40 Hour Famine, Open Day must-sees (Suzanne)

I am so, so, hungry right now, because I’m about 29 hours into the World Vision 40 Hour Famine, and I forgot to stuff myself during the meal immediately before my fast. Oh well. So far I’ve raised $62.60, and I’m aiming for about $120, which will feed eight kids in India and keep them in school and out of child labour and trafficking and all that for about three months (halfway there!) If you see me, please do donate – I’ll be collecting them until the 30th of September. EDIT 21 August: handed it in already because I don’t like asking for donations for something I’ve already done – asking before makes them feel like they have more of a choice. Final donations count comes to $80. It’s a little bit short of the goal, but still enough to help eight kids for two months.

In other news, Open Day is tomorrow today, due to my nocturnal habits. I’m tour-guiding for my college in the morning and the Faculty of Music in the afternoon. I recommend you stop by both, especially JCH because we usually have an afternoon tea demonstration which means a table full of scones and jam and cream, as well as coffee and tea service. I’m not sure if it’s still on this year because we have a new chef and he hasn’t made us scones yet (although he does a delightful scone-based cheese scroll), or whether it’s only in the afternoon, although I suspect if it is on it’ll be an all-day thing. It’s a little more plentiful than afternoon tea normally is, but I really recommend coming in for a bite because it’s one of the very few free foods at open days that is still there once you actually start uni 🙂

I also recommend any potential baby lawyers check out the Melbourne Journal of International Law table at the law school as well, particularly if you’re the type of lawyer wannabe that wants to save the world (or if you’re just a grammar freak), because we’re all too happy to talk to you even if you’re a prospective Arts student still three or four years away from starting your JD. I’m not staffing this table, but rumour has it that there may be free food there as well, and the people on the Journal are some of the nicest, most brilliant people I’ve met at uni. I’m pretty sure they’re giving out free copies of the Journal too, so you can take one home and read about all the latest scholarship in international law, including international humanitarian law, human rights, environmental, intellectual property, and refugee law.

Plus there’s the standard array of Faculty tours etc. and I’d love to meet some prospective musos! Especially if they’re going to donate to my 40-hour famine attempt…