This is my first week of classes at university. I'm going to be a 'fresher'. If school taught me anything it was not to look like the new kid even if you are the new kid. I've seen so many things on Facebook lately on 'how to avoid looking like a fresher', they are absolutely hilarious and I, no joke, saw people doing all of these things on my first day. The top ones were: don't wear your senior jersey, don't ask embarrassing questions in lectures, don't ask to go to the bathroom in lectures, don't wear high heels and don't wear flip flops in the rain. All of these were done. Are people trying to grab others' attention?!? I'm embarrassed for them. Each night I will come to this and write a brief overview of what happened that day so each day will probably read in present tense - sorry :-/ Also, this is basically just me rambling about what happened each day, no filter, no editing, just me. Enjoy! 

Monday
The first day of real classes. I was one of the lucky ones, yes I did have a class and yes it was at 8am but it only went for an hour and that was my one and only class of the day. It was 'Studies in Language' which was basically an introduction to language and literary theory. I was all over it and thankfully didn't feel overwhelmed… English Extension prepared me well. The only thing, however, that was a little confronting and overwhelming was the amount of people in the lecture. There were about 300 students in one lecture hall (o.O). We had a reading todo prior to the lecture but it was a breeze, 23 pages on literary theory. I know, I know, I know, it's going to get so much harder. But, for my very first lecture I'm glad I knew what was being spoken about. 9am came around and while my friends had to stay and have other lectures/tutorials I got to go home :) Which, I ended up not doing and decided to go to Ikea. I've been putting it off for quite a while because I always get extremely lost or confused walking around because there is only one way and you can't just go in and out, you have to go through the entire store. Hell. Once I got home I watched two Harry Potter movies (this is the first time I've seen them so I am trying to watch them all by this weekend - going good so far). I ended the day with an extremely relaxing bath and I started reading the Trylle (by Amanda Hocking) trilogy. 

Tuesday
I began my day by going to the gym. I ran a bit, biked (if that's a word) a bit, used the TRX and mainly stayed in the cardio section. I am very intimidated by the weights, not only the weights themselves but the people who use them. They just look very strong. I had the entire morning off and didn't have university until 2pm. This whole not having to go to school from 8.30am-3pm is swell. After the gym a friend and I went to shopping for Toga party essentials. I was informed on my second day of O-Week that if a 'fresher' doesn't go to the Toga Party they are immediately rejected from any other social gatherings. So, with that peer pressure in mind I bought a ticket for the Toga Party on Thursday night... Despite having a lecture at 8am Friday morning. Today, once I did get to university, I was thrown in the deep end! Child and Adolescent Development and Learning went straight into the first module and we were given our first assignment... Naive Emma knew we would be getting assignments early, but first lecture EVER for that class was a little earlier than even I expected. It's basically a 35 minute lesson plan speech where you pretend as if your peers are students in your class. You must provide a lesson for them - including activities and worksheets. I know this doesn't seem too bad, but getting started for me will be the hardest part. Once I got home, I took one look at the criteria and task sheet and decided to bake cupcakes :-)  Yay for making adult life decisions! Sasha is coming to the Toga party with me on Thursday night and is staying at mine for the night - so I'll finally have a friend from home :) 

Wednesday
Today was a pretty good day, timetable wise. I had my TV & Film Text Analysis lecture and it was just so intriguing. It's not an education subject, it's a Bachelor of Film subject so there are only a small amount of English major education students in the 700 seat lecture hall. It's all the english nerds mixing with the artsy/indie/cool film students and it was actually quite funny to see. My lecturer is currently doing his PhD in Japanese Zombie Films so immediately had my attention :-) Tonight I went to a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream with a friend I met during O-Week. It was interesting, to say the least. Definitely not your typical Shakespeare but it was really cool!!!

Thursday
I had the entire morning off which was really good, no lecture until 3pm :-) 
It was an english class so it was extremely engrossing and super interesting. (I'm running out of descriptive words.) Basically, nothing happened today, I caught up on my book and the TV show GIRLS staring Lena Dunham. But apart from that, it was a very calm and relaxing day. An extremely needed day. 

Friday
I had my first official geography lecture/tutorial this morning. Hated it. It interested me at school and all but trying to get back into it and getting back to liking it is very difficult. The foundations of the subject are quite boring :-( After my class I had work, I cried the entire half an hour car trip to work and had to make myself appear somewhat presentable before having to face customers and colleagues. After work I came home, got dressed and went out to the markets that are about 15 minutes away from my house. It was good, I got to relax and enjoy the night and not have to think about university at all. Every stressful night must be relieved with a relaxing bubble bath and a book and that's exactly what I did. 

Saturday & Sunday 
I know the weekend isn't technically part of my first week of university but I thought I would share it with you since I had no idea of what was going to happen. Saturday was very chill; just hung out, grabbed lunch and went and saw the afternoon session of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel movie. When Sunday came along, I sat down to begin an assignment and felt completely unmotivated with it. It's a mixture of 'I've had so much time off and now sitting down and having to stay focused is very difficult' and 'I really don't think this is the right course for me anymore'. I know, I know, I know. This is what I wanted. Yes, I had this course in my mind as my goal for the past 2 years now but they were right. School was right. Once you start studying at university, it is very easy for it to not become your passion anymore. I love the English side of my course. Analysing texts, studying the English language, linguistics etc. I'm not enjoying the child development side/geography side of my course. I continuously zoned out of my geography lecture and tutorial during the week and when sitting down to start my child development assignment I realised that right now in my life, it just doesn't interest me. I am fully aware that this is probably because right now, I'm just not mature enough to comprehend everything involved in the course properly. And yes, it was a day filled with doubt over my course yet again. Which only leads to one thing, first thing Monday morning I am doing some phoning around to try and organise the best choice for me. I'm still not sure if I should take a 'gap year' and work for the year, mature and then go back into studies, if I should change course and focus on the English side which is my interest or what to do.
I'll keep you posted yeh? 

- Emma