Welcome Week

As you can all possibly guess, Welcome Week is probably the busiest week of the year at the Guild of Students and my favourite week of the year (other than Christmas Week- I like Christmas).

I just thought I would write a quick blog to fill you what I have been/will be up to this week....

-> I visited students in Mason, Tennis Courts and Elgar Court as they moved in and had their welcome talks
-> I enjoyed a wonderful interpretive dance from Timothy Stillwell, President of Tennis Courts (see picture 1)
-> I represented 2 students in University disciplinary hearings- yes, in Welcome Week!
-> I ran the Wellbeing Fair with Mark Smith, Vice President Sport- to follow in a later blog
-> I went to the Tennis Courts welcome BBQ
-> I collected 100s of questionnaires with Domeneque- Women's Officer on single sex gym sessions and active lifestyle classes- this data will be collated and hopefully used to lobby the Munrow for more female only sessions
-> I went to Gatecrasher as a "POSH VIP"
-> I got over 500 students to sign Oggy's petition stating that halls of residence prices at Birmingham are too high- it was great to see that so many students feel so strongly on this issue- home students to students on campus, first years to post grads everybody had an opinion... it's going to be a biggy!
-> I took LOADS of photos of people with the petition (see picture 2 on the right for a picture of me with it)
-> I got a goody bag full of amazing freebies
-> I gave away 3 wheelie bins full of condoms
-> I had a free massage
-> I made the Guild Officer Group travelling stall for the fairs (it looks AWESOME- see picture 3 below)
-> I started recruiting for the Multicultural Week steering group, with Rich Walker- VPSAD
-> I helped out Hannah at the Change Your World Fair on Tuesday the 23rd of September
-> I joined Birmingham Labour Students
-> I went to the International Student Welcome Ball, and watched cultural performances and a fashion show
-> I disco danced in the silent disco marquee at the Masquerade Ball =]
-> I watched Scott Mills from the balcony in the Deb Hall
-> I talked to students about Broke and Broken, the NUS Higher Education Funding Campaign
-> I joined Carnival
-> I gave presentations on the Guild to new students in Sociology, Accounting, Medicine, Maths and Computer Science