OUSA recently held an online giveaway for $800 worth of new camping gear. The winner, Tayla, reckoned that “good karma” won her the grand prize, which she is hoping to show off at R&A.
“Never have I ever won something like this,” said Tayla. She’d entered a few online contests in the past, but had never had any luck with them until now. A bunch of her mates are in isolation at the moment, and, because Tayla and her flatmates have been doing the good mahi of delivering groceries and aid, “We decided we had good karma and we thought that good karma would come back to us. And it has!”
Tayla was excited about the pots and pans included in the prize, “because I can use
them in the flat, we don’t really have many”. However, the real highlight of the giveaway for her was a brand new three-person tent. Tayla is a bit of a tent aficionado, not because she’s an especially keen tramper, but because “last R&V we had a two-man tent split between four girls. This one is a three-man tent, so I reckon we can get at least four or five of us.”
There’s a simple trick to making a small tent work at a music festival, said Tayla: “well, not everyone stays the night in the tent, haha, they find guys to go stay with.” This is a nuanced and delicate strategy, she explained: it’s important to “do a walk-by first, see if [the potential boy’s tent] is a no-go. If it is, you call a friend to get you out of that situation. You’ve just gotta take the punt, really.” When asked if this strategy worked at her last R&V, Tayla said yes, “it really did.”
While Tayla is keen to get the tent bumping at future festivals, she reckoned there were more potential adventures to be had than just joining the froth. “The only time I’ve really camped was at R&V but I dunno, I think it’s time to start something new. I think I’m gonna pull my red card and make all my flatmates go camping with me,” she said. Sorry if that’s a spoiler. Critic is unsure if her flatmates have tents, but if not, they can always follow Tayla’s simple advice, have a poke about the local sea lion populations and see if any of them have got some room to spare.