We're moving!

Dear Britannicans,

It probably hasn't escaped anyone's attention that things are happening at the English department at the moment. Substantial amounts of stuff are being moved from one room to another, people are running back and forth, and furniture is standing in the middle of the corridor. Basically, this is what's happening to the room arrangements:

Students' lounge -> Former department office
Department office -> One of the smaller researcher rooms
Researchers -> Former students' lounge

As this whole moving business means there is quite a lot of chaos in several rooms, and as there are still quite a few things to be done in the new students' lounge, we will keep the room closed for now. We hope that this short time of general disruption at the department won't bother you all too much, and we look forward to opening the brand new students' lounge to everyone later - hopefully at the beginning of week 8 :)

All the best,
The Board x

PS: Remember that our Anti-Valentine's sitz with Infå takes place at F on Wednesday 11.2! The ones of you who didn't manage to get a seat at the sitz are most welcome to attend the afterparty starting at midnight. See you there! :)

DONUTS!

If you ever want to hear a group of students in their 20s squeal like a bunch of excited children, give them a box of donuts. Needless to say, our first get-together-day of the year was a fun and cozy (albeit a bit competitive at times - ALIAS can be quite dangerous) success!

All the best,
Kathy 

Upcoming events

Greetings, Britannicans! As promised, your sparkling, brand new board is setting off the new year with a new lineup of events!

 First off, we're hosting a fun and relaxing evening in the Student's Lounge on Wednesday 28th at 3pm. Feel free to join us if you want to sew overall patches, play board games and socialize with other people from the English Department! Do bring along any of the following things if you feel like it: your overall and sewing equipment, board games, snacks, friends!  We will also be selling drinks and patches.

F*CK V-DAY SITZ
Roses? Romance? Happiness? Ugh. Britannica and Infå are once again collaborating to host a Valentine's Day sitz party together! However, this year we're straying from tradition (as you can see from the clever and tasteful title). More information can be found here! The spots are indeed already filled, but go ahead and sign up for the queue in case somebody on the main list doesn't make it to the sitz. There is going to be an afterparty starting at midnight, which is open for everybody, so come and party with us!



All the best,
Kathy

Britannica goes Paddington

Britannica's inofficial mascot Paddington has come to the cinemas and naturally we want to go and watch his adventures together! We have booked 15 tickets for the screening in Finnkino on Monday. You'll find all the information you need, and a sign-up sheet, right here!

The event in short:
WHAT? "Paddington" at the cinema
WHERE? Finnkino Åbo, Kauppiaskatu 11
WHEN? Monday 19th January, 17:15 (movie starts at 18:10)
HOW MUCH? ~9,30€ with student card (10,30€ without)

Also, note our little "special offer": if you haven't got Britannica's standard Paddington overall patch yet, this is your chance to buy it at a special price! It normally costs 3€, but during the cinema event you can buy one for 2€. If you want a patch, remember to indicate it on the sign-up sheet, and bring 2€ in cash to the movie. Please avoid the 20€ bills as we won't have large amounts of change with us!

Watch the trailer for the movie here to get in the mood:

See ya Monday!

The new board has taken over!

Dear Britannicans,

Your new board wishes you a happy new year and welcome back to Åbo and the English Department! We hope you've had a well-deserved, relaxing holiday with lots of food and other goodies, and that you have recharged your batteries with energy for the new term.

Today the new board for 2015 got together for its first meeting! The people who will organize your favourite events this year, serve you at countless sitzes and continue the fight for our students' lounge (among many other things) are:

While waiting for a picture of the board,
here's a picture of Paddington

Felicia Järnström, chairperson

Emil Gullblom, vice chairperson

Ellen Seppälä, treasurer

Jasmin Vallenius, secretary

Kathy Dang, info-secretary

Niklas Lipponen, host &

Maria Lammassaari, hostess

We can't wait to start planning this year's events, and we hope to see you all there! A few exciting things are already being planned, such as a sitz with Infå in February, a get-together in the students' lounge for sewing overall patches and playing board games, and possibly a visit to the cinema!

Stay tuned for more info!

All the best,
The Board x

Top movies 2014

I wanted to give one last salute here on the blog as well and what better way is there than to list some top films of the year? If you haven't seen these yet, do.

Frank by Lenny Abrahamson. Utterly brilliant and freakishly wonderful. Excellente.

La Grande Bellezza by Paolo Sorrentino. It's so beautiful I could cry. Stahp.

Her by Spike Jonze. Original, stylish, human.


OH the feels,
Matilda x

HARRY POTTER SITZ PHOTOS

Hiya everybody,

The paparazzi of the board, who owns the camera with most photos from our events, has been insanely busy lately, but now they are finally here – the pictures from the Harry Potter sitz! :D Our biggest thanks to everyone who turned up and made our evening in the Great Hall even more magical than we could ever have imagined – we had an amazing time, and we hope you did too!

We apologize for the slightly blurry quality of some of the pictures - we hope you enjoyed them nevertheless :) As usual, if you find a picture of yourself that you think should be taken down, leave a comment and we will take care of it instantly! Once again, THANKS for a fantastic night!

xo

The Board