School is Starting Tomorrow

Finally, January 6th- the day that I've been looking forward to since my arrival in London. However, now that it is arriving I have a mix of excitement and slight apprenhensiveness going on in me. Excitement because I am able to experience classes in Canada; apprehensive because I am not sure what are the expectations of the Professors here. In NUS it is easy as we've either been taught by the professors before, or we's have heard about their teaching styles/expectations from students/workload from classes from people and seniors. Anyway, some uncertainty is part and parcel of exchange!

The last two days have been eventful. JC brought me around on my second day and on my third day, helped me to move into London Hall. He has really been a great help to me! He even offered to drive us to the Wal Mart supercentre so that we could pick up things like groceries and bed linens. I felt fortunate to have met such a nice fellow countryman. Who says Singaporeans are aloof?

Today was a great day too. I went to tour the campus with Orla, my Irish housemate. We found the law faculty building without much of a hassle and went around looking at almost every building in UWO. It's not as big as NUS Kent Ridge Campus but the architecture is much more awe-inspiring. We then had lunch at the UCC. I had a veggie Subway sandwich which is almost the same numerical price as Singapore, sans the exchange rate differential.

I then met up with my exchange buddy, Adriana. Adriana has a great personality which made her glow. We had great conversations both on the bus and over dinner. I was actually surprised that we seemed to have no barriers between us at all, linguistically or frequency wise. We clicked almost immediately and I found her to be a really sincere and genuine friend.

I think I'm just blessed to have met with such kindred souls within just a few days. I think it can only get better :)

Thinking about home, Joey told me that Ah gui is still tired from taking care of Taiqi on her own. I have to resist the thought that I shouldn't have come for exchange at all, because it'd not justify the lengths that Ah gui has gone to put me on this exchange.

Ok, time to sleep. 8.30am class tomorrow!