UWE Pub Quiz

So, we finally made it to a UWE Frenchay Pub Quiz night, which coincided nicely with Super Bowl Sunday. Our team, consisting of four members, somehow managed to come joint-second from last which to be honest was quite an achievement considering this quiz was American themed in honour of the Super Bowl, which we knew nothing about.

Emma, being sober and knowing more about sports than the guys, led the team, Sarah on the other-hand was too busy drinking JD&Honey (a new favourite, of which she managed to spill an entire cups-worth on her lap).

We spent most of the night socialising, sharking uni talent, mocking the boys for getting their faces painted and complaining about the bitter cold.

After an eventful car-journey home which included one of the guys stalling Emma's car,  the other being rugby tackled by Emma to the ground and trying hard not to squash a birthday cake that we had made earlier that day...We ended the night safefully in Emma’s bed, eating a not so student like supper of cheese & hummus.

Shortly followed by a trip on the chunder train by the only sober participant of the evening, Emma...clearly the chicken nachos consumed earlier that night proved a poor decision.  

Crashing a Politics Lecture...

So this morning Sarah and I underwent the next mission on our Bucket List. To crash another courses lecture, and by crash we mean sneak in under the radar and sit there like a pair of geeks making more notes than the actual course students.  Our friends assured us that it was a big lecture and there was no chance of us possibly being spotted by the lecturer, by big class, they meant the top attendance of 10 students.

Being final year history  (and English) students, we wanted to attend a lecture that was different, something creative, but instead we opted for politics.

To be perfectly honest, I, myself, was not intending to find the lecture at all interesting. This is primarily because two days before the lecture I was talking to my friends who study politics and revealed that I wasn’t even entirely sure what government Britain was currently under. I know, shocking. Sarah on the other hand studied politics for A-level, so was somewhat more clued up to the political world.

Though Sarah and I went into the lecture and quite possibly enjoyed it far more than we intended and took around 4 pages of notes each, we did also ensure that we didn’t miss the opening sale of Arctic Monkeys tickets and made sure we purchased a pair whilst the lecturer was discussing the Economic Development of Latin America.

What did we learn? Erm… that politics is geography? International development, external economic market pressures, economic improvement, industrialisation, ISI’s and Neoliberalism are all terms that cross over what appears to be politics, geography and of course, history. The words conservative, election, franchise, revolution, were never uttered once. The lecture therefore, proved not only to be surprisingly interesting but also opened our eyes to the world of politics (marginally) and highlighted that there’s more to it than just sitting around in parliament shouting at one another about the best way to avoid paying taxes on their second homes.