Okay I know that I have not posted regularly.
The days are packed. Breakfast is at seven in the AM, we have post dinner session that end 20:30 to 21:00.
SI is organised into 4 sections: External, academic and institutional environment, with personal development following through all of them. Next week we will be spending a lot of time with personnel development excercises. It is also a hectic week, but we will not be spending a lot of time in sessions in the auditorium. We will be in different parallel session all over campus which will no doubt result in confusion.
BM is as I have already set, picture perfect. It is also perfect because the main Library is set in the middle of the campus. Just as it should be. There is also a student caf. in the library called the "Lusty cup" We met with FG, associate CIO and director of the library, and graduate of BMSI today, and yesterday we had a presentation by NA, who is at DU, and she gave a very interesting and gripping presentation, but as always the rest of HE does just not always get librarians, or all of it.
Dorm life is interesting. In me previous student life I commuted, so this is very different. The rooms are located in clusters of 3 in the corners of the building. We share bathroom - yes it has more than one toilet and showers -2 but one bath. All the dorms in H have a lounge with TV and piano. It also has a little kitchen area. It also has an ironing board which is in a linen cupboard on the second floor. I am on the first floor, hence creased clothing to class. My window looks out to the street which is partly concealed by a tree in which mossie-like birds chirp early in the morning. Both tree and bird unknown names at the moment. In the early evening there are fire-flies to be seen fying across the green lawns here. Enchanting.
Some peculiarities of this place, the number of the rooms increase from right to left, so if you come from the middle-east you would fit right in. The names on our post boxes is above the box and not below, as one would expect.
Today is a uncharacteristically wet and cold day in the middle of the PA summer. We are apparently catching the tale end of hurricane Cindy.
I have learnt from others here that the first week of BMSI is notoriously difficult, focussing on the ee. The second week started with group work in the morning. They actually want you to think first thing in the morning! This of course is just plain outrageous for the owl that I am.
Interestingly, the owl is on all the buildings here, and is used as BM logo. I feel at home for that reason.
I hope to post more meatier things soon. I really need to, in order to process.
