They said they don't coddle...

So I apologize about not posting yesterday but I was just out of it from sitting in hot rooms for three hours for orientation. We received our Westminster ID's, which I am very thankful for, but everything else seemed like overkill. All the information they gave thus could've been neatly wrapped up in an e-mail to us instead of wasting all the paper they did.

The Study Abroad and Education (SAE) coordinator kept telling the group, when we were talking about classes, that in Britain they don't coddle their students and that we have to think for ourselves and do things for ourselves. Reading assignments aren't clearly given, we aren't reminded of turn in dates, or anything along those lines. I don't mind not being reminded about turn-in dates, that's what a syllabus is for but if further reading besides the ones on the syllabus aren't clearly given then how am I supposed to learn? I know I'm supposed to figure things out for myself but right now I'm thinking this is just setting people up to fall on their faces.

And after repeatedly being told we weren't going to be coddled, groups were forced together to do a Scavenger hunt. Seriously? A lot of people don't like forced group situations, it isn't fun because you're not meeting people on your own terms. I understand this pushes us out of our comfort zone to get to know people we wouldn't normally get to know but honestly I would prefer to go up to someone and talk to them about stuff when it is on my own time and not some one else's prerogative.

After all that nonsense, Nekol, Ashley from Green Bay, and I went shopping at M&S to find cheap gathering of plates and to buy food. Shopping was easy enough but carrying the bags back to Bond St station from the store and then from Lambeth North was not fun. Today I'm walking to Sainsbury's to try and see if the little over a mile walk would be much easier on us.

Later today we're heading to Regent Campus to check out the bookstore and library before tonight when we are going to try and get rush tickets to La Cage Aux Folles. I am more than excited about this because John Barrowman is in it! Yay!

Sorry for being a debbie downer, I'm hoping to have a better post later tonight!

<3,
Dre