Hey, everyone! This is Rose again. I am in a study break for exams now – I have four exams, I feel quite stressed! I will never choose four again because it is so stressful, hopefully I will do fine. As promised before, I will write about my study life in this entry. By the way, thanks for the comments from my friends for the first entry. I love you guys, haha! In addition, the information I wrote here is just my own experience and my own opinion, feel free to express your opinion if it is not the same as I wrote here because I love to hear different opinions because everybody is different. In addition, do check again if you wanna to do those programmes because sometimes they change the courses they offer. That’s the aspect I do not like about the uni here – it is always changing!

I did all my education before high school in a government school in China, but my parents were pretty wise to send me to an international school for high school because they knew that I could not bear the pressure from the university entrance exam in China! Anyway, that’s the reason I am in New Zealand now, because my high school has a connection with Victoria University in Wellington. Anyway, because I went to an international school, my English level is better than other Chinese students. (By the way, thanks for all my teachers in that international school, you are so awesome and give me lots of confidence!)

Then I went to a Foundation programme here when I first came because it would help me prepare for university. I chose some courses there, I think I chose six in total (I can not remember the exact number now, haha, that’s another aspect of me – I can not remember lots of stuff, but I can remember the important ones though.)

I think there is one called academic writing that I chose. It was quite boring, but quite helpful as well because it teaches you how to write uni essays. I learned a little bit of that in international school as well. I hate referencing, I know it is quite important, but I found it takes me so much time to do it! There is a software called EndNote that can help me to do it – I installed, but never used it though, haha! There is another highly recommended course in that programme that teaches you how to do a library search, I took that one as well, was quite helpful. I did not take economics because I was never interested in economics! I remember I wanted to take physics and chemistry, but because there are not so many people choosing them, they canceled those classes which was a shame. I think the other ones I did take were maths, information systems, New Zealand history, New Zealand literature and computer technology.

I enjoyed that programme because the teachers there were so awesome and helpful and supportive. I met lots of new friends from different nations there and they are like a family to me, haha! It is a shame because we do not keep in touch often nowadays though because we are doing different majors and some of them are in different countries to me now, but I will always miss them though. I think that’s another aspect of why I like it here, because you can meet lots of people from different nations. I love the diverse culture here.

I guess I will stop there for now and I am gonna to continue writing about my study life here in my next entry. Once again, if you have any comments and questions, feel free to ask or comment! I love to hear from your guys! All the best to you all!