20 July, 2010 in University by Aonghas

Farewell Chris

At noon today I caught the bus into Uni with Rose. She was pleasantly surprised to see me because she thought I started earlier today. We had a pretty nice catch up on the way into town, since I didn’t get a chance to meet up with her in the holidays. When we got to Uni, we also bumped into Rachel Chambers, another friend I hadn’t seen for way too long. It was good she still remembered me .

Chris was my action group leader at Student Life

After a couple of my lectures, I had a quick walk through the quad to check out some of the stalls that were set up for Orientation Week. A guy approached me and asked if I had time to fill in a questionnaire for Student Life, but I told him that I was already involved with Student Life and was in Chris’s action group. I was shocked to learn that it was Chris’s last day at Uni today because he is off to Canada for at least a couple of years! Luckily Chris was also at the stall so I managed to say goodbye and thanks before he left. I’ve only known Chris since the beginning of this year, but in that time I’ve gotten to know him quite well. I’m sure he’ll do well in the future and hopefully we’ll meet up one day too!

19 March, 2010 in University, Youth Group by Aonghas

Building with LEGO®

Our group's LEGO model

On the topic of churchy stuff, tonight at Youth Group we had activity night. Calum led worship while I played the piano (tried to!). We also brought Angie along with us to Youth Group tonight as well. Gabrielle led the programme and told us that we’d be building a model using Lego. There was a bit of a twist though. Each group had to nominate someone as the ‘President’ and someone as the ‘Vice President’. In another room, Gabrielle had constructed a model earlier using different Lego pieces and each group had to recreate it without looking at the original. Only the President in each group could see the original model and then report to the Vice President what it looked like. The Vice President then went back to the room where the rest of the team was and had to tell them how to create the model, but only being able to answer “yes” or “no”. In our group I was the Vice President while Rebecca was the President. It took our group a bit of an effort to get started, but once we had the base sorted, things started to take off quite quickly. Rebecca did a great job explaining how the different pieces were positioned, using her arms and hands to show me on the wall. In the end we managed to finish the whole model, and amazingly we were only one space off from being exactly perfect. Great team work guys!