Josh's Travel Days: School days! Orientation, classes, assignments, meetings...!

It's the first day of our school so orientation day was held to give a general briefing about our summer programme in Sheffield Hallam University. The lecture hall is filled with international students (some of them from India and China) from various courses.

Selfie before the briefing started!

How study life looks like in UK? It's actually nothing much different, except that we prepare our lunch in the morning, and had it on the beautiful grass near the university under the sunshine! Haha... Sounds enjoyable isn't it? No it's not! Imagine your lunch is ice cold and doesn't taste like how it should be, that's bloody awful! Ewww... But hey, that's how poor students like us survive in Sheffield alright? Of course, sometimes we're still eating out to pamper ourselves a little! =)

Sitting on the grass is a must when you're in western country! Lol

My little lunch box with fried Maggie inside.. Yum!

The study culture is different from what we used to have back in Malaysia, in UK, instead of spoon-feeding, they encourage us to get the answers by doing some researches and understanding. So, when we were doing our assignments, we have to find out our answers through Student's Best Friend - Google! I can say it's quite stress and frustrating when we were doing our assignments, but yea, you will be very satisfied with the effort you put in! I can only say, what you get is based on how much you did.


My engineering drawing for the car suspension system. (It's manual drawings!)

Being a course representative, I had to attend meetings organized by the Student Union, the main purpose of the meeting is to get feedback from students and convey them to the university lecturers and staffs. I remembered the first meeting was an internal meeting with our course leader to talk about our comments on the current course structure, schedule and also lecturers. The second meeting, where all the course representatives from all the courses gathered here together to talk about all types of issues, from accommodation, courses, facilities and etc. The second meeting is very interesting as you get to meet all the course rep. and also involved in some debating. Conclusion, the meeting session was quite fun! haha...