The first awesome thing about yesterdays orientation info-presentations was the waiting music that played before the event, Ievan Polkka by Hatsune Miku 😀
Aside from this funny intro music, the orientation and general information presentations were great! It was so interesting and entertaining to learn about all the different clubs and activities you can take part in at this uni! For Instance, we have the Malaysias largest Gym with over 16,000sqft of training space, together with a boxing ring, tennis-, soccer-, basketball-, and other courts and so much more! And that’s just the Sports section of our University, we also have Speech-clubs, a huge career center and many more organizations you can be involved in. We even have an esports club 😀
I’m thinking of joining the Muay Thai club and maybe the chess club, but only if the meetings are in person, which the presentators assured should be the case in a couple of weeks!
We also had breakout sessions in smaller rooms, where we played some icebreaker games to get to know each other better! I’m normally very stressed at such events and the first exercise was to say our name, where we’re from, which course we’re studying and a fun fact about ourself. I hate that “game” I get so stressed thinking about a fact that is also fun to know about me, I don’t know what’s funny about my personality!
But nevertheless I’m of course not the only one with that problem and everyone said just some kinda interesting fact about themself which obviously was totally weird for everyone.
But the other games we played were pretty fun, even with the weird quiet situations in online meetings where nobody is talking and everybody is waiting that somebody is making a move^^ Still a fun time 😀
The people organizing this also created a space on a website called padlet.com. They created an “Ice Breaking Padlet” where everybody could post short descriptions of themself to make getting to know each other easier. I found that a great idea! I of course took a bit of effort to write a post a description of myself there, but eventually I did it! And I think it’s a great idea to make it easier, especially at times where randomly meeting at a lecture isn’t possible. I’m really looking forward meeting people that way while I’m in quarantine and have no option to meet people in public 🙂
