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.