After all these orientation activities and welcome parties finally the true university life began. During the last three days I had my first classes and my first impression is pretty good.
I'm taking four classes at TRU: The Tourism Industy, Human Resources Management, Organizational Leadership and Environmental Issues of the Tourism Industry.
So far I can't really say anything about the content of the classes as we just talked about assignments and the stucture of the class and other organizational things. Anyways, the classes seemed really interesting. We are small groups, from 16 to 40 people which is nice as you are more involved in the lecture and don't just sit and listen. Something that's different from my home university is that we have to do a lot of assignments. Each course requires at least 3 assignments and a midterm additional to the final exam. So I will have to work a lot more than I did at home. But the assigments also seem interesting and we have to be pretty creative. For one class, as an example, we have to create a video and a blog, in another class we have to collect travel pictures of ourselves. So, as you can see, it's not hard work, only time consuming.
Today we had a huge Back to School-BBQ organized by the student union. That meant a lot of free stuff, hamburgers and live music. (And some chilling, for a change.)
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