weird weird morning!!!!
Monday, September 25th, 2006There’s this induction session for all new students to Newcastle this morning, so I went there as was told…. managed to find the place without too much problems (though I was tagging along with another bunch of friends from China… so… ) Found a seat and sat down… Then as usual, a guy went up to the stage and started introducing this professor who’s studies in Oxford and given lectures in the UK and US, so on and so forth…. Didn’t think much about it at the time, and listened politely…. and this very stereotipical professor with glasses in a suit came out and proceeded telling us about this research they’re doing and need more volunteers. That research apparently was about beer drinking and student learning…. says that from the statistics that they’ve gathered so far is that student who are actually drinking 2 pints of beer a day scores higher than any other students (not drinking, drinking half a pint, one pint or one and a half pints of beer daily) but any more than that you’re marks will drop again. He went on and on and on about this research and whathaveyous and told us to go to this building if we’re interested in helping out this research and get free beer basically…. Told us that this is called Beer Affecting Lateral Learning Syndrom or something like that and can be shortened into BALLS……
When his powerpoint dimmed to a close, this loud music suddenly went on and he stomped to the middle of the stage and proceeded to rip his clothes off!!! All of us were looking at each other and going.. “WTF??? What on earth is going on” amidst the blaring music and flashing lights (like in a disco). Then he stomped back the to side of the stage where the podium was and took his glasses and hair off which turned out to be a wig! He sort of bounced to the middle of the stage again and the lights went totaly off (with the music still blaring, I must add…) and started juggling these neon glow in the dark balls…! First 2, then 3, then 4 and ended with 5 of them….
We were all still pretty shell shocked at the time and I sort of gaped at him all the while… The lights went back up, the music down…. and he introduced himself again as John Davey from Christchurch NewZealand…. Told us all the previous stuff was a bogus and he’s there to tell us introduce us the the university…. then he began his “real” induction session which was very very very VERY interesting and entertaining…. It was just basic information of what support the uni offers and the usual do this don’t do that type of talk that do give everytime you start a new year in university but the way he presented it was absolutely fantastic! He gave all the examples and senarios with this 2 out of the world characters named Bruce and Pricilla which linked the entirety of his talk and had us all in stiches at the end…. He even pulled out this bogus whip that was neon and made this horrifyingly loud crack when he spun it around and cracked it when he was illustrating a point about how high school teachersand all that can be slave drivers~!! He was fantastic at miming and doing this one man gag for more than 2 hours which is really really hard given that there were thousands of students there in the morning….
Oh my god… I’ve never enjoyed a university given talk more than I have for that…. and I applaud him for it!!! Even until this evening when I went to a pub with some friends that we were still talking and giggling about it… *grins*
Actually, I’m giggling about it right now~!
*snort*
