Fresher faces in Cambridge

Posted by David Ralfe (Marketing & Admin. Assistant, Hoipolloi)

On my way home from the pub the other night, I popped into my local chip shop for some deep-fried carbohydrates, only to find this usually reputable establishment over-run with drunken school children. Upon closer inspection, said school children turned out to be rather larger than one would expect. They weren’t children at all, they were students dressed as children. Freshers’ week is upon us.

Now explain this one to me: you leave school, you leave home, you go to university in a hyperactive flurry of grown-upness... and the first thing you’re expected to do is put your school uniform back on for a Freshers’ Week “School Disco”.

There are rather a lot of students in Cambridge, making it completely normal to stumble across groups of people in silly costumes wandering the streets late at night. Pirate costumes are a popular choice in my experience, and I couldn’t approve more of such a wholesome and hearty theme. But school uniform in this post Hit Me Baby One More Time-era?

Perhaps I’m jealous. I’ve just graduated and I’m still getting to grips with being on the wrong side of the university/real-world barrier. But I’ll be returning to university spheres, for the Anglia Ruskin University Freshers’ Fayre tomorrow and the Cambridge University one in a couple of weeks.

Hoipolloi are looking forward to meeting lots of Cambridge’s newest residents. We hope that you’ll come to our stall and say hello, and that we’ll see lots of students at the Cambridge Arts Theatre for The Doubtful Guest between 15 to 18 October.

The company started re-rehearsals for The Doubtful Guest in Plymouth today and I’ll be blogging from the rehearsal room next week. In the meantime, don’t forget to book tickets for Plymouth, Southampton, Cambridge, Leeds or Cardiff! All the tour dates and box office details are here. Book soon!