I’m getting bored of orientation very quickly. Each day we have basically the same schedule of various information assaults punctuated by meals. Today the University’s orientation program started, which repeats a lot of what we’ve already learned from ISEP. All foreign students studying here met in a lecture hall to be briefed by the heads of the university about a number of things. The first few were ok, but I slept entirely through the last speaker! I think she was talking about counseling, but I couldn’t tell you anything she said on the topic. The heat in the room and the snacks provided lulled us into an uneasy naptime while we waited to be dismissed. At the end of today’s orientation, there’s another tomorrow, we were finally given the course catalogue book for this semester so we can pick our classes. This will give me something to do during tomorrow’s lectures! Surely we’ll be told how important our malaria medication is at least one more time before classes start.
My patience is wearing very thin as I don’t even have my permanent room yet. They claim that some of the rooms aren’t ready to be moved into yet, so we’re being forced to stay in temporary rooms and live out of our suitcases. It isn’t very comfortable and I feel like I’m losing things! Hopefully we’ll get our real rooms tomorrow so we can unpack before more students get here this weekend.
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