Sunny days ... ah, sunny, sunny, sunny days ... Saturday 22 April 2006

Ain't nothing better in the world you know ... than chatting with Aston alumni on a Saturday.

Ok. The song doesn't quite go like that, but as the student callers could tell you, sunny days makes for lots of alumni out enjoying the weather. Plus, a football game between Chelsea and Liverpool. And waiting to get into the call centre (here's Becky who has been waiting in the corridor for over 1/2 an hour). All conspired to put us a little behind at first.

But there were lots of people in other countries who were apparently not enjoying this lovely British weather. Alumni in places like Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Greece, Thailand, Oman, Indonesia, China and Canada were obviously just waiting for our students to chat with them.

So our final tally took the calling campaign over the £118,000 mark.

There was a flurry of activity on the blog ... mostly between students trying to one-up each other.

And I'm not going to mention which student set off the alarm in the toilet, but her initials are ...

Funniest commentary from caller notes: "I asked him how he liked his course, which was followed by around 15 seconds of complete silence, and you coul hear insects and stuff like in the movies!! Finally he got around to saying that it was ok...said it was a hard degree and it was good."