Beethovan’s dun-dun-dun-duuuun! (Silvia)
It was my first official day of uni yesterday, shock, horror!
I was facing the day with apprehension. I looked forward to it because it was the start of a new chapter in my life. Yet I also dreaded it because it would mean I would be wandering around Melbourne’s ridiculously sized campus by myself. And a map. And with my non-existent sense of direction (I justify that by insisting I am not a pigeon), something was sure to go wrong. Late for a lecture, perhaps. Or even stack it over a step when my nose was buried in my map.
And if you were wondering, yes, I did stack it though I didn’t fall. I just regained my balance and pretended nothing happened. And I was late for a tutorial in the labyrinth of Richard Berry. How many mazes of buildings must we have at uni? Wasn’t Baldwin Spencer enough?!
I was also dreading it because I knew I’d be lonely. Making friends is not an easy task but because we were all new, I think everyone had something in common to talk about. I mean, I talked to someone in every single one of my classes. I even talked to someone at the bus stop and in the chemistry Labyrinth (no, it’s not a maze, that’s its name). Everyone is so friendly, it did make my day go better.
I learned a lot too, not in the academic sense, but people-wise. There are so many people in uni and diversity is a given. Not only that, but also individuality. I mean, some of the people I saw would normally have made me blanch, avoid eye contact and creep away like a predatory rabbit (and to think I haven’t seen Forrest Gump). But it’s rather hard to do that when you’re sitting less than a metre away from them. I did talk to them and what a surprise, conversation flowed like a stream. We had some things in common!
My life consists of a relatively short eighteen years. The furtherest I have been away from the protective wings of my parents are the city, and only in the past year. I know nothing of the world and my first day of uni was a real eye-opener.
May the rest of my days be the same.
~Silvia
That was almost exactly the same as my day haha!!!! even i stacked it on the stairs near the sydney myer asia theater lol, thank god no one saw me actually fall down the stairs, like i litterally missed the last step and fell onto the ground, i now have another bruise lol!!
I too tried to talk to people in my lectures and was happy to find a friend from whitley was in a lot of my lectures so we can always sit together and i was soooo happy to find a friend from international house is in my biol tute so I wasnt lonely!! so happy haha. Im sure everything will become easier like i just think of it as everyone is in the same position as us, not knowing anyone and wanting someone to talk to 😀
It was fun, wasn’t it? *beams* I kinda wish I saw that fall of yours, it would have been hilarious! Haha, I think I was in full view of at least one hundred people, oh well 😛 I’m sure I became a bit of an ice-breaker.
You’re lucky, having a friend in so many classes! I only have someone in about three of mine :/ Oh well, it’s an opportunity to make more friends ^^
haha…yeah…the whole uni is kinda like a maze…for me…i didn’t think my orientation host showed me enough of the whole uni…it took me some exploring as well to figure out where the lectures & how everything else goes…i randomly sat and went online on the computer on the first floor of the Baillieu library the other day without knowing that i’d actually have to book the in advance first…haha…opssie!
Pigeons are awesome.
You have to book computers? O_o Aina, go to the Labyrinth in the chem library instead! You can totally facebook there 😛