The societies awards are coming up, which means nominations need to be made.
Photos from our Go Global evening. We attempted to read Philosopher’s Stone in as many languages as we could, finishing off the evening with a rather raucous quiz.
This year, the society is embarking on yet more new territory and taking part in the Student Union’s annual Go Global festival at the end of February.
By involving thousands of students, GO GLOBAL seeks to present the identity and strength of culture of our student body to the University and the local, Cardiff community.
By putting on interesting and unique events, Societies and International Students in close partnership with the Students’ Union, aim to offer scope to students, staff and the local community.
We plan to spend an evening re-telling the story of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in as many languages as possible. And maybe with a few fun (and possible house point-generating) activities thrown in.
Our social on Tuesday 9th February will be in preparation for this. We’ll be discussing how we’re going to put this together, so come armed with ideas and, if you have them, foreign language versions of the books. Which parts of the text are essential to tell the story? Which bits are your favourites?
What else can we do to make the evening entertaining? Suggestions so far have included a Mastermind-style quiz or attempting some sort of indoor Quidditch (probably a bit of a stretch…). All ideas welcome!
Hey guys! In other news of ‘things I should have sent out earlier this week’, in a couple of weeks we’re going to have our second Triwizard task. Only for us, it’s going to be a night at an adult ball pool (adult in that it’s for grown-ups, not any other reason) in Swansea. The website is here.
Friday 19th February. Plan is to meet at the station at 5/5.30, and travel back on the 10.30pm train to Cardiff, so we’d get about three hours in the ball pit. Cost wise, it’s £8.50 (or £7.50 with student ID), plus travel expenses (which will be £6 train with a rail card and £10 without, and then a couple of quid for taxis to get to the Playzone in Swansea).
But we need to book the Playzone, so we’d like to have numbers ASAP. Please email us if you want to come!
After the quiz last week, we need to update the house points! Tim’s epic quiz was highly-contested with just one point between first place and joint second. Congratulations to Ravenclaw on what I believe is their first victory of the year!
The points before:
Slytherin: 516.5
Gryffindor: 502.5
Ravenclaw: 480.5
Hufflepuff: 432.5
And now the updated points:
Slytherin: 550.5
Gryffindor: 536.5
Ravenclaw: 515.5
Hufflepuff: 466.5
So no change to the overall positions. But how will that change this semester…?
We’re ordering hoodies via the SU this year, as well as any other HP Soc gear that people want. Order forms were handed out last semester, but we all know how easy it is to lose random piece of paper. So here’s a handy-dandy .pdf copy of the form for you to download and print out.
Return completed forms (with the money) to Tim.
Thank you to everyone who came to the quiz last night. And especially thanks to Tim for putting together such an entertaining quiz.
It was close, literally one point between first place and joint second. Congratulations to Ravenclaw on their very narrow victory!
Keep an eye on your email for information about next week’s social – the committee are currently working out the details.
26th January – Quiz
2nd February – Film Night
9th February – The Magical World of Harry Potter
16th February – PANCAKE DAY!
23rd February – Triwizard Tournament: The Second Task
2nd March – Fanfiction Night
9th March – Pub Crawl: Horcrux Hunt
16th March – Parody Night
Keep an eye on your email and Facebook for details about events and locations.
Okay, so I fail at remembering to upload photos. But look at some shinies!
Hey guys,
First off we have the last official meeting of this term tomorrow, the ever popular Secret Elf Exchange. As most of you know by now, the gist is that if you buy a gift (budget is £3), wrap it and bring it along, then you get one back in return.
For those of you staying over the Christmas holidays then you can pretty much guarantee that there will be someone in Central Bar on a Tuesday night stuffing themselves silly with chocolate fudge cake, or some other form of dessert.
On a different matter entirely, if I remember correctly, Sam’s sister is writing an essay on Wizard Rock for her degree and would like some information. If anyone has an interest in or knows anything about Wizard Rock it would be greatly appreciated if you could notify Sam (aka The Whomping Willow).
Lastly, I will not be attending the Secret Elf Exchange tomorrow unfortunately. You can blame the evil lectures who, so it seems, were put on this earth to make our lives a living hell. So I would just like to wish you all a fantabulous Christmas and magical New Year!
Hoping to see you in the New Year,
Danielle
Harry Potter Society President
