Clubs Day

Left to right : Hongkai, Wilson, Me, at the Singapore Club booth

Mediaeval Society Booth

The Amber Card (Drinking Tui has its privileges), Dries Up: Feb 2008

28 th of February and 1st of March are Clubs' Days, the equivalent of CCA fair where CCAs set up their booths to get freshies to join them. The difference between joining clubs/societies in UC and NUS is that UC charges exorbitant membership fees although they do include t-shirts and free bbqs. For example, ensoc membership cost NZ$25 and singapore club membership cost NZ$20. UC has interesting clubs/societies such as Curry Society, Ninja Society, Mediaeval Club, Gentlemen's Club, Wine Club, just to name a few.

Pictures from the tallest building in Christchurch...formerly

Discussion Room on 11th Level

Ilam Field in the distance...the field is about the size of 10 or 11 football fields

The short squarish building at the left are the science lecture theatres.

The square or quadrangle in front of the library and registry

The short arc building holds the central lecture theatres.

A little history about the university of canterbury library. It was formerly the tallest building in christchurch up till a few years ago. Standing at 11 storeys, one can see far into the horizon, since the canterbury plains are flat. The pictures are taken at 8pm just before the sun sets.

It has been a full day of lectures on tuesday and wednesday and the weather was a chilly 15 degrees (excluding wind chill). An interesting observation is students are punctual. When the lectures are set at 8 am, the lecture theatre is full at 8am. For my ANTA 102: The Cold Continent module, I was in the unenviable position of turning up at 8.03 am and everyone was staring at me, much to my embarassment.

The same day, in my other lecture(pavement engineering) from 12 pm to 1pm, one student turned up 5 minutes late. To my surprise, he apologised to the professor after the lecture.

Lesson learnt.

First Day of School

The most interesting thing that happened today.... the course information provided by lecturer.

Today was the first day of school. There wasn't much to do. This was roughly how it went

10 am to 11 am Environmental Engineering 2
12 pm to 1 pm Lunch
1 pm to 2 pm Pavement Engineering
4pm to 5 pm Te Ahi Ka : Introducing Traditional Maori Society
5 pm to 5.15pm Visited 11th storey of Central Library for aerial view of surroundings
5.30pm to 6.30pm Dinner + Talk by UCSA/health centre/rec centre/lifeskills centre

Initially I wanted to buy the course readers but the queues were ridiculously long. Looks like I will have to get it another time.

I would say based on today's first introductory lecture, environmental engineering 2 and Maori module are interesting whereas for pavement engineering, I just hope it gets better as the days go by.

Sunday Out in Christchurch (25 Feb)

Left to Right : Me, HongKai, Veron at Cathedral Square

At a signpost

Hongkai and Veron on the tram

Outside the tram

Hongkai and Veron excited to see a sea gull

You Won't Believe It

Before: Formal Dinner after chapel service, 6.30pm (22 Feb)

After: Toga Party 8.30pm (22 Feb)

It Rained The Whole Day

From left to right : Me, Veron, Hongkai, Liling, Liling's uncle

On friday 23 February, Liling's uncle brought us to the canterbury musuem. Unfortunately, the rain was a dampener and we didn't take much photos.

University of Canterbury

School of Engineering

Map of University

Registration

Students Association

Christchurch Rochester & Rutherford Hall

The Bend in the Road

And together we stand at life's crossroads
And view what we think is the end,
But God has a much bigger vision
And He tells us it's only a bend.

For the road goes on and is smoother,
And the pause in the song is a rest.
And the part that's unsung and unfinished
Is the sweetest and richest and best

So rest and relax and grow stronger.
Let go and let God share your load,
Your work is not finished or ended,
You've just come to a bend in the road.
------- Helen Steiner Rice