Hello everyone and welcome to the final blog post of this academic year! 
We've had a really successful year and this blog is just to tie up the theme of the last two posts. 

This year we expanded Nightline to cover Nottingham Trent University and so far this has been a success! Congratulations to everyone who was able to make that happen and thank you to all our Trent Nightliners who took the plunge and got involved! A massive thank you as well to everyone who has helped with publicity at Trent, it's been a hard task becoming established over there and this job is still ongoing. Next year if you'd like to get involved with helping with that, please contact us on our email addresses or through our Facebook pages and there are always opportunities to get involved! 

Again thanks to all volunteers that have helped Nightline stay open throughout this year, we couldn't do it without you! We've had a very successful year of taking calls, IMs, emails, postsecrets and publicising Nightline! Well done! If you want to see photos of some of the events Nightline have attended this year please have a look at the blog post from two weeks ago where I uploaded a timeline with captions and photos. 

Instead of the bad bear joke of the week, this week I'm going to include some quotes from Winnie the Pooh to keep with the bear theme.

'How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard' ~ This quote is relevant to all third years leaving Nightline who those leaving who have used Nightline. We wish you good luck in life and thank you. 

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you.” ~ I've included this quote to serve as a reminder that Nightline is here for you all of summer. We keep our email and PostSecret services open for you to keep in contact with us if you'd like to. You may not be at university over summer, but Nightliners are dedicating to making sure you have someone to speak to. 

I hope you all have a fantastic summer. I'll be returning to where my parents live for the summer and meeting up with all my friends from Bear School. Have a great time and keep in touch!

Here's a few more pictures, you know I love them! 

Thank you everyone who has given me a hug this year, taken a pen, used a lighter or partied with me in Ocean. It's been a great year! 

Patch xx

Hi Everyone,

It's been a big week this week! The Farmers Market was on at Sutton Bonington on Wednesday and I had a great time! Thank you Maggie, Agata, Hannah and Reema for coming with me. We gave out lots of the famous Nightline pens and I loved meeting the students and residents of Sutton Bonington! We are making plans for me to visit SB a lot more next year, which I'm very excited for too!

It's been a busy week for Nightline volunteers themselves, too. Congratulations to all of the new committee members and I know everyone had a great time at the end of year social last night! Although some of you were looking very blurry eyed by the end of the night....
But now would be the perfect time to thank all Nightliners for their hard work throughout the year. Good luck to any volunteers who are leaving us this year and have a great summer the rest of you!

If you would like to contact Nottingham Nightline throughout the summer period, we keep our email services open. You can send us a completely anonymous email at nightlineanon@nottingham.ac.uk and we aim to reply in 48 hours. 

On top of this, why not use our PostSecret website if you don't want to email? Go to http://www.nottinghamnightline.co.uk/#/postsecret/4562430466 and post me your secrets! We then turn your secret into an image if you don't provide one yourself. 

Post me a secret. You aren't the only one who talks to a bear.

Next week will be my final weekly post of this year. I may post a few random blogs to keep you updated on my summer throughout the months we are all away though. I'll make next week a big one!

Patch 

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

Q: What is a bear's favorite drink?

A: Koka-Koala! 

Hello everyone!

Me again. This week I've been busy still promoting our 24 hour opening times! This is our FINAL week of being open during the day AND night, so please do call us if you have something that you'd like to talk about, need some information or would just like someone to talk to.

I've still been busy this week with volunteers handing out our Nightline study packs with our custom water bottles. We've also been handing flyers out under the doors of halls.

Limited Edition, I hope you got yours!

Seeing as we are coming to the end of the academic year, I thought I would post some of my favourite photos of friends and I from throughout this year. As expected, a majority of them are from Ocean, my second home (maybe even first).

I really felt a connection with this guy.

Because bears have deadlines too...

It was honestly an honour to meet Snow White and Minnie Mouse who had been such influences as a cub.

I needed rescuing from the crazy dancefloor of Ocean.

I've tried for so long to think of a caption for this and I'm afraid I've failed you.

I like to be early. 

Before I found my calling in life (being the Nightline Bear) I dabbled in a few things,

Not many people know this, but I'm actually very musically gifted. They asked me to join One Direction but I was busy.

Doing my abs workouts. How do you think I stay in such great shape?

Myself and Lizzie, one of the Nightline Coordinators, at one of the Varsity games!

There's only room for one bear in this city....

FRESHERS WEEK. The week people fell asleep on me. 

So finally, we made it all the way back to Freshers Week! I hope you enjoyed that! Good luck to everyone still with exams, I hope they go well.

Patch



*** Bad Bear Joke of the Week***
Q: What do you call a big white bear with a hole in his middle? 
A: A polo bear!
 

I know you read my end of blog jokes like this, but I can't BEAR to stop!