I feel very guilty that it has taken me so long to get the second half of my freshers post up but as I hope you can all appreciate, it has been a pretty hectic time where I've had to cope with a lot of adjusting and new situations. It's now the last day of my first teaching week and so the end of all official freshers events (the last being on the Thursday just gone).
There were obviously various nights out during Freshers. The first 'proper' night out was a night called 'Fiesta' and a nightclub called Koko in Camden. The venue was pretty sweet as it was in a converted theatre and so had a really cool layout with the balcony and VIP boxes and the theatre still retained it's decor. However, it was so crowded on the dance floor that after a few hours of being pushed around and constantly separated from each other, my friends and I decided to go to the balcony where we could enjoy the music and also have room to breathe and dance properly. I'd made the schoolboy error of wearing heels (apparently wearing heels in London is pretty uncommon?) and we had walked all the way to Camden (about a half an hour walk from my accommodation) so my feet were feeling pretty fragile by the end of the night. Luckily though, there were some UCLU (our student union) staff outside the club offering slippers for heels-wearers to walk home in, which I thought was a brilliant idea!
The next day (I know I'm a party animal, right?) I went to a night called 'Chaos' which was held at the nightclub Fabric. Now do I have a Kira story for you... so we took the train to this club and there was a huge queue outside of people waiting to get in. I, unfortunately, needed the toilet very, very badly (spoiler alert: no I didn't wet myself). When we finally reached the front and the bouncer asked me for my ID I looked in my purse and it wasn't there! I had left it in my other purse! I had paid good money for that ticket so I decided that I was going to go back to my halls and get it since the train ride was only 3 stops. I ran back to the station (by the way I'm still desperate for the toilet, more desperate than I have ever been in my whole life, so that just made the whole experience particularly painful and uncomfortable) and I got the train home. Once I get my station I asked a member of staff on the platform when the next train is and he says in ten minutes. That's ten minutes to run back to my halls, go to the toilet, grab my ID and run back. It was such a narrow margin that I wasn't sure if I should even bother at all but I persevered and I (miraculously) made the train! My next obstacle was whether I'd be able to get in since my friend had my ticket on her phone and she had already gone in. Thankfully, it worked and I was allowed in but then I had another obstacle to face; I had to find a different group of friends from my halls who I was going home with! By sheer luck I bumped into one of them and one by one we rounded up the others. With all the chaos (geddit, because the event was called Chaos?), I did still end up having a great night. They had an RnB room which was playing some great old tunes which I just LOVED.
Unfortunately, I have no pictures to show you from the first two nights because I was an absolute idiot and didn't take any!
I went to a school themed night called 'Detention' at a club called Pacha which was pretty much a standard night out with a bit of dressing up involved. There was an incident however where I did the splits just to prove to some guy that I could because he didn't believe me, i regretted that the next morning (note to self: do not attempt splits unless suitably stretched)
Goofy picture from before Pacha! We were waiting for another friend to finish getting ready.
By far my favourite night was at a club called Rise for their 'Born in the 90s' night. Now I love 90s music and so the music they played this night was just amazing and so much fun! You'll come to realise that for me a great night out is determined by the music, the people I'm with and any funny antics that happen (in that order). I went with two of my floormates and we pre-drank together in our kitchen so it was nice to get closer to them and have a girly night out.
My two floormates (Alex and Charlotte) and I
This next night out doesn't really count as a Freshers' event but it still happened this week so I'll add it in anyway (plus there's another Kira story...). It was my friend Danielle's birthday and since she's at the same university as me but at different halls I could actually make it to her birthday celebration. We all met at her halls to pre-drink and to meet some of her friends and then we moved off to a nightclub called Tiger Tiger. I was having a great night but my bag kept dropping on the floor and opening everywhere and although I thought I'd managed to reclaim all my bag's content, I lost my keys to my halls and my lipstain. I only figured this out on the way home however and so had to crash for the night in Danielle's small single room with three other people. The next day we went back to the club and found my keys so I could finally go home. I had to do the walk of shame (kinda) because as I hadn't planned to stay at Danielle's, I had no other clothes to change into. It was all very awkward and annoying. Just as a sidenote, I never found that lipstain and I'm still mourning its loss- it was my favourite lipstain!
Old school friends! Will, Louis and birthday girl Danielle!
Have another pic: Me with the beauty that is my friend Courtenay
The final Freshers event was 'The Freshers Ball' at Ministry of Sound which I went to yesterday. We had a fairly long pre-drinking session in a nice big group of about 11 people and then we all headed out to the nightclub. It was a fun night and Gemma Cairney from Radio 1 was DJing in one of the rooms which was pretty cool. I left quite early with two other people though because one of our friends was feeling ill and we had made a pact to leave together since we're from the same halls and knew it'd be safer to go home together. I didn't mind leaving though.
You can tell this was after an few vodka and cokes (with the odd shot thrown in for good measure)
So those are all the nights out that I've had this past fortnight, I think it's fairly obvious that I had an eventful and interesting time. Even the moments which were not exactly pleasing at the time have since become fond memories and have developed into great drunken stories.
I do want to mention some of the other parts of Freshers week that didn't involve partying. There was, of course, induction meetings and talks during the day throughout Freshers week which helped to introduce you to the university and your department as well as provide guidance in what to do now you had arrived at UCL. By far the most interesting thing to me that week was the Freshers Fair, where a thousand or so ambassadors tried to sell their societies to you and boy were there some good/interesting/plain weird ones! We had: Harry Potter society, Surf society, RAG society, Dinosaur Appreciation society, Pole Fitness society, Chocolate society and so many more! I joined so many mailing lists for societies but I have decided to cut it down with Dance society, Salsa society, Make Up Artistry society (of course!) and Volsoc, which is the society for volunteering.
So that's all I have to say about my Freshers experience! I know that this is a hefty post and I thank anyone who has made the effort to read it all.
Lots of love, Kira x
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