Classes are… interesting. Very simular structure to back home. The classes I’m enrolled in are: Public Relations in Action, Hospitality service management, Economics for business and finally Human Resource Management in Practice. This is only week 2 but I’ll break them all down for you J
PR
It’s a 2nd year subject. There lecturer only let students who had done a PR module in 1st year, or exchange students do it… that’s why I’m allowed in. I’ve never done any PR work so I was a little worried at first that it would be difficult. But I now have an ‘into’ textbook and the first assignment is group. There are 3 other English in the group they are fun and seem to know what they are doing so that’s helpful. I’m trying to be carefree with the work load because I only need 40% to pass (and grades don’t transfer back home… whether I get 41% or 99% UWS love it). Ill aim higher than the 40 because I like knowing I can do better… I told Gemma she ruins my standards and I can’t settle for a pass- but that’s not really a bad thing. The Assignment is on Binge drinking; we’re making a documentary - so that should be fun.
Hospo
This is the only class I have with Gemma. The subject itself doesn’t appear to be difficult at all. Our first assignment is a poster regarding trends. So we’re going to kill that!! – Poll would be disappointed with the standard of posters… will show the Brits how it’s done! Lol. We aim for full marks and if we get that 30% we’ll really only need another 10% from our final report. So I should just be able to write my name… a few heading with some key words in dot points – and ill be sweet.
Econ
At the moment I’m sitting in my Business Econ Class- it’s only a first year, so general basics… however, I’ve never really done any economics before so that’s hard. The Teacher is a little deaf (yes he told us that), I had a problem trying to answer a question and he said I was wrong but then explained exactly what I said. Even worse, when asking a question, he will answer something completely different and you won’t know if you were wrong or right at all. Feeling slightly nerdy as I plan to head to the library (or the LRC here *) to borrow a text book so I can just learn it all myself.
*The LRC stands for a Learning Research Centre… Gemma and I are a little disappointed… we don’t see what makes it a Learning resource centre as appose to a library… there isn’t anything there that exceeded our expectations and saying LRC is ever so slightly more effort. I am trying to resist calling it an LRC, but I feel the pressure to call it what the ‘locals’ call it.
Finally I have HR.
This was the unit I was most excited about. I decided to do a HR uni after a lady I worked with at the V8 supercars said she thought I’d be good at it. I was interested. It seems to be a lot of work. Not that im worried about that challenge. I know I can do it and I know ill learn a lot. At the moment we have just been given homework, which is a 10 min group presentation. My difficulty is now being in a group with people who don’t speak English as their first language. There are 2 French people and one guy from England. I find that I have to work harder to communicate and its difficult discussing legalities etc when there is only one group member familiar with the national procedures. We may also be getting a 3rd French person… at which point should I just give up and just learn French? Lol. They are all lovely people and I’m excited about the times we’ll get to be social and talk about each other and the differences about us based on where we are from.
Im still getting use to the intranet system they have here… I’ve spend most of my first week tutes not having the worksheets because I didn’t know there were any cause I couldn’t find them. Gemma and I are hoping that the e-resources from UWS covers most of what we’ll need because we have no idea how to use this system.
WINDSOR CASTLE
This trip was organised by the University… It cost us around 20 pounds which included entry and the bus trip. I was soooo very excited! I was going to visit the Queen!!! For those who don’t know! I kind of adore the queen! Sarah (my best friend) and I usually celebrate The Queen’s birthday every year. The party generally stretches for three days… we drink, eat poms (like potato gems), have Birthday cake, wear tiaras and make shirts to wear all weekend. It’s Kind of Awesome. Anyway there was an audio tour which was highly educational. We were able to just roam around the selected areas as we listened. A few really cool things were seeing Queen Marys Dolls house and the Drawing gallery. Some of my favourites in the drawing gallery were photos of the royal family while they were young etc. such as Queen Elizabeth with King George Vl and the rest of the family. There was also a china room which contained various editions of royal china or gifts of china given to the monarchy. I think Mum and Erin would have loved it- and how old it was! I think my most favourite bit was walking up the Grand staircase in the state apartments. The audio guide was telling me that I was walking up the Grand Staircase that the Queen herself walks up, and guests to the state apartments would walk up. I was just in ore! Thought of you Sarah! – You would have enjoyed it. Just knowing I wasn’t far from the queen; and being in the different rooms with various Royal purposes!
We ate lunch at a pub down the street from the castle. It was called ’51’. We went there because Gemma knew a girl who was working there, form home. We spent the rest of the afternoon wondering the perimeter of the castle. Long walk was a long walk... so we didn’t walk down it. To explain there is this long pathway which starts at the castle and appears to lead to a statue at the other end. It’s lovely and green… but such a far way to walk so, although we were curious, we didn’t walk the distance. We were exhausted by the end of the day and slept the bus ride home!
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| Nicole, Claire, Jordan Jumping at the Top of Long Walk |
Pimps and Hoes
If you’ve read previously you would have been told that there is a night club on campus called the forum. Every Friday night they have a theme.. the first we went to was School disco, there was a Jungle one we didn’t go to… and this week just past there was a pimps and Hoes which we inevitably, went to. Pre drinks/Pre gaming with peeps in Teford court (a different residential section to ours- a closer one to the forum) was awesome! Lucky enough Gem and I were able to Claim The Wonderful Bachelor Tom as our pimp for the evening!
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| Us with the Lovely Tom - Our Pimp for the Evening |
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| Rose and Claire. Hoe Posing |
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| Claire, Gem... and Some Guy - Cant remember his name |
Star Gazing
Following Monday, I was exhausted from not having a great day… and gemma had a very very long day FULL of classes (9am-7pm, with minimal breaks). Gemma is my Hero because she was able to make dessert out of nothing… well just about. Golden dumplings were created with the ingredience from our rather bare cupboards. They were very good. We decided to do something a little crazy to make up for today. Gemma and I rugged up, grabbed our sleeping bags and a Bottle of wine and headed for the open grass patch just down the way from us. Star gazing, drinking and singing along to gamma’s itunes was so much fun! By 11 we we’re merry and so we went to bed… but not before uploading those photos to facebook! J
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