Today we had yet another fire alarm. Disturbed from my deep concentration whilst trying to complete a presentation which was due in a few hours (although I didn't actually end up doing it) I was forced up off my bed and out into the cold. Not cool. For my Warwick friends, I envy you. For you are now out of halls and in your own houses and so no longer have the annoyance of fire alarms going off at various times of the day and night. For all my other friends currently living in halls (yes that includes you Izzie, Lucy and Poppy*) I bet I can safely say that you all experienced at least one fire alarm during the hilarity that is Freshers** and if you didn't, then you obviously didn't do Freshers properly!
While fire alarms in Warwick were horrible, with people deliberately setting them off at 3am for a laugh (I still have failed to learn how dragging 300 people out of their beds into the freezing cold is funny but hey), here they are just a joke. The reason being that Emily and I are in what appears to be a disabled room. So, along with the piercing, screaming sirens and alarms accompanied by the annoying nasal voice repeating over and over again "May I have your attention***, a fire emergency has been activated please exit the building" we also have the joy of some form of strobe light which I swear to you has damaged my retinas for life! The first (and so far only - touch wood) time that the alarm went off in the middle of the night and I was awoken by this horrible, flashing abomination, I literally thought the world had come to an end. It was the apocalypse. I couldn't see, I couldn't hear. It was terrifying.
We never did learn what the fire alarm today was over but there was a very suspicious guy who came out of the building several minutes after everyone else wearing dark glasses and no shoes...
*And who said I never mentioned you?!
**Freshers week in England is the first 1/2 weeks of University which is just basically a massive party organised by the University and various clubs during which everyone gets drunk and acts stupid.
***Will the real Slim Shady please stand up... sorry, couldn't resist.
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