COMING UP!

To the new students at the English Department: Welcome!
And to all our familiar fellow students: Welcome back!

With just a few days left until the beginning of gulisveckan ("fresher's week", i.e. the orientation week for the new students at ÅA), we thought we'd let you know that Britannica has a lot of programme planned for the coming autumn! The board is still scattered all over the country, which means we haven't decided on that many details yet, but we do know some things that we'd like to share with you. We especially want all the gulisar (first-year students) to take note of the following events, although we'd love to see lots of gamyler (older students) there too!

- GULISAKADEMIN @ Kåren 10.9.2014
The annual "student associations' fair" at Kåren is an event where the boards of all sorts of associations at ÅA come together, presenting their associations and their events to new and old students alike. This is your perfect chance to see what a huge variety of active associations there are at our university, chat to the board of Britannica, and just generally get a glimpse of what studielivet (the life as a student) in Turku has to offer. Also, there are lots of halarmärken (overall patches) to buy and free candy to be had!

The board at the student associations' fair in april 2014

- GULIS-GAMYL-KVÄLL
In order for the new students at the English department to get to know students from previous years, and vice versa, Britannica will organize a "gulis-gamyl-kväll". This evening typically takes place during the first weeks in September at some bar in the city centre, and is intended as a simple chill hangout in good company.

- HUMFEN'S GULISINTAGNING starting @ Arken 11.9.2014
Humanistiska föreningen (the association for all students at the Faculty of Arts) organizes the annual gulisintagning, which might be best explained in English as a very informal, slightly crazy, and hysterically fun initiation ceremony for the new students at the faculty. Britannica will appear among all the other subject associations with some fun task or other for the new students to perform. Older students are most welcome along to watch!

The board of 2013 at the gulisintagning in September 2013

- BRITANNICA'S GULISSITZ
Last but not least of all the "gulis" events: the first sitz (traditional student dinner party) of the academic year! This is the perfect chance for all the new students to experience this awesome form of partying that never gets old, and of course a chance for all us older students to party with the new ones (and, at some point during the evening, realize that we might be getting a bit old).

Britannica's gulissitz 2013

As soon as the board has had its first meeting for this academic year (which will be within two weeks' time, for sure) the dates for these events will be published, so STAY TUNED! In order to keep yourselves updated, you can:

- Keep an eye on this blog, where we will make posts about all upcoming events
- Join Britannica's Facebook group, where events will be shared as soon as they're created
- When you're at the department, check Britannica's notice board
- If you're already a Britannica member, check your e-mail

SEE YOU SOON!

xoxo
Board of Britannica

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