Efter en dejlig nats søvn i hvad føles som min egen seng, mødte vi ind til 2. dag med orientation. I dag skulle vi skrive os op til fag, men problemet var bare at jeg ikke rigtigt vidste hvilke fag jeg skulle vælge!
Vi havde 1½ time til at skrive os op. Meget underligt, og lidt stressende da vi ikke rigtigt kendte mulighederne på forhånd, eller vidste noget som helst om hvordan det fungerede.
Heldigvis er det sådan herovre, at man skriver sig op til nogle fag, og i løbet af næste uge er der "drop-out week", hvilket betyder at du frit kan droppe dine fag, og vælge nogle helt andre. Rimeligt fint koncept, men når udvalget er så stort, bliver det hurtigt lidt uoverskueligt. Derudover skal du selv få dit skema til at gå op, så når man vil have fri hver fredag, og tirsdag+onsdag middag for at tage til Rotary-ting, så bliver det lidt kompliceret.
Jeg endte med microeconomics, American history, Georgia - A Spanish boarderland, Problems in sociology, Exploring Success, men der er vist en del af dem som bliver skiftet ud allerede inden næste uge :-)
Efter en kort video-konference med Ry Rotary (1 min. - 35 mins. forberedelse pga. teknikken), var jeg spændt på at se hvordan det stod til i min lejlighed og på mit værelse. Desværre var lugten ikke blevet bedre, på trods af at tæppet nu var helt tørt, og for at undgå at gøre noget forkert, ringede jeg til Rob og bad om hans hjælp til at løse situationen - og det gjorde han i løbet af 30 min! :-) Et hold fra "housing" kom til mit værelse, og fortalte at de ville udskifte tæppet, men at det dog først ville blive i morgen tidlig. Jeg skulle blot sørge for ikke at have noget liggende løst på værelset, og ingen ting på gulvet, så ordner de resten.
Om aftenen fik vi vores første amerikanske kirke-oplevelse da Christ's Fellowship Church inviterede på international middag - noget de gør hvert år. Efter middagen var der en smule "contemporary service", som betyder at de har et band der spiller moderne musik med religiøse tekster. Jeg vil kalde det et interessant og underholdende koncept, og folkene fra kirken var super søde.
Og nu er det tid til endnu i nat hos Jim og Theresa - forhåbentligt kan jeg flytte rigtigt ind i morgen :-)
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After a lovely night in what feels like my own bed (at Jim and Theresa's), we started our 2nd day of orientation. Today we chose our classes for the semester. Only problem was - I had no idea what to chose!
We had 1½ hours to sign up. Very strange, and pretty chaotic seeing as we didn't really know the possibilities beforehand, and didn't know how things worked.
Luckily, over here it works so that you sign up for classes, and then during next week they have "drop-out week" where you can drop any class, and take another. Pretty cool concept, only with this huge amount of classes it quickly seems overwhelming. Plus, you have to coordinate your own schedule, so when wanting to be off for Fridays, and Tuesdays and Wednesdays afternoons to attend Rotary events, it gets complicated.
I ended up with micro economics, American history, Georgia- A Spanish boarderland, Problems in sociology, Exploring Success, but I think I'm changing most of them before next week :-)
After a quick video-conference with Ry Rotary (1 min. - 35 prep due to IT), I was looking forward to checking on my room. Unfortunately, the smell had not gotten better, so to avoid doing anything wrong, I called Rob to ask for help solving the situation - and he did in 30 mins! A team from housing came down and quickly decided that they would replace my carpet, but that they couldn't get to it until tomorrow. I just needed to get my stuff up from the floor, and into the drawers, and the would take care of the rest.
For dinner we had our first American church experience as the Christ's Fellowship Church invited to international dinner, which they do every year. Afterwards they had a contemporary service with just a few songs from the band, and then we had presentations of all international students. I would call it an interesting and entertaining experience, and the people from the church were really nice.
And now it's time for another night at Jim and Theresa's - hopefully, tomorrow, I can move in for good :-)
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