A slightly different Welcome Week

As the first weekend since starting our roles is coming to an end, I'd like to update you on what I've been up to over the past few days. Firstly, yes, I am doing Guild stuff on a Sunday. Sort of.

This week's highlights included moving into my office and figuring out how to answer emails from my blackberry. Fun and games aside it was enjoyable week and there is definitely something to be said for the summer months which see the Guild building close just after 5pm.

Over the last couple of days (amongst other things)...

• I spent a lot of time discussing the Guild's ideas for the Birmingham Town Takeover which will be taking place in early December. The Guild will be part of a large scale NUS campaign to raise awareness of the problems caused by the marketisation of higher education. I will blog in detail about this shortly.
• I represented students more directly by assisting with an appeal which included a lot of preparation and research.
  
• We welcomed some of Cardiff's new Sabbs with whom we discussed the building redevelopment, union democratic structures, housing agencies and much more.
• Got up to scratch with reports on feedback, quality assurance, trusteeship, governance, the National Student Survey, the Student Satisfaction Survey and our own market research.

This coming week I'll be off to Sheffield on Tuesday for four days of NUS Active Political Leadership training. I'll let you know how it goes and I'm sure that my blackberry will buzz every now and then with updates from the Guild.