Camping in style

May 11th, 2009 by Chris Posted in Personal Lives

I recently took a week off to do some volunteer work as part of Leeds Atheist Society’s Rationalist Week 2009. During the week the society erects a marquee opposite the student union and runs a series of talks, debates, socials and other events in order to raise awareness of the society and it’s beliefs.

This year the tent was open 24 hours a day and ended up with the most hardcore of us pretty much living in the tent for the week – despite it being April and us having a heater it was still freezing! Still we managed to survive and are no doubt stronger for it .

During the week I managed to get myself through six talks and speeches though the real stars of the show were our debates with the Christian Union and Islamic Society as well as the range of bands and entertainment we put on. Needless to say we were all shattered by the end of the week but definitely well worth it – roll on next year!