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

Spacesitz with Quantum!

Hi guys!

Britannica is alive and kicking and in two weeks' time we've got a SITZ coming up! This time we're working with Quantum (the students of physics) and together we're offering you an awesome space-themed extravaganza down at F on Tuesday the 6th of May. The sign-up is already online, so make sure to reserve yourself a seat in our space ship - this will be a party out of this world!

Also, a friendly reminder that our pre-wappen get-together takes place on Monday in the students' lounge - we'll be sewing patches and playing board games for hours, so just pop in whenever you have time after 3pm and have a good time with your fellow students!

Happy weekend and see you Monday :)

Britannica x

Pre-wappen syjuntta/board game night/knytkalas

Britannica has still got a couple of events left before the summer holiday, and one of them is coming up in just a week! On Monday the 28th of April from 3pm onwards we will be hanging out in the students' lounge for a syjuntta/board game night/knytkalas, which basically means you have the opportunity to either sew the last patches on your overalls before Wappen, play some fun board games or simply chillax with your fellow Britannicans. You don't have to sign up for this event and it will cost you nothing (unless you want to buy something to drink or a Britannica patch or two; in that case, bring cash!). All you have to do is bring yourself and possibly your sewing equipment, your favourite board game and/or some snacks.

 

Pictures from our last syjuntta/board game night/knytkalas hangout

Oh, and if you're in need of some more patches for your overalls, or if you just want to get to know all the different student associations at ÅA, we recommend the "specialföreningsmässan" at Kåren tomorrow Tuesday, the 22nd of April at 5pm. Your dear board will of course be there to represent Britannica and sell overall patches and offer you some candy. See you there!

Britannica x

It was an awesome Monday!

A late thank you to everyone who came to our pub quiz! It was a success and despite the fair amount of tricky questions, all you participants did splendidly well. We hope to see you again at our next pub quiz sometime in the autumn!

As of Monday, Britannica is now represented on the wall down at F with this piece of art, put together by your dear board.

At this point, we also want to wish you a Happy Easter! Eat lots of chocolate!

Britannica x