School's out for summer!

Dear Britannicans,

The final deadlines of this academic year have passed (for some of us, anyway), the spring events are over (thanks everyone who came to Megazone with us, we had a blast!) and summer is just around the corner (or at least it seemed to be a couple of days ago). The board of Britannica has had its final meeting for this semester and the English Department is unusually empty, as everyone has gone their separate ways for the summer. In this final blog post for this part of the year, we'd like to thank you fellow Britannicans for the past five months - we've had lots of fun together with y'all!

Although there are still three months of freedom left, we also look forward to wishing you welcome back to studielivet in September - we've got an insane amount of programme planned for the autumn already! We hope to see you at movie nights, department-get-togethers, pub quizzes and sitzes - but until then, HAVE THE BEST SUMMER! :)

(Oh, and first-years - enjoy Edinburgh!!!)

Over and out x
Britannica

A party out of this world!

Britannica's last party of the year, the Space sitz with Quantum, was a success! The black hole of F was filled with aliens, Star Wars characters and unidentified flying objects, and together we had a fantastic interdisciplinary evening of eating, drinking, singing and just generally having a blast. It turns out that being the toastmaster and the photographer at the same time might not be the ideal combination if you want decent pictures, but at least we found some visual proof that this evening took place. :D

If you find yourself on any of the images and don't like what you see, please comment and we will, of course, remove them! Thanks to everyone who came, we hope to see you at our sitzes in the autumn too ;)

Britannica's April Adventures

In April, the board represented Britannica at two annual events: The student associations' fair (Specialföreningsmässan) at Kåren on the 22nd of April and the traditional festivities at Vårdberget on the 30th of April (Wappen).

At the associations' fair we handed out candy, sold overall patches and counted points as people tried to solve our movie game, which consisted of matching the right bad guy with the right movie. Lots of students knew their films well and we did run out of prizes after a couple of hours! Thanks everyone who came up to talk to us and buy some of our merch - we hope to see you again at the same place at Gulisakademin in September! :)

The board at Specialföreningsmässan

At Wappen, three of our first-year Britannicans made sure to wave our beautiful flag among all the other student associations at Vårdberget. It was grand, well done Matilda, Marc & Mikael! :)

 Britannica's flag on the left of Brahe Djäknar

Lazertag @ Megazone!

Dear Britannicans,

Our last event before the summer will be a round of lazertag at Megazone on Tuesday the 13th of May at 7pm. This is your chance to take a break from your essay writing, meet up with your fellow students one last time before the holidays and blow off some steam by shooting everyone in sight! You're also more than welcome to join us for a beer afterwards, if you feel like it. :)

A visit to Megazone normally costs 9€, but since the board is feeling generous, Britannica members only have to pay 7€ this time. Since our session starts at 19:00, we need to be at Megazone at 18:45 for preparations and stuff.

To let us know you're coming, please put "attending" on our Facebook event, so that we know how many people to expect and who to wait for before we go down for our session. If you're not on Facebook, sending an e-mail to britanni@abo.fi works just as well!

This will be loads of fun - hope to see you there! :D