Freshers Week

In Britain “freshmen� are called “freshers,� and instead of having orientation like they do in America, they have Freshers (Drinking) Week. Starting on Saturday, hordes of new freshman have shown up on campus and the landscape has suddenly come alive with people and events.

Practically every night there’s a pub crawl or student discount at a club. Last night I went on a crawl in downtown Brighton for international students, which was incredibly fun. After wandering through four different pubs, about five or six of us went on to the Honeyclub, which is one of the better beachfront clubs in town.

Living here with only my laptop to play me music, I’d forgotten how much I really really like loud music on good speakers. After hearing Aha, Bon Jovi, and Guns N’ Roses one after another, I just kind of zoned out and listened to the music instead of pretending to dance. I should find some concerts while I’m here.

I also managed to get extremely lucky with my camera—when we got into the club, I didn’t want to pay the 2 pounds to check my coat, but I also didn’t want to run around with my camera, phone, keys, wallet and change bulging out of my pockets. I decided (intelligently at the time, I’m sure) to hand my camera to someone to put into their purse.

Later that night I realized that not only could I not find her again, I didn’t know her name, or even if she’d come into the club with us.

Fortunately for me, she had in fact come to the club with us, did go to Sussex Uni, and was at the international students luncheon today. I got my camera back in time to take pictures of the weird and confused looking players in the square:

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