If you think students spend all their spare time avoiding studying, going out with their mates and having a good time then you'd be right. Well our student bloggers do anyway. While they assure us they don't slack on the study, they've got a lot to answer for when it comes to enjoying themselves while volunteering.

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Saturday Feb 20, 2010

Chugging along

So, we've been working away with the shop re-opened for a few weeks now and really things are going along as normal for the moment. Future plans are just beginning to take shape as we've been having more socials recently, and next year is beginning to loom over us.

Anyway, as I mentioned before, I'm currently working towards my MV awards for volunteering in the book shop. The part that surprised me is that I'm already well over half way to my 50 hour award! Most of the new volunteers in the shop are now signed up for the awards and I've found it really is encouraging lots of us to put in extra shifts at the book shop, which is itself has let us all work together more often, and to enjoy shifts more! I knew the scheme would help to encourage many people to work more hours when I first joined, but I had not even thought about the positive consequences it could also have on each of us as part of a team!

Also, I have not achieved much so far in organising our float for the upcoming Torcher's Parade on May 1st. On Thursday I put up a quickly sketched poster asking for help from my fellow volunteers, so hopefully by Monday I'll know of at least a couple of people who feel willing to help out with it all!

The Torcher's Float will require a lot of organisation, as we firstly need to decide on a theme, at which point we can choose what sort of float we want to go for (how big, covered or open air), before we get to work on the acual design, and put it all together! Of course, it may not exactly go to plan as we then have to put our designs into practice ourselves, with a combination of random bits of wood, cardboard, paint, glue and no doubt some glitter...it will be very much like a primary school end of year art project! I hope that plenty of people will offer to help, especially those who will be staying on in the book shop for next year, as it'll provide some brilliant team-bonding banter, and hopefully help us to raise a fair few pennies for charity!

Anyway, I don't have much to update on today, so I'll be quiet for now. Fi.

Posted by Fiona ( 12:00 PM )
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