Back 2 school

It´s Sunday and I´ve got the first week of lectures and tutorials behind. I don´t think I´ve linked my university here yet, so if you´re interested in finding out more about it go to www.uts.edu.au There´re so many international students here! 30% of business students don´t speak English as their first language and some of the lecturers aren´t native speakers, either. It´s going to be interesting working with people coming from so many different countries - just like it´s going to be in the real working environment, as well. So far I´m grouped mostly with Australians for team projects, though, which I think is fine. At the moment I´ve got a good feeling about all of my subjects. It´s going to be a lot more reading than I´m used to, though. I even bought my course books from the student association´s second hand bookstore. They´re pretty expensive (over $100 each) as new but I didn´t pay close to that much. So, we gotta read one or more chapters from the book and some additional articles for every lecture. I´ve also got individual and group assingments for all of my subjects.

I really like the library here! I just spent a couple of hours there today searching for references for my International Marketing case study. There´re heaps of books for marketing, including just any specific topics, and many databases for journals, too. I´ve got a feeling I´m going to improve my information searching skills during this year. There´s no way I can go through everything that looks promising! Besides, our cases and projects are limited to be quite a lot shorter than those at LUT, which means we gotta be more consice and really stick to the main points. My marketing case is due in a week and it counts 20% of the grade. I´ve done hardly any writing yet so I gotta spend a lot of time inside working on it this week, no matter how nice the weather is going to be :/

Besides going to lectures and tutorials I haven´t done much this past week. Just going to the beach, spending some time outside, watching movies, running and going to a few fitness classes. I had a consultation for my gym program on Thursday and the instructor used this informative scale to find out various kinds of things about me. For example, almost 43kg of me is muscle and 2,3kg bones, I´m 60% hydrated and I consume a bit over 1300KCal a day. I´ve got another meeting with him and that´s when he´s really gonna test me and make the workout program.