My First Official Day of Glasgow Caledonian
Posted on September 18th, 2007 by Admin in the Personal section
What a great day! Today I finally started the course i’ve been waiting to do for nearly five months now! After reading the 2007 GCU perspectus, I knew this was the course for me and couldn’t wait to get started. I think personally I have worked hard to get to were I am just now and I am really proud of myself 
Anyways, luckily I’d been at the university for five weeks, walking around and getting a taste of it before anyone else due to me being at summerschool, so I knew my way about. I got the timetable through the post and wasn’t to sure were my classroom was so this morning I went to the office and before I got to ask my mate Jimmy who I found out that was doing the same course as me tapped my shoulder. He knew were it was so we went down to the lower ground to the room and there was no-one outside our room only to find that everyone had already taken their seats, oops! But we weren’t the last, alot of folk were turning up late due to it being the first day.
So we got settled and we got a chat for about an hour talking about the course and the university which was quite interesting. We then got a sheet that had all our specific materials that we needed to buy, unfortunately my letters haven’t been confirmed by SAAS yet (Student Bursary, Loans etc) so I don’t have any money in the bank at the moment to get them. A positive from it though is that my course is one of the cheapest in the sense of material buying. Diane Joyce the programme leader/tutor told us that courses like Pharmacy & Nursing are the more expensive as they need to buy alot of books whereas we only have to buy pens, rulers, paints etc which works out cheaper! PLUS YOU GET A STUDENT DISCOUNT ;)!
After lunch we were given our first activity to do. The activity was basically to get to know each other a bit better, but the main task was to go out around the city of Glasgow and get some pictures taken. In my group I had a guy named Kieron and another dude called Alan, both really nice guys.
You can visit the Flickr page in which I uploaded the photos to here, you can also look at some of the other groups photos. So what was the point in the task? Well Diane is goin to look at all of the photos taken by the groups and she is going to pick the best 100 and get them printed 10×10 and put on the wall. She is also going to get little MOO cards made which will also be quite fun!
So overall, first day of my official class has been amazing. Met some new people, the girls in my class are also tremendous may I add and the tutors seem really nice. It can only get better. So thats all for now, thanks for reading EatFruitPlease, until next time…