For the new freshies.

Hel- lowww….. people! This here is just to break my wordpress blog post cherry. 1st year’s out and i can’t help feeling rather excited for the next troop of Singapore meddies coming in to Monash. So for a lack of anything else to write about, I thought i’d do some minor advertising for some of the things the new year 1’s can look forward to for the coming year.

• Before even leaving the country, as always, Monash will host a Pre-Departure Briefing in the ballroom of some fancy hotel. Don’t miss it! The Singapore Assocation of Monash (SAM) will be there to greet you, and some busy-body extras like me will likely be there too just to get in on the excitement. Oh don’t get me wrong. When people told you the Pre-Departure Briefing was boring, they really weren’t lying. But thats only the briefing per se — you wanna be there to meet us, your fantastic monash meddie seniors. We’ll have name tags so Look out for us! Cos we won’t know what you look like. Hell, if we did, we’d grab you right at the door, lasso and all. *um. Silence.* Come look for us.

• When you come to Aussie land, one of the first few activities you will have are your Halls / College orientations. My advice — ditch the Uni activities unless it’s really so super important. It’s important to hit it off with the people who will be staying around you. And they are generally nice. Maybe just as shy as you, but Aussies are people too, so don’t hesitate to make friends with them. No seriously they are good people.

• Then just before school starts, you will spend a “Transition Weekend” at Phillip Island. 2nd year meddies will be acting as your “Guidance Councillors” (basically like OGLs), and you priveleged wankers will have not one, not two, but three Singaporean seniors there with you on your weekend. Yessirree. That would be Me (Patricia), Jeffrey, and Nathaniel, who will be 4th year. Don’t ask me what he’s doing there, he’s just there to make a ruckuss really. :p (Kidding Nat! Kidding!)

• When uni does start proper, you will find that there are not too many Singaporean meddies staying in halls with you. That’s because quite a number of them have decided to move into houses around campus. AND SO, you are cordially invited to the housewarming parties. This plan is at the moment still at the conceptualising stage, and consent has not yet been obtained, i will be honest. But that doesn’t mean we can’t get excited about it. If i’m not wrong there will be 4 houses in total. The plan is for one weekend one housewarming. Be there or be square. Don’t make us bring out our lassoes again.

• Much much much later in the year, there is an annual event that EVERYONE goes to. This is in second semester, but i thought i’d just inform you guys all the same. It’s the med ball, and this year almost all of the Singaporeans went, and we had a blast. If you like figurative blasts, come along next year.

Well that’s all i have to say for now. I have to get round to packing up my room and putting things in storage for the Summer. Ta.