I've been in that Fayres on Tuesday and Wednesday. They took place in the Gallowgat Union, a huge Complex owned by the Student Association. On Tuesday was the Soc (societies) Fayre, where all socs and a couple of companies and clubs introduced themselves to the Freshers. It was just jammed and music was all over the place, with each club trying to play the loudest and best music.
There are so many socs (Whisky society, First Aid Society, Chinese soc, international soc, gaelic soc, history soc, road trio soc,....
On Wednesday was the Sports Fayre. Even before you could go in there, "kangaroos" (which are students in kangaroos costumes, cause there are no kangaroos in Scotland) were stopping all the traffic, crazy people with mobile loudspeakers were talking things, you didn'd understand, cause everybody was shouting at the same time. Inside, all the sports socs introduced themselves. So people were walking around in their sports cloth and gave lots of flyers away. I was interested in the orienteering soc, the tennis soc, the walking/mountaineering soc and the diving soc, but didn't sign up for anything yet.
After those two days I got 13 plasticbags, 5 rulers, 3 plastic club-ID-cards (you need these to get in some clubs), 9 biros, 1 shaver, 2 washing detergent tabs, 2 condoms, 7 lollies, dozens of free beers (but only if I go in that clubs) and just lots of paper.........
These events are very important, cause most of the free time will be spent in the socs and so the exchange between undergrads and postgrads is much better.
We should have something like that in Germany, how's that in Canada and in other places???