A new start, a new hope

I have been dreading going to school again for the past week. spells the start of a whole semester of more torture. from the way it seems and should be, each preceding semester should only get harder. i just set my mind to go through with it anyway, hoping the expereince from past sem would have toughened me to tide through this sem without feeling so much torment.


today is the start of a whole new semester, and the first time going to school for lessons proper from springdale. and it turned out to be such an interesting day! not because very amusing events happened today, but because of new changes introduced, giving me glimpse of hope for a better semester and times ahead.


First of all, i didnt expect the results to be out so soon and to come at that time. just at the first lesson of the semester, the lecturer flashed the posting results.... I AM ACCEPTED TO DISNEY WORLD!!! yeahheh! i actually expected to anyway. and true enough they were so not stringent with recruitment criteria - everyone who applied from my cohort got accepted =.='

quite disappointing though was the position i was posted to - F&B. a lot of us didnt get our first or second choice either. i guess they put me there because of experience and since i indirectly consented also. but oh well, another opportunity to continue from where i left off. i now have a year to change my mind, if any dire need arise.


There was also another surprise... we now have a new classmate. a refreshing change to the class and its formations i known for the past 1.5 years. he brings hope of shaking the social formations and situations that have developed among the class, which has not been in my favour. well today when he came to join the class, everyone were already so stuck up in their own cliques and did not even make the effort to make this new guy welcome. only 1 or 2 others. so i was the first to start talking to him. he didnt give me a good first impression, but as i continued to talk i found he is actually a decent soul; a welcome edition to the class, especially for me. he did not transfer into the course halfway, but belonged to the pioneer batch and was just continuing after a year of deferment.


then came the first tutorial, which was also the last lesson for the day. and we were required to form groups already. and it seems that 3/4 of the class were all having conflicts within their project groups and strongly objected to staying in the previous sem groups. the new guy told me about all his group problems in his previous class. glad to know that its not just my group, and not just me. So we decided there was urgent need to form new arranged groups such that everyone will have a balance of happiness with the groupings.


so i end up in a group with 2 ppl i can relate to, 1 i am happy working with, but 2 who are known to be slackers or unable to produce quality work. they worry us, but i still think havign those 2 are better than having the other 2 in my last sem group, who are unreasonable, volatile and having attitude problems leading to soured relations between us. and i would rather enjoy my work and get slightly lower project grades because of them, then to put up with hostile group members.

i now have reason to believe things will get better this semester. Thanks be to God.