First Week of Class

Well believe it or not I am here to study abroad, so after an exciting and exhausting o-week we started our classes last Monday. I am enrolled in 4 classes here and only attend classes Monday, Tuesday and Thursday each week.

Tourism Policy- seems to be an easy enough class. First day of class our lecturer decided to point out the "privilege" of having 3 american students in the class and directed all attention towards us at the back of the room... awkward.

Business Finance- Nothing can be as bad as finance at K-state so I'm just relieved to be taking it elsewhere. My teacher is very hard to understand and 3 straight hours of finance is never fun, soo we'll see how this one goes. Oh, and my class is 85% asian... English is not the dominant language in this class.

Intro to Marketing- Big lecture in a typical 1st year unit... no worries.

Organisational Performance- And yes I did spell that correctly. A lot of their words swap out the "z" for an "s". It still catches me off guard. I'm still not entirely sure what this class is even about, but it's my only class with an Australian professor.

The classes are pretty similar to ones at K-state. The only main difference is how they are scheduled. You only attend lecture once a week, usually for 2 hours, and then you have a tutorial or workshop for 1 hour once a week. It's hard to pay attention to one subject for that long, but it's nice to only be in class 3 days a week versus 5. Their course work is more independent and spread out. There is no busy work or stupid online quizzes, which I am very happy with. Instead you are given all your assignments at the beginning of the semester with due dates and instructions, most of them being long essays or projects. Most of my classes only have one exam, the final exam, worth about 50% of our grade... no pressure there. However, I only need to pass the classes (50% overall) to get the credit back at K-state so I'm trying not to stress too much.

My first week of classes here went pretty smoothly with no major problems. Now I'm just trying to get back into school mode after being on break for so long.