After several months of stagnation and a broken promise about wanting to continue on from my last post, I am writing to say that I've reached Nottingham safe and sound, tired but alive :) Today i moved into my new accomm, quite happy with the room that i've got, cosy but big enough for me to pace about, fidget and perhaps do a jigsaw puzzle on the floor.
Right now, I've a flatmate from China, who's gonna do Masters in Law. Cool huh? I guess I was too hasty in speaking to her first in English, so she hesitated awhile before telling me that I can call her "Faith". Then i said my name is "Zi Jing". So she looked at me and asked where I was and if i spoke chinese! Haha. so funny. I dunno why Chinese pple like to give themselves English names... what is wrong with calling yourself what you've always been called? Anyway, on 1st impressions, i feel like i can talk to her quite well, hopefully this year will be one where I can make new friends from all over the world and just be merry and enjoy school.
Even tho this is my 4th time coming back here, I still felt that pang of home-sickness and a tad of loneliness and a foreign feel. the past 2 months have been a most restful and fulfilling summer holidays for me, with the a capella concert with choir friends, reading many novels, going swimming often enough to make me love the exercise now, and just spending much time with family and friends. then today, the whole academic world of psychology came back to me with a fren asking me to do a psy survey for a lecturer! dear me.
Um. Next week is an induction week for the post graduate psychology courses. I am no longer based in School of Psychology, but the Institute of Work, Health and Organisations, which is concerned with psychology applied to W.H.O. The course which im studying is MSc in Occupational Psychology. Class size is estimated to be about 40 big, which is quite big compared to other courses. This course is really new to me, i've never done any modules related to Occ Psy in my undergrad, except for a dissertation which was written out of my own research. Should be interesting i think, except for the fact that i don't really know what to expect in terms of the learning curve, style of teaching, and whether i will really enjoy this course.
To you who's reading, hope that you're well and drop a tag!
Right now, I've a flatmate from China, who's gonna do Masters in Law. Cool huh? I guess I was too hasty in speaking to her first in English, so she hesitated awhile before telling me that I can call her "Faith". Then i said my name is "Zi Jing". So she looked at me and asked where I was and if i spoke chinese! Haha. so funny. I dunno why Chinese pple like to give themselves English names... what is wrong with calling yourself what you've always been called? Anyway, on 1st impressions, i feel like i can talk to her quite well, hopefully this year will be one where I can make new friends from all over the world and just be merry and enjoy school.
Even tho this is my 4th time coming back here, I still felt that pang of home-sickness and a tad of loneliness and a foreign feel. the past 2 months have been a most restful and fulfilling summer holidays for me, with the a capella concert with choir friends, reading many novels, going swimming often enough to make me love the exercise now, and just spending much time with family and friends. then today, the whole academic world of psychology came back to me with a fren asking me to do a psy survey for a lecturer! dear me.
Um. Next week is an induction week for the post graduate psychology courses. I am no longer based in School of Psychology, but the Institute of Work, Health and Organisations, which is concerned with psychology applied to W.H.O. The course which im studying is MSc in Occupational Psychology. Class size is estimated to be about 40 big, which is quite big compared to other courses. This course is really new to me, i've never done any modules related to Occ Psy in my undergrad, except for a dissertation which was written out of my own research. Should be interesting i think, except for the fact that i don't really know what to expect in terms of the learning curve, style of teaching, and whether i will really enjoy this course.
To you who's reading, hope that you're well and drop a tag!
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