Day 4: Orientation, Free & Easy

Here goes another day over here in Wuhan. Slept rather late last night as was doing work and assignments. Woke up at around 8plus 9 this morning, get prepared and headed down to meet up with Mr Joseph Loh as well as the rest of the group. After all of us gathered, we headed out for our campus orientation whereby we have to walk rather long distance and at the same time, walk up a rather steep slope along the way to reach the block which our classroom are located for our lessons, which will begin officially next week, on Monday.

This is the block which we will be having our lessons for the next few weeks, starting this coming Monday, the Foreign Language School block.

After we reached the block, we were shown around to the classroom which we will be having our lessons and at the same time, we also went around the block and explore the other areas of the block such as the washrooms, corridors, posters, etc. To our surprise, the washroom over here was totally different from what we have back home. The washrooms here has an "open fashion" whereby there are no doors to the cubicles in the washroom. It was 100% open to the eyes of the rest of the people who was in the washroom.

At the same time, I also noticed some interesting quotes from some famous people around the world along the corridors. Here are some of the examples!

After the short orientation, its free & easy time for us again! Some of us headed back to our hostel rooms to rest and at the same time, to do up and complete the assignments which we have to complete such as the Individual Learning Plan.

Slacked around in the room for quite some time before my friends and I decided to head out to the streets to get some stuffs like detergent and of course, the most important of all, mineral water! Thus, after we send our clothes downstairs to the laundry, we headed out to get the stuffs that we want to buy and headed back to our hostel room to start our massive cleaning of our room, including the toilet. During the process, we realised that the room was very dirty and full of dust. It was very messy too!

After some time, we finally managed to clean up the whole room, tidy up or stuffs in the room.

Then, we headed downstairs to collect our laundry and to the canteen to get our dinner. After dinner was slacking time again till we had to head downstairs for a briefing at around 9pm regarding the weekend trip and activities which we will be having this weekend. After the briefing, we headed back to our rooms and here I am blogging about things that happened today! We are going for water rafting tmr and trekking the day after! It seems so fun! Can't wait for tomorrow to come faster. I believe all of us are going to enjoy ourselves totally and have lots of fun during this weekend trip and activities before our lessons officially begins next week and before we starts to get busy with school work and assignments!

Alrights. That's all for today! Got to start packing my stuffs for this weekend trip. Will blog about it when I'm back on Sunday! So till then, see you and enjoy! Here are some interesting photos which I took along the way. Click to enlarge. More photos will be uploaded on my facebook. Enjoy! :D

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment

My Reflections:

Based on my observations from what i gathered today, I realised that time is important to us. especially during the time we have during this Overseas Immersion Programme. I realised that I had wasted quite alot of time on slacking around. There are limited amount of time which we have during this OIP over here in Wuhan. There are alot of things which can be done during the time we have over here. There are also alot of things waiting for us to explore and discover. If time was wasted, we are unable to learn as much as we are supposed to learn and we are unable to experience as much as we are supposed to experience. Thus, it is important that we make full use of the time to learn as much as we could over here as we are all responsible for our own learning.

"Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn"
- Delmore Schwartz