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A 'Fresher Perspective' blog: big weekend in Nottingham
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Sophie will be posting her thoughts and experiences of uni every week during her first year to give a frank portrayal of university life and the role alcohol plays in it. This week she's back in Nottingham visiting her boyfriend and checking out the clubs.
It seems like at the moment I’m on a steady stroll uphill…not only am I feeling much happier about living in London, but I just came back from a fantastic weekend in Nottingham!
I think my fortnightly visit to the midlands will become my main socialising and alcohol consumption events. After the last Nottingham parking disaster, I travelled down on the train, which in comparison to driving, was sheer bliss.
I arrived Thursday night, 10 minutes before the countdown to my boyfriend’s birthday, and just in time to see someone throw up in the sink.
I then immediately whacked on some heels and walked down to Gatecrasher! It was a fantastic night despite only having two drinks. However, for some reason I was unable to finish my second one and had to give it away. I was really tired after the journey so we didn’t stay till the end but it was a brilliant start to the weekend.
Friday night was another big night out. I think I owe someone some cornflakes. The girls and I were eating them straight from the box in the flat next door to sober a little before heading to the club. Sorry to whoever woke up with no breakfast!
I couldn’t finish the 200ml bottle of vodka I’d bought, I felt like I’d drunk enough for the night and found no need to purchase any drinks in EQ.
Friday was definitely the highlight. It felt like it had been a while since I’d proper let myself go. However, due to my boyfriend’s overwhelming birthday unit intake, the night did end in an argument. I can laugh now, but it all seemed so serious at the time. All because I was wearing lipstick and didn’t want to kiss him and smudge it!
But it has a happy ending because everything was resolved once it was out of our system and we had a relaxing weekend after that.
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7 comment(s) on this article
Date: 17/11/09
Posted by: aimee
ugh
Date: 18/11/09
Posted by: Leah
Seems to be alot more to do with Sophie's trials and tribulations rather than her alcohol consumption; the parts to do with drinking are a minor aside to her life tales. Drinkaware not Lifeaware. A more vivid, lively and genuine blogger could have been picked.
Date: 04/12/09
Posted by: Ben
This is a totally unrealistic representation of university. I have not encountered anyone who drinks so little or who knows when to stop.
Date: 03/02/10
Posted by: Lauren
I think that's the point; she's showing that you can have a good time without alcohol, and suggesting other things that are just as much fun, along with going out on't tarn. They're not gonna have someone saying how good alcohol is and how they drink every night when it is "drinkAWARE", are they? I personally roll in phases; I have a week of getting bladdered, then a couple where I feel like shit and just have a couple of drinks on a night out. However, I am failing my course bad style haha. Enjoying reading this, Sophie :)
Date: 23/04/10
Posted by: anon
sophie is well fit!
Date: 26/04/10
Posted by: Jess
I think it's an interesting blog, alcohol affects so many areas of life as a student and that's really what Sophie portrays. The little side bits, about the train tickets and the mouse are what makes it an interesting read. None of you would read it if it was just "Opened a bottle of vodka, cant remember the rest of the night, hungover now." We all have those kinds of stories, it's just that Sophie's story doesn't focus on those kind of events.
Articles from the same month:
A 'Fresher Perspective' blog: how alcohol affects some people's livesA 'Fresher Perspective' blog: is the media right about students?
A 'Fresher Perspective' blog: birthday weekend
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Date: 16/11/09
Posted by: Tessa Gale
Hello, really enjoying your blog. Your relatively modest alcohol consumption makes me extremely alarmed about my own, and that of my contemporaries! I'm in my third year at Goldsmiths and during my time here nearly everyone I've encountered seems to have an immense fondness for "K Cider" (£1 a can and 8.4%, if you've never come across it!). I dread to think of the number of cans of this -or, for that matter, centiletres of Glen's Vodka, another good value but unpleasant favourite - that are consumed in the halls and student houses and warehouses of New Cross and the surrounding area over an average weekend. It's all very counter-productive and silly...