Good luck to everyone during the exam period =)

The terms plan has been put up and includes some very exciting activities such as (2 week early) pancake day celebration, ready steady cake and a blindfolded trail through the woods…. and tonnes more! Visit the calender to see everything we have planned!!

Good luck again!
Remember, if in doubt the answer is always B or 42.

Lisa
Xoxo

That was the end of the official Scogui Autumn Term. Although you will be sure to see us gracing FND with our presence to wave good bye to the autumn term and the deadlines it brings…. only to welcome in the spring term, and its wonderful exams.

Merry Christmas Scogui Friends.
Have a good Christmas Break, revise hard and see you all next term for it all to start again!

XoXo
Lisa
Publicity Officer 09-10

Welcome back to all the returners, make sure you re-join your favourite society! And a massive welcome to all the future members that are browsing our website!! If you have any questions, or need more information feel free to email anyone from committee and we can hook you up!

The brand new Scogui term plan is up for your viewing pleasure! We definitely have a fun year ahead of us!

Xxx
Lisa
Scogui Publicity 2009-2010

Slight Disclaimer: While I’m sure committee will look at the results and most possibly likely follow them, in case everyone votes for like bright pink or something unfeasible, the majority of the poll may not be followed. This vote is just for fun more than anything.

On a cold, Friday evening in October, the SCOGUI boys and girls met outside the Union to go to camp.

We were soon to be transported by various cars to The Oaks campsite where we were to have a fantastic two nights (and days, sorry). On arrival, various members put up their tent and we began the weekend by chatting as a group in a rather cramped mess tent. Our only light source was from Brewers gigantic torch.

Saturday morning, everyone got up by 10 for their cooked breakfast which was expertly cooked by Wilsher and Chappers and soon the activities were to begin. There were lots of activities that were organised by Wilsher, which most members took part in. First of all, there was mountain boarding down the campsite, which was really really good fun apart from when you fall off when your heading towards Becky or some Brownies in their sleds!! After that, the adrenalin was kept pumping by the climbing wall, which at 20 foot high was scaled by the experienced SCOGUI in little time. There was another 20 foot on top but the weather prohibited use. The abseiling was particularly amusing as the ground was slippery so when you touch the floor you slipped across the floor into the tower (however, I did not go down fast enough to slip at the bottom!).

After that it was back for lunch, sandwiches and crisps, and then SCOGUI were let loose on the assault course and the archery! The assault course was wet and muddy which pleased some of the members (but not the others). Archery, run by Mike and Jen (SCOGUI members) was very good fun, with most members improving through experience (except myself who managed to miss the target and the netting behind it and leaving the arrow lying at the foot of the brick wall 10 metres on! We were then treated to the Black Hole, basically a man made cave within which various games were played.

For dinner on Saturday we had Wilsher’s and Rich’s spaghetti Bolognese which was another good meal before an evening of singing around the campfire.

On Sunday morning, we were treated to another fantastic cooked breakfast before the remote controlled car racing which saw SCOGUI let loose with cars that travelled at pace and 3 cars were broken within 20 minutes!! Our attention was lost when a sofa was burned causing a large amount of black smoke to decrease visibility on the track. At midday the tents were taken down and SCOGUI had their traditional photograph taken before everyone headed home to catch up on some sleep.

Thanks and congratulations must go to Wilsher for organising such a good event and all those people who helped with the running of activities.

Written by James Walter

By this point, Yvette le Riche (v. posh) and Barry (not so posh) and Charlie and Steve had joined us and we all left the field and went to find the campfire. That was lots of fun; I was introduced to lots of SSAGO who I had heard of but hadn’t met, like (let’s see if I can remember the names) uh… Helmet and his girlfriend, she was very nice. In fact all of SSAGO I met were very nice, if a bit weird. All quite bizarre, although I think that makes them more interesting, and they’re all really friendly.

Charlie was being very generous with the vodka she’d brought with her, and I have no idea how much she put in my coke, but I think it was quite a lot. It felt that way anyway as I became nicely warmed up and found I could sing and talk very LOUDLY. I think Jen experienced it too. And I’ve not much idea about anyone else; all I know is that we sang a lot. Oh, and there was a lovely person from St. Andrews who’d come on her own and had a bottle of Aftershock. The guy we were talking to managed to hold it in his mouth for a staggering six minutes, beating Edd’s mates’ record. As the night wore on Steve, Edd and another bloke entertained us with all the campfire songs they knew.

Saturday
After most of us waking up late and nearly missing breaky we split into teams (musical instruments, cunning eh), and then proceeded to do an incident hike (whilst poor old Edd and a few others went to a lovely meeting). This involved face-painting, croquet with a football and two big sticks tied together, the ‘polo on a matchstick game’ and the ‘eat a whole packet of crackers as fast as you can game’ (the incident hike that is).

After lunch, we went on different activities including a brewery trip, a pub crawl (of course), a cave trip and a waterfall walk. The waterfall walk was excellent, if a little icy. Kate and some of the others were understandably a little worried about slipping and falling over the edge down the bank and into the torrent of waters below, so we waited for them. Lots of photographs were taken at opportune moments, i.e. the waterfalls, and we were very well looked after by the people from Lancaster.

After falling asleep on the coach, we arrived at Lancaster University and were taken to a large room which was rather similar to a school hall, where we were told we couldn’t come in until we had taken our boots off! This was of course a good idea, but from the groans around me, I got the idea that all everyone else wanted to do was sit down. On anything.

We were well catered for in a place that I, Edd, Jen, Mike, Kate and Yvette agreed resembled a 1980′s style leisure complex entertainment room. We were however, quite put out that there was no pud.

Anyway, the barn dance thing was great, loads of fun, most people getting very confused as is the way, providing lots of laughing and joking. How merry! I think we were all amused by watching Mike counting religiously the steps during every dance, bless. I must’ve looked funny myself though as I kept getting caught up in my furniture wire (thank you Amy!), that is, my net skirt with a hoop in the bottom.

I have to say that everyone looked amazing in their outfits- special commendation must go to Kate who stuck all of the sequins on her Dorothy shoes and looked fantastic. Also, I think I should take some of the credit for finding Edd his tale from the market. The judges were, of course suitably impressed when we paraded past them showing off our gorgeous costumes, while singing ‘Follow the Yellow Brick Road’. We were dressed up as the Wizard of Oz in case you didn’t already know, which seemed quite a popular choice as there were other SSAGO groups with who we shared the theme!

Sunday
Every one slept in on Sunday morning, most had breakfast and then it was the AGM. Not a huge amount to say about the AGM I think you’ll be pleased to know, except that it was very interesting and informative and the new committee were elected with Helmet as Chair- well done. Then we all went back to Loughborough having had a very enjoyable weekend!

Written by Lucy Giles