Despite having been killed an estimated two billion times during laser tag, we are miraculously able to continue this blog. Mick didn't perform all that badly at his laser tag premiere, finishing 5th out of 9 on our team, which means he did hit quite a decent amount of the laser tag nerds running around the arena. The only thing Nick managed to hit was his shoulder - against a wall in the pitch-black arena...

Speaking of accidents, here's another one: the chair in Nick's room had been sort of wobbly from the beginning, awe-inspiringly leaning to either side. Nick's housemate Cat, however, wouldn't trust his assessment of the seat without having sat on it herself. Well...

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Football. Since England's World Cup qualifying match against Ukraine won't be on free tv here, Sheffield's pubs will end up showing the match of the day, which is [wait for it] Russia playing Germany! Meaning, we'll be watching Germany playing Russia in an English pub, probably in the midst of English hooligans-become-furious-supporters-of-Russia-simply-because-they-are-playing-Germany.

Shifting from the most popular ball game in the country to one of the less popular takes us to volleyball. As there is a society for virtually everything at Sheffield Uni - including Walking Society and, yes, Chocolate Society - there is also a Volleyball Society, of which Nick has become a member. The idea of sports societies in general seems to be to make sure the ambitioned athletes don't forget about what they think really matters in life, for which purpose they organise weekly socials in bars or clubs.

One such social took place last Wednesday, involving amongst many other hilarious things the beautification of faces by means of glow paint.

No, Nick didn't want to look like that.

Yes, we do know glow paint on guys' faces is nowhere close to cool.

No, Nick was not aware at the time of his teeth being blue as well.

Yes, the paint on Adam's forehead does say "TWAT".

No, he does not look this way when he is coaching us during team practice.

Yes, volleyball socials are fun.