It's 1 more day and I'm in UK for 3 weeks. All has been good so far, my housemates are really great people to live with. I don't have to deal with ppl having parties in halls or in house and stuff as I heard lots about other people's accommodation. So I'm really thankful about my accommodation and housemates.
Really thankful that my bank account is sorted out as well. Had some problems about bank account in my first week and was really stress about it. Thank God it's been set up and $$ is on the way, now I can pay my rent. Finding my way around is not really hard with a map on hand, but without the map every road is like every other road. As mention before the buses timings are something that I have to get use to. But busing is too expensive here so I walk to school, it's kind of my only form of exercise. I'm glad I've got my perm phone number up as well. My previous number is costing me too much money as it's mainly use for international calls. Culture shock has come and pass really quickly so I'm thankful about that as well.
I've made a few friends in my course and really thankful about that as everyone tends to just form into groups on the first day of school as they met each other the week in clubs before in freshers, so i was really glad i found some friends that I can click with. Although the difference in culture and the kind of shows and music we listen tends to be different in some ways and I find it hard to communicate sometimes but I guess these are the things I need to brush up on.
Lesson just officially started so there's lots of assignments and reading coming in. Still not sure how I feel about school but I guess it'll really be different from working and stuff. There will be lots of writing coming in as well and I'm having butterflies about it. But I guess I'll work it out as it goes. I know that I don't have much to complain about having 3 units a year, 2 units; similar units for 2 terms and 1 unit for the last term. But each unit weights 40 credits, so it's no joke.
Clubs and societies sign up are starting this week. I've drop my e-mail for quite a few and I not really sure which ones I'm going to really stay on. I've wanted to join the musical theatre group as tech and it seems like they just call us on when they have a production, it's good in a way that commitment level is only during the production. There is another theatre group that do mostly original plays and I'm thinking of signing up for that as well. I've drop my e-mail for street dancing, baking club and writers society as well. I would love to go for all and one of my aim was to learn dancing while I'm here. Baking club just sound fun and I love to bake. Writers society is for me to meet writers (for my project in future) and to learn how to write scripts which I think I need to start learning as well. So much to join but so little time. I've sign up for a school ambassador and going to sign up for the student development award and planning to sign up for the DofE award as well. I know I'm a little too ambitious at the moment but first year is like the only time I have to do all these stuff. Anyway I might drop the dance thing and learn it in my 2nd year. Not to mention that I hope to pick up another language as well. Too many things. I shall just see which ones fit into my schedule as I can't have the best of both worlds, most things seems to fall on wed and I can only choose to go for one. Come to think of that there's the Christian union meetings as well.
Mentioning about christian, my church search hasn't really started. I've only been to one church so far, it wasn't bad, teaching is fine so far, read the website it's biblical. The people I've met in the church area really friendly and there's a group of students as well. But the worship session of the church is really different back home, I feel a bit weird, maybe because I'm too use to the way of worship in church back home. Anyway I'll be going to another church this weekend and see how that goes. Will be attending the christian union meeting this wed evening as well. Praying for guidance and pray that I can find a church and settle down soon. I know if I don't settle this in the first two months I'll have the tenancy to stop going for church.
Well mentioning about church and Christianity I just had the most intriguing conversion with my housemates. As I mention that none of my housemates are christian, I just found out that one of them as he says is a soft atheist. Well I'm not really knowledgeable enough as to answer all his queries, his doubts and his point of view. He know lots of religion and just read them as interest. Also because he studies psychology and studies the psychology of religion. I wish I can put some of my thoughts into words and explain to him what I feel about his view point but I'm not really good at that yet. Especially to argue in english. When speaking to him, disong and xian jie came to my mind. I think if he talks to the 2 of them he might get a better picture. Well I guess that's a challenge God has given me. Also to tell me to read more. It is indeed not a road of all smooth sailing, but God's grace and strength will see me through.
Still God is really great and I might be getting a part-time job soon. Not really sure how much hours I need to work for the moment but through the conversion it sounds like roughly 14-16hrs a week. It's pretty alright actually cos it's an evening job. If I work just on fri and sat evening it'll be 13hrs and I can earn about 84.50. Doesn't cover my rent but it'll cover half my rent and most of my living expenses so it's not too bad. If I work more I'll just earn more. But anyway all is still to be confirm. It does seems that I have a lot going on in my life right now and I think I really have to give and take and give some things for my first year. Oh well, I'll just plan as things come my way, really hard to say currently.
Anyway time to sleep, till next time.
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