Describing the events on Wednesday, 17 September
Half way through freshers week – for those of you who do not know what it is: it is the week where a lot of first year students get ‘‘introduced’’ to university, meaning they will drink rather large amounts of alcohol and will try to hook up – I got excited about what this coming year might have in store me.
The freshers fayre featured a great many resources to keep me from boredom during my stay here at Glasgow university. I've joined several clubs, of which I'm most excited about the literature club, which will actually start a creative writing part. Nonetheless, the philosophers club greatly excites me as well.
At night, there was this hypnotist, Alan Bates, the famous hypnotist, as he kept referring to himself. I have to say, I had never been to a hypnotist before, but it really worked for me. He started with a
warm-up hypnosis, an interactive part in which he ordered us to close our hands and would tells us they couldn't open any more. The ones susceptible for hypnosis apparently couldn't and were asked to the front of the stage. On me, it didn't work, unfortunately. The shows was great however, at one point I was literally crying because I was laughing so much. I shall not attempt to replicate any of the jokes or tricks he played on his willing volunteers as that will make as much sense trying to explain what it is that makes certain music so beautiful; you simply have to participate in the event to appreciate it.
When the hypnotist finished we were kicked out of the room, only to return an hour later, when there was a headphone disco. Now there's a good form of entertainment, which can be actually safe as well. For me it was heaven, not to have the music so loud as they normally put it in clubs. Maybe even better is the moment when you take off the headphone and listen to the people sing to the seemingly non existent song. As illiterate barbarians they cry out speech sounds which are vaguely similar to one another, the one singing the song even more unrecognisable then the other. Now that's what I call some old fashioned fun.....
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