It's the post orientation post
By the time you read this, I am back in classes.
Fun. Kinda. Ish.
So orientation came and orientation went (with no flu from Melbourne and nothing sore). And fun was had by all. And I know I'm not supposed to start sentences with an "And" but there you go.
And campus tour numbers were way down on last year. Where were all you people needing to find your way around?!
Like some things in life, a lot of what you put into effort during orientation you get back. I got to help loads of people with all sorts of things and it's good to know that you are able to assist people just a little more in an environment that they are not familiar in. Not so much a warm and mushy hug kinda help, more of a little drum roll of satisfaction (with occasional staccato beats). Well maybe a few hugs.
I had a long dayed, but satisfying couple of weeks. I got to show off my exemplary crowd control skills (honed over summer employment), devised and helped refine a new system for getting people into the official welcomes, made sure a whole lot of first year Nursing students found their way around and met a diverse group of really great people.
I've already made some suggestions for an even simpler to understand and more awesomely fun next couple of orientations, so hopefully there will be news on that in the months ahead. I will let you know of any future orientation developments as they come to hand.
Changing topics sideways, can I take a moment to welcome to all the new first year primary education students at KG.
Welcome.
You may have the honour of being one of the few intakes of students to get to experience your UTS over both campuses (they really are such different places). And you are the last intake of Faculty of Education students, before we become a great big extended family with our cousins over in Humanities and Social Sciences, and International Studies. Much more on all these things later.
I have a busy semester, perhaps the most hectic of my course. More on this next time.
ps. for those KG regulars, you may have noticed the green carpet on the entrance floor of level 5, was cleaned over the summer. You were kinda right. It is a bit springier and a bit glarier in the green department - it was re-laid. And yes, you may ask yourself, why the green, again? Something to do with the heritage of the building and it had to be. Take that paisley looking mottled carpet and fake Italian tiles!
