Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Orientation Day 1 (Official Count)
Today was team building day.
For the next term, I will work with the same 4 people on all class projects (rather than having a different group for each class, which would be a scheduling nightmare). They intentially split up all the international students so most groups have one international student (some have two now, since we have 40 foreigners).
We took a personality test and learned about team dynamics, somewhat interesting but spending all day doing it was quite tiring.
Had dinner at a Japanese place that was grossly overstaffed (12 waitresses greeted us at the door!). Now, time to study more Chinese.
For the next term, I will work with the same 4 people on all class projects (rather than having a different group for each class, which would be a scheduling nightmare). They intentially split up all the international students so most groups have one international student (some have two now, since we have 40 foreigners).
We took a personality test and learned about team dynamics, somewhat interesting but spending all day doing it was quite tiring.
Had dinner at a Japanese place that was grossly overstaffed (12 waitresses greeted us at the door!). Now, time to study more Chinese.
