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Monday Jan 25, 2010

More do-gooder activities...UK-stylee

Hello Hello!

Newcomer to the student blog, I'm Fiona, a friendly third year Cultural History and Sociology student from Fife, currently studying up North in Aberdeen.

For those of you who may have skimmed through the overseas blog, you may have come across my name before as I excitedly rambled on about my voluntary experience and travels in the beautiful country of Mexico. Well, as my travels came to an end, I vowed to myself that I would carry on and become more involved with voluntary work once I was back at Uni - and I did!

Unfortunately, due to money troubles, my first semester's efforts were not epic, as I struggled to get through coursework whilst holding down a heavy-going waitressing job. However, money troubles are now sorted (for the moment, fingers crossed and all that jazz!) so I can now shift my focus back on to spreading the love through voluntary work again. Awww.

So far, I have enrolled myself into the Aberdeen Charities Campaign, and have committed a few hours each week to our on-campus second-hand bookshop, Bookends. Run by around 20 enthusiastic student volunteers, the shop provides Aberdeen University with a great opportunity to raise money for the Charities Campaign through a simple process:

1. Students bring in old books (course-related especially, though we take all books), CDs and DVDs.

2. They then decide how much they are prepared to sell each item for.

3. Once sold, we inform the seller and they receive two thirds of the price, while we collect the other third as a donation to the Charities Campaign - simples!

Enough of my marketing, so far, I have maintained a loose contribution to the bookshop, which I hope to expand upon this semester, by working more hours, and working harder to improve publicity and the status of the bookshop, to maximise our charitable contribution. I also hope to get more involved in events organised in the name of charity in Aberdeen, which I hope you'll enjoy reading about as much as I'll enjoy doing them!

Anyway, I think that's enough of an introduction from me for now, I'll be back in touch once the actions on as for now, I have an exam to study for... Fi.

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