Hello!

The topic of this weeks blogpost is the Nottingham Nightline PostSecret campaign. This campaign is over a year old now and has been extremely successful for Nottingham Nightline. What happens is; you post your secrets to me anonymously on the PostSecret website. You can then add a photo to accompany your secret or we will create an image ourselves.

These secrets are then uploaded to our PostSecret website and made into a slideshow. If you haven't already had a peek at the website, I really hope you do after reading this. Our volunteers work very hard making the secrets and images as emotive and appropriate as possible.

The website link is http://www.nottinghamnightline.co.uk/#/postsecret/4562430466.

I'm really happy students submit these secrets to me, it means a lot that so many of you send in your thoughts and feelings for me to turn into a visual format. If you do take time to look at the PostSecret slideshow, please do remember that it is students in Nottingham who send secrets in, people studying around you and who you may know. You also may find that a lot of the secrets relate to situations in your life.

If you've read this far, please take a few seconds out of your time to post your own secret and see what image we create for you and your secret! I've included a few of my favourite PostSecrets for you to have a look at below.

Thanks for reading,

Patch :)

P.S. I really enjoyed meeting all you Nottingham University students at Ocean on Friday. Let's never speak again about some of the dance moves I tried to pull off though. Some things need to stay in the past.

*** Bad Bear Joke of the Week! ***

What do you call a bear with no teeth??

A gummy bear!

Hello! Welcome to my blog!

I am Patch, the Nottingham Nightline Bear! Hopefully, some of you will recognise me from my many appearances in Ocean, Crisis, Portland and (my proudest moment) the Nottingham Uni Harlem Shake video!

I've recently arrived back in Nottingham for the final term. I think I've gone up a few fur sizes... Too. Many. Easter eggs. I'm excited to be back though. I have decided to start a blog just to give students in Nottingham a better idea on what I'm up to, and what the Nightline volunteers are up to! The idea is that I upload a new post every Sunday with details of what I have been up to during the week, and events/campaigns to look out for.

As we are at the start of this term, there isn't much to tell you at the moment! Other than mingling with students at Ocean, things have been pretty quiet! However, this won't last long and soon I'll be busy promoting Nightline's 24 hour campaign during the exam period. This means that Nightline will be available for you to email, IM, call or Skype at ANY time of day during the exam periods for both Nottingham Universities. 
Look out for Nightline volunteers handing out pens and study packs! 

If you are under and stress, have any worries, or even want to talk about problems not related to the exam period; please contact Nightline! Don't suffer in silence! Nightline are always ready and prepared for your call, it's what we are here for. 

I hope you've enjoyed my first blog post, hopefully next week there will be more events to include!

If you see me around campus and fancy a hug, please do come up to me! (I give THE best hugs!).

Enjoy your week and thanks for reading!

Patch


**Bad Bear Joke of the Week!**

Why shouldn't you take a bear to the zoo?
Because they'd prefer to go to the cinema!