Give It A Go 08: Last Few Days

Hey everyone, sorry this is later than I’d intended.

Anyway, back to Give It A Go 08!

The last event that I went to was the Detox Night that was held in the Atrium on Friday night and after two weeks of covering the events, I was really looking forward to it!!!

The evening wasn’t set out in a rigid format like I’d expected and this helped with the relaxation. As I walked in I recieved my free smoothie, there was two on offer; strawberry and banana or mixed berry and then went quickly over to the chocolate fountain, which was pure temptation! There was bananas, doughnuts, marshmallows and strawberries, amongst other things, all waiting to be smothered in warm, runny chocolate!!!

Other things on offer included Eddie Burgess, who took the Indian Head Massage class on Wednesday offering a one to one treatment of either Indian Head Massage or Reflexology for £2 for a 15 minute session, which was great value and the Virgin Vie girls were there giving people the chance to try their products and take part in competitions to win products.

The atmosphere was really chilled and the way everyone was free to do what they wanted when they wanted was great, so if you missed it, you really missed out.

As for Saturday, well there was a Paintballing trip, which I’m sure turned out great (though was probably very painful) and there was also a White Water Rafting trip, which first year Journalism student, Chloe Duckett has written a review on.

After a three hour journey getting lost in the Valleys of Wales, we finally arrived at our destination; Canolfan Tryweryn, the National Whitewater Centre.

 
We were split into two groups and assigned to a raft and an instructor. Next we were fitted in some rather fetching wet suits, boots, jackets and helmets, however these were all freezing cold so putting them on was horrible!

Once fitted, we made our way outside in the pouring rain to have a quick safety talk and to be explained of the instructions and commands. Some of the commands involved ‘get down’ and ‘all forward’.

We then had to lift the very heavy raft onto the back of a trailer, get into a mini bus which then took us to the top of the river.

Our raft was thrown into the water and then the white water rafting experiencing began, we met our first rapid named the ‘Graveyard’. This rapid seemed passable when we first entered, however we soon began to realise why it was called the ‘Graveyard’. It was an exhilarating drop into a fast flowing mountain of water.

We next met the rapid known as ‘Ski-slope’ which I personally think was the best out of the three, it seemed to never end until you hit a drop and was given face full of river water.

The final rapid to end the course was ‘Miss Davies’ bridge’, this rapid was in full front view of the café and therefore many watched. It was extremely bumpy with the raft all over the place and ending up pushed to the side, however it was extremely fun!

We then had a second attempt down the course, but this time we swapped positions on the raft and even tried to tackle the rapids backwards and sideward.

It was an extremely good day and I think everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves, the only fault I had was the bus driver and his crazy driving!!!!

Thanks to Chloe for that, think I missed out on a great trip there.

The final event for this year’s Give It A Go was a trip to Blackpool Illuminations. Now I didn’t go this year, but I did go last year and it was fantastic!!! There is a reason why they call Blackpool the Las Vegas of Britain because it’s amazing, but the lights are the best part of it.

For more info go to: http://www.visitblackpool.com/blackpool-illuminations.

And that’s it. I’ve still got to pop up the pictures and interview, which I’ll work on tonight and hopefully have up by the end of tomorrow, but apart from that it’s goodbye from me.

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