Orientation @ alumi

hello hello----- am back onto it. Well, shall give you an overview of what is happening in my life for the last 3 days.

I had had a pretty rough 3 days helping out in the orientation of my alumi with today being the worse of the three. I realise something; the more you think that the last day things will be easier and that all will be smoother in terms of the running of the events but it is just the exact opposite. I had got the worse nightmare in the aspect of my 3 years of doing orientation.

Day 1 (wednesday)

Start of the orientation- tested all the equipments necessary for use- perfect all in good shape- 1 hours down the event, the dvd player sound system decided to go into coma- so had to just use human voice with powerpoint slide- then just merely half an hour later the ppt slide disappear (for whatever reason, god knows)- now all the speakers for the rest of the sessions had to use nothing but their voice to try to make the new students feel welcum on one hand & provide the necessary information to be given to them- in the end, we have to get IT support to come in and fix in as we move onto the next group in the other room. After all the hours and fixing as we go on running yet the next group of orientation, all was well. What else can go wrong- just as i ponder, the academic director walks in and then i realise what is just about to go wrong- the ppt slide loaded on the USB for her was not the right one- she was indeed not at all pleased. NOthing else when wrong for that day- it was enough of badness in that one day. Of course, not forgetting having to have to deal with some really troublesome students along the way but it was alright.

Day 2 (thursday)

Had the largest number of enrolment- like 5 groups of 120 students. I was completely exshauted after that day- My legs were about to give way. The only one big thing that when wrong was both the computers in the rooms failed to work and we have to move 120 students for each and every session to another room and having to make quite a number of mentors work extra hard in terms of being a 'cleaner' for that spear of 15 minutes (i guess i literally exploited them) but can't help it. That's a hell job to do and having to run from one end to the other end to get the speakers for the various section of the orientation to be on time. The time was so limited and yet the people are just not being on time. Anyhow, it was that one major room that failed on me that i had had so much more extra work and explanation to do to the new students who have no clue why we asre moving them every so often. I feel so sorry for them, for the fact that i have some of them who had just touched that that very same day and they must be feeling so lost and tired. My heartfelt apology goes out to them.

Day 3 (Firday- today)

Crazy time!!!!!!!!!!! Very certain & no doubts at all. Room move again as the unwell lectun once again goes into hospitalization even though it was resuscitated for the last 2 days- Insufficient mentors for the late orientation- new student emergency (felt sick; like seriously so sick that we had to take him to the medical centre)- really really blur mentors who have no clue what he is doing at all- anxious & grumpy parents- very irritated freshers who are not able to withstand the time needed to wait for their paper work to be done- crying babies (well, here i mean that having to have new students who is like 21 years old crying just because she can't get the time table ideal to her plan; she was crying her lungs out i am sure) - my supervisor who i was assisting had to leave suddenly due to an urgent matter so i had to be the one taking charge of the orientation and make sure the new students get the information and settles in. It is madness, i have never like really never try to run an orientation on the spot with no training to it and having 70 kids on my hand to make sure all is going to fall in place.

Oh well, now that all is over, i am so relief. I must say that i had had the chance to meet some really cool personnel from the various sectors and it had been fun having to work with them even though there was times that things are just so stressful that i get cranky on students and others. All in all i had all things in control other than the final bit this evening that i break down. I guess the last 2 days and this morning did wear me out quite a bit so i just had to let it out this evening (it was also partly cause by a particular student shall not name who here but he/she knows it i am pretty sure)

Yep... a long update for the last 3 days. The weekend will be busy but will be exciting i am sure. haha... will post on them as time goes by.

Bye for now