orientation day

Today was my first unofficial day of school also known as orientation. So far I’m really impressed with the school. Everything was really organized, we started right at 8:00 were given a package of relevant info and got to sign up for various tours and even a boat cruise! There are a few mandatory events that we have to attend (luckily because I’m 3rd yr prevet not 1st or 2nd, I got to miss all the placement exams) and lots of optional ones. I was done fairly early today and went home to buy myself a printer. I found a really good one at a small store just around the corner. It’s really awesome, a color all in one that can fax, scan, copy and print *thumbs up for being able to print of notes when necessary… I had a bit of trouble installing my printer software and enlisted the help of some friends I’ve met in my dorm, Hussein (40 ish y/o med student) and Harish (24 y/o med student). It ended up that we were all planning on making stir fry for supper so we decided to cook supper together (sure beats eating and cooking alone!) It was an excellent academic dinner, we had a pretty thorough discussion about international economics. I really surprised myself with that.. didn’t think I had an interest or knew anything about it until the subject was brought up. All in all, today was really good, the only thing that could have been better was that I woke up with a cold (I think I got it on the plane) hope it doesn’t last long.