It’s the weekend again…
Yay! A week has just past…it was a very busy week though, with lectures and tutorials everyday. Through the one whole week, I just hadn’t have the time to meet and say ‘hello’ to the other friends of mine who are in the different courses, not until I met a few of them yesterday when I went to the bank to get my ATM card. It was just like I have not seen them in ages!
So I managed to attend all the classes everyday and tried very hard to concentrate and understand the lecturers, as most of them speak with their accents. As I have been taken a year-off from studying, it was actually a hard task for me to fit in the situation where I have to keep myself organized and ready for the classes; follow the timetable, thus reminding myself about the next lesson; knowing what to do in the class and where to go for help, etc. There was a day when I have the Human Biology lesson; I didn’t know that I will be going to see the cadavers (yes, the dead bodies!) on that very first lesson. I totally have no idea on what I will be doing for that lesson on that day, not until one of my flat mates, Melissa, who has studied Human Biology before, told me to look into my workbook and found out that. So, she sort of got me ‘prepared’ for the session by telling me what is it going to be like, so I won’t feel shock or afraid then. And yeah, she really helped me a lot for that, and I wasn’t shock when I was brought to see the cadavers. Besides that, she is so kind that she borrowed me her Human Biology workbook and textbook, and so I save the money for buying it.
And then….yeah, I just got myself enrolled in one more unit (subject), that is, the Intercultural Communication unit. It’s an English course, in help for students from a non-English speaking background to improve their English language skills. As English is not my first language, I find it benefits me a lot if I take up the course, as I have always wanted to improve my English skills. I was told that it will appear as an elective unit to me, and it is not a significant unit, so I will not have my course (food science & technology) terminated should I fail this unit. And what’s more, it is offered to the first year undergraduate students for free! So after I have thought of it in a short period of time, I made up my mind to enroll in the course in the last minute, just before the class started. I attended the first lecture as well as the tutorial, and I got to know people from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, etc. It created a great opportunity for me to know the different cultures, and thus, expanding my friend network.
Besides being busy in studies, I’ve never failed to chat online with my friends in Malaysia, for almost every night. And…what else? Yeah, had a flat meeting dinner with my flat mates last night, in Victoria Park. Melissa drove all 6 of us there in her red mini toyota(actually we were against the law, where there should only be 5 persons including the driver in a standard car). It only took about a few minutes to get there, and we had chili mussels, pasta, pizza and garlic bread. It was a wonderful dinner though. Then, had a long late night talk with Wern, the other flat mate. She noticed that I’ve been very quiet these few days, so she offered me to have a talk. I told her what is actually happening on me, and she gave me advice and comforted me. We talked about ourselves, our family, things we encountered here, everything. We found out that we have some common in our thinking, and that made us know each other more. Honestly, I feel much better after the talk.
Ok, that’s about it for this week. Looking forward to have more wonderful and amazing weeks ahead.
So I managed to attend all the classes everyday and tried very hard to concentrate and understand the lecturers, as most of them speak with their accents. As I have been taken a year-off from studying, it was actually a hard task for me to fit in the situation where I have to keep myself organized and ready for the classes; follow the timetable, thus reminding myself about the next lesson; knowing what to do in the class and where to go for help, etc. There was a day when I have the Human Biology lesson; I didn’t know that I will be going to see the cadavers (yes, the dead bodies!) on that very first lesson. I totally have no idea on what I will be doing for that lesson on that day, not until one of my flat mates, Melissa, who has studied Human Biology before, told me to look into my workbook and found out that. So, she sort of got me ‘prepared’ for the session by telling me what is it going to be like, so I won’t feel shock or afraid then. And yeah, she really helped me a lot for that, and I wasn’t shock when I was brought to see the cadavers. Besides that, she is so kind that she borrowed me her Human Biology workbook and textbook, and so I save the money for buying it.
And then….yeah, I just got myself enrolled in one more unit (subject), that is, the Intercultural Communication unit. It’s an English course, in help for students from a non-English speaking background to improve their English language skills. As English is not my first language, I find it benefits me a lot if I take up the course, as I have always wanted to improve my English skills. I was told that it will appear as an elective unit to me, and it is not a significant unit, so I will not have my course (food science & technology) terminated should I fail this unit. And what’s more, it is offered to the first year undergraduate students for free! So after I have thought of it in a short period of time, I made up my mind to enroll in the course in the last minute, just before the class started. I attended the first lecture as well as the tutorial, and I got to know people from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, etc. It created a great opportunity for me to know the different cultures, and thus, expanding my friend network.
Besides being busy in studies, I’ve never failed to chat online with my friends in Malaysia, for almost every night. And…what else? Yeah, had a flat meeting dinner with my flat mates last night, in Victoria Park. Melissa drove all 6 of us there in her red mini toyota(actually we were against the law, where there should only be 5 persons including the driver in a standard car). It only took about a few minutes to get there, and we had chili mussels, pasta, pizza and garlic bread. It was a wonderful dinner though. Then, had a long late night talk with Wern, the other flat mate. She noticed that I’ve been very quiet these few days, so she offered me to have a talk. I told her what is actually happening on me, and she gave me advice and comforted me. We talked about ourselves, our family, things we encountered here, everything. We found out that we have some common in our thinking, and that made us know each other more. Honestly, I feel much better after the talk.
Ok, that’s about it for this week. Looking forward to have more wonderful and amazing weeks ahead.
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