After a long break, we’ve finally been let back into the labs! This time we were doing proper Chemistry! By that I mean mixing chemicals together and making things explode. There was definitely a lot of mixing but not much in the realms of explosions. It was still a lot of fun though, the practical aspect of the subject has always been something I had a keen interest in. 

The fact that we were under a time pressure added to the excitement of it all. As a group, we just about managed to finish three time-consuming reactions with all the preparation around them in four lab sessions. Although this was a stressful week, I enjoyed being able to learn by conducting experiments in the lab.

Curry Night!

Rememeber Mexican night with Manny? Well we went one better this month and managed to squeeze 16 people into the kitchen for naan bread, onion bhajis, poppadoms and three different types of curry!

Leadership Training w/ Citizen's UK

Shortly after the end of the first semester, I attended a two-day leadership training programme hosted by CitizensUK (an organisation that provides a platform for other campaigns to bring about positive change in their communities). Many members of the Let Us Learn campaign were present alongside many other young minds who were seeking change in their surroundings. We met up with other campaigners from Blood, Sweat and Tears whose main aims were to change the perceptions of migrants in everyday media.

Most of the training was based on improving our skills of storytelling, negotiation and ability to organise alongside others with a common cause. I took a lot from these two days and I look forward to possible collaboration between the two campaign groups.