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BIG BEACH CLEANUP: We cleaned all this up, this is around the halfway mark, in all fairness its not really a beach though, its more just like a gutter for trains and people who want to throw their stuff conveniently out of their cars, we found a couple of mattresses too which is pretty odd.



Woah!
I made it to my third blog post and I still have things to talk about/take pictures of.
Well played me! But lets be honest, its been about five weeks since my last blog
slack.
There is so much to talk about I'll keep uploading a blog every night until I've caught up with the latest Selwyn antics, this is one i wrote about five weeks ago but never published, so maybe you should read it as if it was that long ago

So the title of today's post is beach clean up, and cleaned up it got! (Doesn't make sense but roll with it). As much I'd like to say I did my bit, to be honest I just went to take photos of something interesting that happened this week, not too big on the whole 'helping out' thing, perhaps documenting it was my part though, some kind of recognition thing
But it was fun regardless! And speaking of recognition big ups to Vance who organized it all as well (That guy is a legend, check out his blog here: http://chaplain.selwyn.ac.nz/ )

On another great note just to prove to everyone up north (i.e all the concerned parents of Otago Uni students) that Dunedin weather is actually not as bad as it is depicted, we had some *Expletive* great weather in Dunedin last week, it was good enough to have all the ex-residents of Selwyn around for a BBQ so I put a few photos of sunny times in Selwyn up to prove it, once again, I have probably put too many photos up.

EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK: Kicking off the trials, Jimmy and Aidan fish out gummy bears from the perilous sea of orange jelly using only their mouths great and original effort.

SHOT OFF: Tiho, James, Letisha, Gracie and Brodie (all from the Richardson building) consume large and various quantities of citrus and orange themed liquids, carnage ensues.

Nicola and Emma each attempted to scull 3 litres of orange flavoured milk, hence the buckets...

EXCITEMENT OR DISGUST?: Aidan, Bunty, Jimmy, Nick and Matt survey the antics of citrus, with varying reactions.

AN ORANGE ODDITY: Though technically ginger haired people are automatically admitted into the citrus fold, Timbsy, Nick and Josh watch in amusement as Amy Clare cuts five locks out of her hair as gifts, freaky? perhaps shock value, maybe she just wanted a haircut.

THE SCULL: Jack downs 17 orange flavoured teabags drained into one concentrated death mix.

THE SCULL: The aftermath, a good effort.

THE ORANGE OFF: Jeremy, Bryn and Sam get involved in an eating race.

THE ROADCONE OF SILENCE: Bunty and Nick use the cones as funnels, a lot went in, and a lot came out

DANNY'S TURN: With similarly disastrous results

HYDRATION CREW: Member Dome provides refreshment to Danny, by spraying it in his eyes, nice one Dome.

A KNIGHT'S TALE - THE JOUST: This classic and aptly citrus themed remake features Bunty pushing Matt into Andy being pushed by Nick resulting in pain by roadcone, wait did that make sense?

THE FISH: Olly saves a fish from consumption, so as not to enrage the more humanitarian conservative people in the audience

THE FISH: Timbsy and Nick observe the fish, it now resides somewhere in a fishbowl, or perhaps was released to the Leith.

PUBLIC SPECTACLE: The crowd sits back and enjoys the days entertainment.

THE CITRUS SPIRIT: Classic quote from Bunty (Pictured); "Guys I think I might have swallowed heaps of orange paint".

THE CITRUS SPIRIT: Bunty, Laura and George pose in the wake of a great afternoon, until next year...

The Richardson Building (known, perhaps affectionately as 'The Dick') denizens pose in a photo in their finest attire before embarking upon Selwyn's annual Orientation Ball, the lesser formal ball Selwyn has during the year (The other being the 21sters Ball).

Selwynites come victorious off the field after a victorious match against rivals Knox College in the Unipol Sports Day, designed as an event to make the halls come together as friends and good sports for a day during O-Week.
The Dick poses for a photo before Selwyn's Annual Toga Hop, a party separate to the more popularly known one.
Dazed and Confused freshers wearing red socks and carrying their chosen piece of fruit await the horrors of the infamous Uni Tours, another crazy and off-beat Selwyn O-Week event. (I didn't take this one)
The great Gnome banner greets Selwynites as they arrive for the first time into a gnome obsessed hall. Chances are if your missing a gnome anywhere between Auckland and Dunedin... ahhhh, I won't go any further on this one.
The Returners of 2010 pose for a photo in the beautiful Marlborough Sounds, a welcoming reprieve from the gruelling BBQ tours that went from Auckland to Dunedin on Selwyn's annual pilgrimage.
A couple of returners overlook the Sounds at dusk, purely magical. (Photo courtesy of Nick Casey)
'The Fleet' The main group of cars travelling down the country, some old, some new and some that should have been scrap metal a long long time ago...



Well this is my very first blog post, and perhaps my most underdone. If you didn't know already I'm Jordan Watts, I'm the Photoblogger for Selwyn College this year, and I like to take photos sometimes.....yes....sometimes....

Forsooth! I have made a startling discovery!
Upon review of the week that was I realised I had so much fun I did not spend enough time behind the camera, instead I just partied hard for the whole of O-Week! However, I have found a few gems that I think on a personal level sum up what it's like to do a BBQ tour from Auckland to Dunedin with your best mates assorted into a fine collection of varying level quality cars and also a few goodies from O-Week, though as I've said I have probably captured less than 5 percent of the whole ordeal as it were, in fact some of these weren't even taken by me. To be honest though it would be impossible to do enough justice on a Selwyn O-Week, its just something you have to be there for.

In other news I took around 150 videos for O-Week which I'm currently sifting through now and I'll be sure to get them posted onto the brand new Selwyn College 2010 Youtube Channel, which has yet to recieve any views or videos for that matter. I'll post something when its ready, a taste of O-Week is like eating vegetables for the first time after 10 days doing BBQ tours where sausages is the only precarious option, and yes that is what happened, sizzlers overload.