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Ah! Surprise! Welcome to this week’s NFKickassactivities with ‘the unexpected’ as a theme. I bet you didn’t see that one coming. As the regular reader might expect, I will start off with a short explanation for those who  do not know what “unexpected” means and therefore –I assume – probably lead a life that is easy although relatively boring: unexpected is that which is not foreseen. Some examples of things that are generally considered as unexpected are: Uggs, most season finales of Game of Thrones, a philosophy student finding a fulfilling job with a sustainable pay, 9/11, and a badly written NFKickassactivities.  Anyways, let us continue.

Monday there is fakbar. You probably didn’t expect that. That’s because it isn’t true. There are no activities planned on Monday.

Tuesday there is a fakbar. Just like every Tuesday you are welcome at the M-café from 9pm to order your favourite drinks from your favourite fakbar staff.

Wednesday from 6pm until 8pm there is the Education Bureau in the Council Room of the HIW (room 01.16). Feel free to come and give your opinions on education at the HIW and the results of the COBRA-questionnaire.  Or student representatives will gather your input and take it to the Permanent Education Committee. Furthermore Wednesday is the deadline for the payment of NFK’s culture trip. Are you registered but haven’t paid yet? Be quick, or our treasurer might do some unexpected things. Coincidentally, Wednesday is also the day the registration list for the culture trip will be open to people who are not a member of NFK. The chance that you will still be able to get a place as a non-member is small, but you can always count on the unexpected happening. (You can’t.)

On Thursday there are no activities.

For those who succeeded on their logic final against all expectations, I have a fun paradox concerning the unexpected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox.

Friday there is a breadmeal just like every week. If there will be a special theme for this week’s breadmeal, will stay a surprise for now.  The breadmeal price will be just as you expect it. But we do still expect you to pay.

Extra: Wednesday next week, on the 7^th of march, NFK and the HIW together organize the Saint-Thomas celebration.  All philosophy classes after 2pm will be suspended to give students the opportunity to  participate among others in a mass, a lecture by prof. Jean-Paul van Bendeghem and a cheese- and wine evening.  You can find more information on the facebookpage or on flyers distributed throughout the faculty.

So this was NFKickassactivities for this week, filled with unexpected activities as you can see. If there are no unexpected turns, you will be able to enjoy another piece of writing next week. Hopefully until then!

Hello dear readers, and welcome to the first NFKickass Activities of the second semester.  I hope you’re just as ready as me for another semester full of kick-ass words, sentences and paragraphs. By request, the theme for this week will  be “turtles”. Who doesn’t know what I’m talking about when reading the word “turtles”: imagine slow, large frogs with a big shield on their back. Also, try to pick up a book once in a while. You might learn something.  But anyways enough about the reptilian animals that look like the leather couch at your grandparents’ house that probably saw it best days back when they  bought in from a hobo in the 80’s. We still have an agenda.

Monday, there’s nothing to do. But, if you have a walking speed similar to that of a turtle, you might as well already leave for the fakbar on Tuesday in the M-café, starting at 9 pm.

On Wednesday you can come to the Cobra-café in the salons of the HIW from 6pm. That’s a free reception serving as a conclusion of a Cobra conversation day.  Such a conversation day serves a function of content reflection in a bigger plan of Cobra as a method of quality control for education of the KULeuven. For the enthousiasts, here are some more anatomical facts about turtles. Turtles are actually cold blooded animals, but their body temperature is usually a few degrees higher than the temperature of the environment due to the turtles’ high metabolism. Also, the space inside the shield of a turtle is very limited. So limited that when a turtle withdraws into the shield, he/she has to squeeze all the air out of his/her lungs in order to fit. So it’s probably not as comfortable as some of you might’ve imagined.

Thursday, there’s a lot to do again. For those of you who understand Dutch, NFK is participating in VRG’s Interfacultary Eloquence Tournament. From 8pm until 12am you can come if NFK’s title defender Hans De Mey, whose many similarities yours truly neither confirms nor denies, will be able to win a third trophy. If you find all that talking rather boring, you can come to fakbar Letteren (Blijde Inkomststraat 11, Leuven) where NFK organizes an IKEA TD together with Eoos, the faculty circle of the student who study languages and regional studies.  It promises to be a lot of fun!

Friday there will be breadmeal in the lounge to good practice. You can come eat as much bread and bread related products for the democratic price of 2 euros.  There are still constants in life, hurray!

So, that’s it for this week. Hopefully until next time, and for now try to remember that turtles can’t hear very well because their eardrums are covered with skin.  Goodbye!