Last time I was at the other end of the classroom, it was morning classes of my last semester of BIM and I was sleeping it off most of the classes. Oh ! how I loved my sleep back then. After more than 3 years, two years of life at the front end of the class, I am back to my student life again. I know I missed my college days but didnt realize unitl now, how much fun I was missing? And this time, the excitement and fun of studying just jumped exponentially as I am here and this time its real, I am studying at University again (i.e. Kathmandu University being my first); I am at La Trobe and I am an international student here.
For the past one month, I was dreaming on to be here and attending classes in whole new place, whole new environment and was looking forward to even newer education system. Most of things we imagine about the international university is true when it comes to La Trobe. Its huge; and its not just our definition of huge, its really really big uni out there. Many students from all end of the world but I havent met another Nepali till date though I am sure they are there. Big sports faciities and amazing surroundings with lakes, green fields all around. The look and feel of La Trobe as we say in Java is really eye-pleasing, meeting all my expectations.
And here begins the fun stories, about teachers. When I recall my teaching days, I must have been in many fun stories of my students as well, wasn't I fellas? Over here the fun part is the origin of the lecturers and their accents. Every second person moving around in La Trobe are from different origin with different accent. But imagine of learning a hashing function from a Korean who has koreanglish accent. Its double job when you have to first decrypt their spoken language and then extracting the meaning out of it. The difficulty level goes up for me when I cant stop smiling listening to the accent in the first place.
With only three classdays in a week, I dont have hectic schedule as any Masters student has goes through back home. The new education system here has all new experience waiting for me. In my very first week, I had to 5 hrs gap in between two classes. Damn!!! Back home in Nepal we would finish whole classday inside 5hrs. Those five long hours was when I explored La Trobe.
With few friends from different countries, running faster to catch up the time, I am expecting more memorable days ahead. Will keep my experience posted... Stay tuned...