Karere Karapu/Club News

LU Nerd Association

Appreciate Wine?

The Wine Appreciation Club is seeking new members to join the club for Semester two. The club meets on campus in the HTL (Winery Lab) for wine tastings, usually held on Thursdays, subject to numbers, from 5pm. Costs are generally $15 for a tasting that covers six different wines.

Wine tastings are a great way to experience and build knowledge of a wide range of wine styles and regions. I recommend the club to those doing the GDipV&O and BV&O. It is a great way to build confidence in your sensory evaluation of wines. You can of course join if your studies are not wine-related!

To join, go to the LUSA page / Clubs / Find a club / Wine Appreciation Club, and you can sign up through QPAY. Members receive discounted tasting prices. Wizards or Zombies? Ally or axis? Love and war with battles to remember for generations! This could be all yours for a small price of your soul. Does this sound too good to be true? Well let me tell you that Lincoln university now has just the thing to tickle your fancy. LUNA (Lincoln University Nerd Association) has all of this and more. You want it, we’ve got it. If its your love for board games, video games, movies, anime, DND or more we want you! And if you got this far and through and thought “Gee I don’t know what these folks are on about” we want you too! We welcome all creatures from across the land. You might be asking why you haven’t heard of us. The answer is simple. We are just a youngling, at a modest age of 1 semester in fact! As with all good things they take time to iron out the wrinkles and become a well working machine. In semester one we had our debut meeting with a fantastic gathering of more than 15 people. With no plan in place people bought their own games and we came to an impromptu decision to undertake an investigation of the group in a game of Werewolf. A fun group interactive game with randomised characters in a town and personal input into character backgrounds. It’s a game that the players control to out who the werewolves are, while members of the town are mysteriously disappearing. Do you have what it takes to out the werewolf and save the town? Or can you defend your own case to survive the judgement of the town? LUNA has since had two meetings in quick succession at the end of semester 1 for a well-earned study break during exams. In these meetings the group decided to divide into smaller games, taking a walk through American national parts, collecting birds in your habitat, battling to have the best granny (yes granny – you read that right), a simple game of chess or a slightly more heated game of Uno. This semester we are aiming to keep the ball running with more meetings of board games and with a committed crew we are hoping to start a DnD campaign. There is also a potential for a group movie outing or a night in with Mario Cart battles. Bring your own ideas and we’ll make it happen. If you want to keep in touch with what we are up to join our Facebook page. We can’t wait to have many more adventures with new crew mates (and we have snacks).