Brookside Weekly Digest 29 April-5 May 2024

What's happening at Brookside

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Brookside Hall
April 29, 2024

Hi friends! We hope you are ready for another productive week, with a public holiday in the middle! Here is what is coming up at Brookside this week and over the next few weeks.

This week’s focus

  • Pizza Day on Wednesday 1 May, 16:00-19:00
    We will make our own pizzas from scratch! Our promise: you'll never taste a pizza so good ever again! Until you come back to Brookside for another Pizza Day! Please bring a snack and cool drink to share. You can arrive as early as 15:00 to help with the preparations.

  • Meditation on Friday 3 May, 16:30-17:00
    On Fridays at 16:30.

  • Spiritual retreat from Friday 3 May evening to Sunday 5 May afternoon
    This is a silent retreat away from the city to be alone with God, quite a powerful experience to “catch up with God” and set your life on a good course.

  • Study Boot Camp on Saturday 4 May, from 08:00 till late
    A full day of immersion into your study without distractions. Put yourself into “flight mode” and experience the silence of the Brookside study room. More details will be published during the week on our Brookside Events WhatsApp group.

  • Brookside Running Club on Sunday 5 May, 08:00-09:00
    We meet at Brookside at 08:00 for some stretches. Then we run for about 30 minutes and end with some more stretches.

Make sure not to miss:

Last few days to book the May retreat! Message Alex or reply to this email asap to make arrangements!

A spiritual retreat is a silent weekend away from the city to be alone with God. It’s a powerful experience to bring meaning and direction into your life.

Coming up in the next few weeks…

  • Games Night on Friday 10 May at 17:00
    Let’s unwind together!

  • Monthly recollection on Saturday 11 May, 10:00-12:00
    A couple of hours of quiet prayer in which we can look at our lives in the presence of God.

Save the date for later on

  • Study Boot Camp on Saturday 25 May & 1 June, from 08:00 till late
    A full day of immersion into your study without distractions. Put yourself into “flight mode” and experience the silence of the Brookside study room.

Food for thought

Cal Newport’s book How to Become a Straight-A Student is a fun, pragmatic look at succeeding, while also enjoying university life. You don’t need to grind hard or be naturally talented to excel, and Newport’s research shows that straight-A students have numerous things in common, and use similar unconventional strategies to work smarter, not harder. This is quite a light read packed with practical advice from the author of the best-seller Deep Work.

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