Orientation/ Induction Week

I came to manchester/preston with an empty cup, hoping to fill in with information and resources... I wouldnt say i enjoyed a lot so far coz their orientation was boring... super boring....
Maybe i should start on with the comment thing first...
First of all.... weather... it wasnt very cold yet as now is till consider as summer although autumn is coming up... But the worst thing is--> it rains very day.... My shoes and pants get wet... i even got splash when a bus pass-by because i was walking to close to the road...
Next next...Classes/ Meetings/Breifings...
of course, i believe all students, regardless what uni you in, u would hv to meet the dean frist.. we, the direct entry student was asked to go for a briefing on the day before we met the dean as they would brief us on the medical schools and departments, the medical school student reps in MANCHESTER... but it wasnt really applicable for me as i m not going to stay in manchester as my base is in PRESTON which is another city further away from manchester. if u take train, it will take u 45min for a trip... but i am happy to find out that preston is one of the stop for the train to glascow and edinburgh... as i hv friends there....
and the second day for us, the direct entry students, aftyer meeting the dean and listening to their speech, we went to the stduent service centre for registration. i was lucky that i was sponsored by the government and everything went so smoothly without any trouble at all, which means i do not need to come to manchester another day to sort it out... i got my swipe card on the day itself and i can now proud to introduce myself as STUDENT OF UNI OF MANCHESTER!!!
and here the third day came, we were giving briefing on Royal Preston Hospital which is the base of our hospital... and also some of the staffs and most imporatantly, they briefed us on the ICL (Intro to Clinical Learning) which is an induction course the last for three weeks, before we go into clinical settings...
then here came the first weekend for my second visit to UK... i planned to visit my uncle and to collect my stuff as i left a lot of stuff at his palce in my first visit. and because of that i missed a super huge dinner with the seniors on sat night. there were 80seniors from Y4, Y5, FP1 nad FP2 and also my batch mates, the Y3 students... and that was the saddest experience i had ever had in travelling in UK.... the journey from manch to cardiff is only 3hr. i departed at 2.30pm but eventually i reached my uncle's house at 8.30pm..... what a terrible trip!!! the train was moving slowly... and it terminated at hereford and i was told that the railway was flooded and the train couldnt move over... so i was "invited" to take the bus to newport and myuncle picked me up from newport train station.....
and this week is my second week.... also boring week as it's an oreintation week for the preston students...
looking forward to see what's going to happen this week. ha!!