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I should start out by saying that I’ve got nothing personal against Ian (whose blog entry I’m writing about), but his entry does pretty much sum up the way that people here tend to socialise.
I didn’t used to find it unusual that the way that people at universities in this country “socialise” is by drinking until they collapse, but over the last few years I’ve realised that it doesn’t have to be that way.
I got to know some international students. I spent some time abroad. I became a postgrad. I got more confident in myself, and realised that the fact that I didn’t want to go out to the union every night didn’t make me boring – it just meant that I enjoyed different things to what most of my mates were into, and certainly different to most of the things on in the union.
Sure, an occasional visit to one of the indifferent events is a good laugh, but I really wouldn’t call it socialising. Socialising means to me talking to people, in an environment where one can actually hear what they’re saying to you. So I like sitting in a pub, or in a café. Somewhere I can sit and chat over a cup of hot chocolate or a pint, rather than in a bad club like the union.
So I’ve joined the Café Society . We’ll have to see if the rather unnatural environment of a society social translates well to coffee culture.