With the helps of my seniors in Jinan University, i started my new life on 6th September. The first day, what i was surprised was the campus of this university with the area of 1,695,200 square meters, it is too big for me (for the first week). The first day, also the registration day, was a nightmare for me. I assumed that everythings should be fine when i registered but the staffs who incharged nearly drove me crazy. The one who was inside told me to go outside to complete the works there first, but the one outside wanted me to go inside for confirmation. Go in and out, go in and out... that damn procedure had wasted at least 30 minutes of my precious time.
After i registerd successfully, it was time to get my room. That was the moment which i was waiting for, not because i wanted to see how luxury my room was, it was because the heavy luggages finally had a place to settle and they nearly "killed" me i thought. Can you imagine if you carry 2 bags with you and a 20kg luggage and walk about half an hour to your destination, you cant even sweat after that. And you must gritted your teeth when you are climbing up a slope, a long slope. What a good start !
Well, my dormitory has 20 floor and i stay in 17th floor. There are 8 of them in the room, and has 1 single room, 2 double room and the others have to sleep in living room. Fortunately, i get a double room and my roommate, Nicholas is from Sandakan, Sabah. Besides, there is also a bathroom with only heater in my room. As you see, there is a desk and cupboard under my bed. My roommates come from different countries: there are 3 Malaysians (include me), 4 from Hong Kong and 1 from Taiwan. But all of us are in the same class so we always attend the classes together.
Cleaning my dirty room and buying daily necessities were the most important things to do. There is nothing left in my room, neither fan nor air-conditional, what you can see is just your bedstead. Lots of dust and spider web, and luckily i don't find any dead rat here.
I started school on 8th September. And there is nothing special in the 1st semester. No medicine, no corpse, no white handsome suit, all i need to do is attend the class and finished my homework.
The 8 subjects are :
Fundamental of Computer (lots of assignments),
Mental Health (a profound lesson by an American lecturer who always satirised China),
Comprehensive English (the word "anyhow" is her theme, at least 5 times per lesson),
Oral English (a funny teacher from New Zealand, the only class i won't fall asleep because we have to present our drama every lesson),
Physical Education (a friendly basketball coach),
Modern China (learn the history of China, always "fishing" when listening to her),
College Chinese (boring lesson, fortunately i passed the Pinyin test so i no need to attend the class) ,
and
Advanced Math (the most terrible and over 3 hours lesson, i bet, she will drive you suicide if you attend her class because of her oral english. Even the China students hear nothing from her).
Our class has 41 undergraduates. Because i'm studying in the International School, i have different kinds of classmates who are come from China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, USA, Columbia, Yemen and Kenya. 11 diferent countries nations are now here knowing each others and will study together for 6 years. For my class advisor, he is now in Year 4 and studied Clinical Medicine also.
I had been chosen to be the Studies Committee in class but not monitor. Being one of the committee in class, i could see how my China friends organized an event. They don't have proper plan to organized something, they just do what they should do and won't care even they done something which didn't make sense. Here, they will ask why we shall have a review meeting after conducting an activity, they will ask you how to do a meeting report and they will do every things on last minute. I assume that they don't have any experiences on conducting activities, but in common sense, will you start to decide where to buy your BBQ chicken wings at 1 pm if your barbecue started at 6 pm, will you forget to book a bus and book it at the day you are going to have a trip? Will you ???
Although their diffuse skills and organizational skills are not as good as we are, they have a very great learning attitude. They keep doing they revision and learn as much as they can. In my dorm, i can't feel any tension or the deep learning atmosphere. I think that is what i should learn from them. Besides, they can solve difficult maths problem by just looking the questions.
It is incredible!
What i can do now is Gambateh lo ...
"NO PAIN, NO GAIN"
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