Location: Hostel, Imatra
Time: 2218 Finland
Weather: cold
Feeling: tired…zzz
Lessons: Visions of Future and Global Travel
Human Resource Management
Had our very first lesson today. Guess what. Every class we attended today only holds a total number of 8 students. Tiny class. The first lesson was alright~ we had a small (really small) group discussions, tours and breaks in between. It’s an exceptional case because this school is totally new, so the teacher decided to bring us around. The canteen was cool. They have a so-called mini overhead bridge on the level above the canteen. Despite the many coolness, it’s very sad to say that every lesson in our time table is 3 hours long, so it’s really hard to adapt. – Initial school shock
Second lesson was worse. I couldn’t stay awake and the class is SO small that I can’t sleep without the teacher noticing. The words are blurred and it changed from one sentence to two within minutes. My eyes won’t listen to my brain, which was really trying hard to stay awake. So to keep myself awake, I tried to answer whatever questions I could catch from the teacher, but it just so happen that whenever I tried to speak up, another student will be speaking at the same time. But it was a good thing that I am able to stay awake without having STM on what I want to say (Jermaine, I hope I had left my STM in Singapore), so when the teacher came back to me, I can answer.
And all along, I thought Kux was so hardworking because she was scribbling on the notes all the time. But she faced the same problem as me. She was like “Buang” .. I think we are too tired because it was only yesterday that we had arrive and please imagine the hardships we had gone through when dragging and carrying the mega-heavy and big luggage.
But amazingly, we are able to last till the very last minute of the lesson. After our lesson, we headed over to the international student office because WE HAVE NO INTERNET CONNECTION. And I’m still typing here. Swee Ting is just too hardworking. Forgoing her precious 8 hours of sleep. We have to buy internet. BUY?
Went grocery shopping. Long and tiring day. We spent a whole 2 hours in the Citymarket which is mega big. We shopped for everything we need – FOOD. Bought a lot of food. Chicken, cheese, bread, sauce.. it’s all food. Yayness to house brand and Euro Shopper if not we will be begging on the streets by next month. We found half a marinated chicken at €2.59 and frosted cornflakes that are twice the size of the one in Singapore. We now understand why Europeans twice the size of Singaporeans. Even the euros are two times our currency. Check out the size of one bag of chips. O.O And that is average sized. But there is nothing considered too big to the starving duo. A loaf of bread which is longer than what Singapore has, only took us 2 days to finish. Because we ate nothing but bread every meal!
Time: 2218 Finland
Weather: cold
Feeling: tired…zzz
Lessons: Visions of Future and Global Travel
Human Resource Management
Had our very first lesson today. Guess what. Every class we attended today only holds a total number of 8 students. Tiny class. The first lesson was alright~ we had a small (really small) group discussions, tours and breaks in between. It’s an exceptional case because this school is totally new, so the teacher decided to bring us around. The canteen was cool. They have a so-called mini overhead bridge on the level above the canteen. Despite the many coolness, it’s very sad to say that every lesson in our time table is 3 hours long, so it’s really hard to adapt. – Initial school shock
Second lesson was worse. I couldn’t stay awake and the class is SO small that I can’t sleep without the teacher noticing. The words are blurred and it changed from one sentence to two within minutes. My eyes won’t listen to my brain, which was really trying hard to stay awake. So to keep myself awake, I tried to answer whatever questions I could catch from the teacher, but it just so happen that whenever I tried to speak up, another student will be speaking at the same time. But it was a good thing that I am able to stay awake without having STM on what I want to say (Jermaine, I hope I had left my STM in Singapore), so when the teacher came back to me, I can answer.
And all along, I thought Kux was so hardworking because she was scribbling on the notes all the time. But she faced the same problem as me. She was like “Buang” .. I think we are too tired because it was only yesterday that we had arrive and please imagine the hardships we had gone through when dragging and carrying the mega-heavy and big luggage.
But amazingly, we are able to last till the very last minute of the lesson. After our lesson, we headed over to the international student office because WE HAVE NO INTERNET CONNECTION. And I’m still typing here. Swee Ting is just too hardworking. Forgoing her precious 8 hours of sleep. We have to buy internet. BUY?
Went grocery shopping. Long and tiring day. We spent a whole 2 hours in the Citymarket which is mega big. We shopped for everything we need – FOOD. Bought a lot of food. Chicken, cheese, bread, sauce.. it’s all food. Yayness to house brand and Euro Shopper if not we will be begging on the streets by next month. We found half a marinated chicken at €2.59 and frosted cornflakes that are twice the size of the one in Singapore. We now understand why Europeans twice the size of Singaporeans. Even the euros are two times our currency. Check out the size of one bag of chips. O.O And that is average sized. But there is nothing considered too big to the starving duo. A loaf of bread which is longer than what Singapore has, only took us 2 days to finish. Because we ate nothing but bread every meal!
Forgot to say about the food in school canteen. It’s buffet. No meals. You pick what you want and you pay €2.45. We both took a plateful and there was not much space left, so we decided to stop. But we realized our mistake - take another plate. We don’t feel full and stomach keep making lots of noise ever since the day we alighted. Stupid stomach juice.
The school has its own version of CMS here and it’s called Moodle. (If only it’s noodle)
Kux:
Our Russian flat mates arrived today, Marina and Anastasia (my fave cartoon). We ate pizza bread for dinner today. We were supposed to buy the real pizza base but we forgot to bring plastic bags and we couldn’t carry so many items in our bags. Finland is very environmentally friendly and charge €0.61 for 1 plastic bag. So we played cheat and stole some plastic bags from the fruits area. For dinner, we baked our already hard bread with pasta sauce, sausage and mozzarella. There was supposed to be pineapples too but we so conveniently forgot that we do not have a can opener with us. Our pizza turned out to be quite murderous. It can cause a concussion if it landed on someone’s head. But it tasted quite good J
WHEE!!! Lessons start at 12 tomorrow and school is just 5 mins walk away from hostel. Check out our time table: (eh...blog cannot put table ah?)
Monday: 9-11 Visions of future and global travel
12-3 Human resource mgmt
Tuesday: 11-2 B2B mkting
Wednesday: 9-12 International business
12-3 Visions / B2B
3-6 Destination mgmt
Thursday: 11-2 International business
Friday: 8-10 Human resourec mgmt
10-1 Destination mgmt
Wednesday is busy busy. We even have lessons that clash -_-
Swee Ting decided not to shower.
P.S: A Russian guy sat next to me today at visions of future and global travel lesson. Teehee. He kept knocking his knee against mine because we had to do a group discussion but I forgive him because he looks quite nice.
We promise to abide by Espall's #1 rule
25 August 2008
1 comment:
LOL.
I think I could just die looking at your timetable.
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