End of O-Week

Time really passed by really fast. It's the 23rd already and O-week has ended, time to update some of the happenings.

2nd day of O-wk was pretty boring, was only looking forward to the free bbq lunch. Haha. We had a mass faculty(NRAVS) talk, telling us what to expect, the library, the student services blah blah blah, was really boring. Then after a 1hr break, we had the program advising for NRAVS students and most of the students r vet students lol. After that came the event I was most excited about, FREE LUNCH!!! But its hotdogs again and beef schitnzel, well who m i to complain when im getting free lunch wahhahah. Yeah so my sgp grp got ourselves food and sat down on the grass patch like banglas do. Back in sg only banglas would sit on any grass patch to have their meals, well i guess i have to fit in with the australian culture but i wouldnt do this in sg lol. Anyway, chatted with some other grps and as the weather was getting worse we decided to head back to our accomodation. So this is the end of the 2nd day of O-wk, pretty boring ya.

3rd day of O-wk, we had our talk by the new head of vet sch. He sounded like a very helpful n gd guy, hopefully everyone in my batch will graduate because of him lol. After this talk, our UQ Vet Students Assoc.(UQVSA) showed us an interesting slideshow, it was really funny. It showed the past events they had. They also invited some of the seniors to give a speech. Yeah n so most of us joined the UQVSA, i paid aud$55 for a yr to join that. We then proceeded to Market Day in the Great Court. Market Day is the day where clubs, societies, other organisations set up booths to tout us to buy things or join them. It was kinda boring, nothing interesting, in the end i only joined the International Singapore Club or something like that, I paid aud$5 for the whole yr which is not too bad, if they have events n stuff if not i would be asking for my 5bucks back lol.
After market day, we headed to a field where they were having another bbq! lol yes it was hotdogs again, so in these 3 days ive eaten hotdogs for lunch consecutively haha. After lunch they played some games, my friend wanted to go take a look arnd market day again as we didnt finish walking the whole thing. Yeah so i accompanied him, After an hr or so we headed back to our accomodation lol. Basically this market day wasnt as interesting as it was hyped up to be, disappointing.

3rd day of O-wk, we went to Gatton campus, 80km up north from my campus in St Lucia. It's gonna be a 1 and 1/2 hrs drive IF there was not traffic jam. -.-!!! Anyway in the morning we met at the grass patch in front of our Sch of Vet Sci to reg., got a free t-shirt and a name tag. After everybody changed n settled down, we boarded our bus to Gatton. The 1st half of the journey we could still see houses, shopping centres and buildings, the 2nd half, poof, it turns into a flat land, with farms, handful of houses and hills/mountains in the horizon at the sides of the road. We are in rural Australia. After 1 and 1/2 hr(lucky no jam), we reached Gatton Campus. It looks new and has more greenery than St Lucia. Played some ice-breaker games, had talks, played some team-building games, had talks again and played more games.It was fun and i really enjoyed myself that day, and i got quite tired at the end of it. But yeah the talks and games are helpful, informative, meaningful and FUN, really hope that our yr can be united and helpful to one another. We left Gatton at 1715 and reached St Lucia at 1845, again we were lucky there was no traffic jam. Went to the supermarket to get some food n came back to cook. My friends at International Hse had no more food left lol so they had to eat out. After their dinner they came to look for me, so we chatted for a while be4 they headed back to their college. End of 3rd day of O-wk.

The next few days had nothing on, so i basically just slacked at home lol. Okay time for some photos in the next entry. Take care to all who's reading this.