Ok I haz a shit load of uni work. And somehow after being absolutely inactive online for ages, I decide that I want to blog and update my Fb status a million times. I think its because I've actually switched my brain on and started thinking about things instead of the very inactive state of mind I've been in the last 8 months...
So three weeks of uni have gone by and I'm not sure what to make of it. I find that most of the Asian students in lecture halls are all in clusters. Of course you know about the Asian Clusters (thats what I call it). We tend to gather in groups based on where we're from and then from that large group we disperse to lectures in pairs of trios.
Sadly, I'm not in any Asian Clusters at RMIT so far... To be honest they intimidate me. Its like there's this gang of people who've all made friends with each other and I'm like such an outsider (this is so deja vu I feel like I've typed this out here before). So what I've put my mind to doing this semester is talk to Caucasians. Though I tend to target talking to people who are by themselves... Its a hit and miss kinda thing though, a lot of the people I've tried to talk to or sat with respond enough to be polite but they don't actually want to see you again or sit with you again.
I don't know what compelled me to do what I did but there was one lecture where everyone was waiting in the foyer for the earlier lecture to finish and I just walked across the foyer to the courtyard outside, up to a guy just standing there and started talking to him. Granted it was easy to start a conversation cos he was using a crutch so there's a bloody easy conversation starter. But yeah, afterwards I couldn't stop asking myself why I just looked at him and decided to go talk to him. Amazingly enough he's in first year but only turning 18! I am so old at that uni...
Oh yes btw I've jumped from Monash over to RMIT =) Many many people are surprised and amazed to find out I made that transition in silent mode.
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