Finally!!!

FINALLY!!! I got an email from Singapore today confirming me as a non-graduating student at NUS!!! I want to fly out 3 weeks on Friday, but I still haven’t booked my flights because so many things have gone wrong for me that I didn’t want to tempt fate! First of all, I missed one of my final exams in Glasgow because I was ill, so now I have to take it as a first sitting in August at the British Council in Singapore. It’s definitely the most expensive illness i’ve ever had because it’s costing me almost £300 to do it there!!! Then, like some of the other students, I had an email saying that i’d been rejected from some of the courses i’d applied for and I didn’t even have the minimum number of 3 required! Now i’m enrolled on about 10 random Geography courses, which weren’t exactly my first choices, but I only have to do 6 so I’ll just pick the best ones when I get out there!!!

Something else that’s worrying me is that the accomodation office haven’t let me know about which halls i’m in!!! Considering its getting so close to me going I think I need to start looking into off-campus places to stay… but I don’t really want to have to do that because staying in halls is definitely the best way to meet people and make friends!

I’m hoping that as soon as I arrive all these annoying little incoveniences will pail in comparison to me being out there, but I didn’t know there would be so many forms, emails and letters involved in what I thought would be a relatively simple process!!!

Maria x

p.s. I hope I don’t sound like a proper moaner because I know that a lot of you will probably be experiencing the same frustrations I am!