My First Day of School

Rollcall- A very interesting fact, more than 95% of my class is from Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and Nigeria! So can you imagine, I was immersed in a sea of black during class today! There were 3 other Chinese, and not a single Swedish in class.

Dun get it wrong, I’m not being racist here, but I was really amused and grinning throughout rollcall coz it was totally unexpected. Plus for the fact that I was the only 1 of the 2 gals in class (the other was a Chinese gal with her 2 Chinese frens), I was alittle petrified and kept wundering how I am going to get through the whole course alone.

I found out later that its not just my class, but the entire community here at BTH (my school) was mainly made up of the above races, because Swedish do not usually pursue a higher education after high school, wow.

But after getting to talk to some of them from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nigeria today, I think my whole perspective has changed quite abit. I was quite relieved that I did not have to explain that Singapore is not part of China, although it was quite irritating that they assumed that I was from China at first. They were all very helpful, and helped me to settle some of the admin stuff (the Swedish admin here is really cannot-make-it), and because they have a very strong community here, they get a lot of lobangs from seniors. One of the China guys came over to say hi to me as well, did not have a chance to talk to them much, but do hope I can get to know them more.

Some of the things I learnt from them, Bangladesh usually pursue their studies in Sweden, Italy and Germany; Nigeria is also like S’pore, only 1 season throughout; the Pakistan and Indians are very kiasu, u know one of them shared that he was going to start studying for one of our modules tomorrow (where classes only start next week), and he was already planning the self-study classes that we can do for summer term. Asked me if I wana join in the studying since there’re no classes tomorrow…Huh, freaked out.

Started my signal processing lecture today. Not too bad, coz today was just a quick review of the course and some recap of the basic theories, like Fourier transform, filters, functions which I’m sure I’ve learnt before, at least I recognize the terms, haha! The lecturer was good, he was very clear and neat in his presentations. Plus the fact that he was pretty good-looking, haha, made the module a lot less intimidating!

Anyway, here’s some pictures of my school, really like the school environment….

All the corridors look like this, its a study area as well

This is a school cafe .. beautiful right...