it was until the night it started. I didn't buy an entry band (sort of like the festival ones) or think that "Freshers Flu" was actually real.

 (Spoiler: it so is and its horrid...)

We had people like;

Chase and Status

Scouting for Girls

Kreptxkonan

S Club (4... not 7...)

Looking back on it; as at the time it seemed scary, overwhelming, challenging, exciting, new...

Freshers was truly one of the best weeks. I met so many people from all over the world at the international parties and so many amazing people from all over the UK.

The people I met in this week are now people I love and care about.

By far my favourite night (for so so many different reasons, I'm not even begin to list them, it was just amazing) was the Headphone Disco. I think the last night of the parties week. Basically a clubbing/disco event where everyone gets a set of headphones attached to a little radio thing and you swap back and froth from two channels controlled by two DJ's.

The room is silent.

But you can hear the DJ as though he's filling the room. It's amazing and just my kind of thing; everyone has the free will to sing and dance along and you can look around and see who's on the same channel, dance and sing with them and occasionally slip your headphones off and listen to half the room sing 'Wrecking Ball' or 'Let It Go' or 'Teenage Dirtbag' off key and intermingle in a horrible way!

The one downfall of course is, being in a small space with the same amount of hot, sweaty, drunkard, confused spluttering young adults seven nights in a row....you tend to breathe in some pretty rank air.

Freshers Flu is real.

You have been warned.

Thanks for reading, let me know what you think in comments :)

Ruby-Leigh xx