Newsletter October

Climbing trip Glees
The second UBoulder climbing trip will take place in the coming weekend of 12 to 13 October. An (elongated) van full of enthusiastic climbers will travel to Glees, located in the German Eiffel. This will be our last pre-winter outdoor climbing trip. If you have missed the registration period but would like to climb outside with us: there are plenty of trips planned for the coming year. Every long weekend (Easter, Pentecost, etc.) a trip will be organized!

This however means that there will be no training on Sunday 13 October. The week after (October 20^th and onwards) the training will continue as usual.

- This is the determination we have on climbing trips - 

Training
Last month we started giving bouldering trainings! You obviously heard it over 100 times, but these trainings take place every Sunday from 19:00 to 21:00 in Sterk. This is of course the time to get to know your fellow UBoulder members. Or just to get better at bouldering. We are also open to trail members! This means that your friends can participate without getting a membership immediately (they will do so afterwards). You can register for the trial training here.



Do you have any tips or would you like to learn something specific in a training? Send an email to secretaris@uboulder.nl and I’ll make sure that it reaches the right person.

Activity Committee
We recently have started an activity committee within UBoulder! These enthusiastic volunteers will organize various activities throughout the year, both boulder and non-boulder related activities. The first event has already been held, on Friday the 27^th of September we went slack lining.

The committee will introduce themselves below:

The time has come, Uboulder is growing and with that the activity committee is a fact! After a spontaneously organized slackline event, we held a first unofficial meeting and decided to form an activity committee. Our goal is to organize ROCK hard activities! I know shocking. We are going to organize multiple events to end this year well. The Halloween themed cocktail course is already on our calendar. Awesome parties, gala’s and trips are going to be added soon. Think about a New Year’s gala, Christmas dinner or bouldering tour. Yeah it’s being as crazy as you think. We are going to climb to great heights to make Uboulder much more than a sports club. If you would like to help, mail to Activiteiten@Uboulder.nl

If you have any good ideas but unfortunately no time to help, then place your crazy ideas in the idea box. 



Halloween
On Thursday the 31^st of October UBoulder will organize its first Halloween party:

Mountain Monsters & Margaritas

Uboulder organizes its first Halloween party, Mountain Monsters & Margaritas, on Thursday 31 October.

The University of Magic Potions and Boulder Brews welcomes you for a speed course magic potions. Together you will follow a course on this spooky evening in making potions and breweries with and without poison. After the course it is time to see which effect the poison has. In advance there is the possibility to sip along with a home-made pumpkin soup. The pumpkin soup is served from 17:30 and the cocktail course starts at 18:30. We expect that the effects of the poison will reach its peak around 21 and then the traditional Mountain dance will start. With the survivors, we may go deeper into the mountains around 23 to fight and ride other creeps and monsters, depending on the amount of survivors and how noisy our dances will be. 

To participate in this creepy night, we charge € 10.50 for making potions with alcohol and € 8.50 without alcohol. We also charge a small contribution of € 2.00 for the pumpkin soup. If you only want to dance from 21:00, we ask to contribute € 5.00 for the decoration, mixed drinks and snacks. Introducers are welcome with a maximum of 2 persons per Uboulder member for the same rates. 

We are looking forward to see you dressed-up in your scariest outfit on Thursday the 31st of October at the University of Magic Potions and Boulder Brews at Cambridgelaan 815 Utrecht. The secret portal can be found on the 8th floor of the left elevator in the left flat. 

Because ingredients must be brewed, we ask you to register via this link. You can register till the end of October 27th.

Until Halloween!
 
Refugee Clinics
In January 2020, UBoulder will organize sports clinics for status holders (= refugees with a residence permit). This will be arranged in collaboration with JongGras Sportbuddies, a project where students coach status holders concerning various sports in Utrecht. This will improve the Dutch language of status holders while they build a network in our country. The precise dates for this will follow in an upcoming newsletter, but of course you’re all invited as well!



If you want to broaden your horizons and help young status holders find their way in our country, then you can also become a JongGras Sports Buddy yourself. Contact details are in the flyer above. More information about the project can be obtained here and on their website. Unfortunately the information is in Dutch, so if you are interested or need help translating send me an email.

With bouldering regards,
Ewald van Dael
Secretaris - UBoulder
www.uboulder.com