Day 4 - Medical Students' Orientation

Let me start of by stating clearly that I was late for the orientation AND it WASN'T my fault. Initially, they announced that the orientation was to be held at 10.30am. However, they brought forward the time to 10am last night. Normally, this would have been announced by e-mail or online notice boards, which I do check before I go to bed.

But this was not the case this time. The message was transmitted by word of mouth and can you believe all my friends thought, "He/she (other friends) should have told him, so I guess I don't need to."!?

So yeah, I was late. I left early, but because I was still rather unfamiliar with the place, I arrived at exactly 10.30am. So, I was screwed. The good thing was, there were also others who were screwed. Another good thing, the speakers today were boring and I missed the bulk of their hypnotic chanting.

After the orientation, we were free to run around till 3.30pm. So, I, Yan Shun, Valerie, Nabila and Xinyi went to Tesco Marrion again. Oh, Jean (a senior) came along too because she needed stuff, although she hid that by saying that she would guide us there since we might get lost (riiiight...).

After buying lots of groceries (I still can't find that non-stick wok and spatula), we quickly returned to Belgrove (our residence) to drop off our things before going for the library tour.

Finally, at 3.30pm, the PMCSA had an ice-breaking event which consisted of several games. It was fun but nothing special. I was hoping for a cross-campus scavenger hunt or something, but we were stuck in the Health Science Centre playing charades. Booooo....

I headed home after that. Upon arrival, I met my last housemate to arrive, a French ERASMUS student by the name of Nattenaya (I do not know how to spell his name but it's read "NAT-A-NEIGH-YAH). Yuan Shi brought back some friends for a group cooking session too. So, we all had fun cooking, eating and cleaning together.

I hope thins go well between us. The main problem now is that Yuan Shi speaks Chinese-style broken English and Nattenaya speaks French-style broken English while I speak Manglish. Looks like we'll have to settle our communication problems first.

Oh, Yuan Shi and his friends came from Hubei. And I don't understand a single word of their dialect!