Everything you can imagine from football (soccer, because there definitely is not any football over here) to scuba-diving and the Christian Union society to the rock society. There seems to be a little something for everyone. I won't list every club and society, but a few honourable mentions deserve at least this:
Most popular (two-way tie): men's football and hockey.
The first one is a given.
As for the second one: in the United Kingdom, hockey does not refer to the greatest Canadian game ever to occupy endless hours among spectators and athletes alike. No, instead, if you refer to hockey in the UK you are refering to field hockey. You must precede any reference to hockey with the word ice, and even then you aren't guaranteed to have anyone properly following the conversation.
Best suited for adrenaline junkies: skydiving.
"Hiya, are you interested in skydiving? Once you try it, you'll never go back."
I think she needs to change her hook phrase, it might be a little too prophetic for me.
The club that will never get off the ground: snowsports... unless they are flying to the Alps on weekends.
The club/society I avoided like the black plague (three-way tie):
1. Circus and Juggling. (She was painted head to toe).
2. Women's Rugby (I recognized the team captain from the bar the other night when I commented that "I think she has more testosterone than she knows what to do with").
3. And the Almost Famous society. Acting, singing and performing. They were the ones breaking into coordinated dance patterns so inspired by the Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera jams playing overhead.
I vote for a name change: Definitely Dillusional About Being Almost Famous
And the club I have to mention: Roller Hockey.
The rep was a veritable Wayne's World surfer dude with an English accent on rollerblades.
He asked if I like hockey: "The real thing, absolutely."
And I asked him if there were even ice rinks in England. Unfortunately, I couldn't understand a word he answered me with; but I think a rink may have opened recently. I don't think anyone is using it. It's the thought that counts though.
I asked him his favourite team: "ohhhh (confidently tapping the jersey on the table with the blade of his stick)..San Jose, defffinitely."
I asked him why: "..Because, I got NHL 05 when I was eleven and when I turned it on that was the team the game assigned to me. I've loved them ever since."
Not quite the way loyalties are decided on back home, but I suppose that will work when the nearest NHL organization is based across the Atlantic ocean.
There were political societies, a paintball club, the Respect society, religious societies representing Christians, Jews, Buddhism, and Islam, and a club for the military tactics lover in you. Each club has a low induction rate (between 3 and 10 pounds) and a year's worth of fun, socialising and a few other promises, depending on the organization. For example, go to Ghana with the RAG (raising and giving) society at Salford. It is a group of people that dedicate their free time to organizing and hosting fundraisers for other organizations and causes in need throughout the city.
And every single club rep capped of their selling speech with: "Plus, our club has the best social in the entire university."
"Oh, you do? See, I've misunderstood because I was just informed that I would find the best parties with the High Rollers gaming society."
It really didn't take much deliberation on my part to know which clubs I was interested in. I really just took it all in for entertainment.
I returned home a new member of the Women's Football Club, as well as the Salford Rowing Club. I'll keep you posted.
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