Sunshine, lollipops, and orientation sessions

No lollipops. That was a lie. Sorry. I wanted to throw something out there for all the kids who might not otherwise read this.

Plenty of orientation sessions -- if you like being well oriented, this is the place for you. This has to be a short post because we're starting our first voluntary, student-arranged and directed orientation session in about ten minutes. Cultural sensitivity: there are 43 nationalities represented amongst the 90 students here, so we've broken into 11 groups (yes, that means Canada and the USA together) and we're all getting 10 minutes to help everyone else understand what we say after we say hello. I'm hopeful there will be a math orientation session tomorrow, given this numerical summary of our upcoming session (as written on the blackboard in front of the class):

11 x 10 minutes = 120 minutes

Yes, the cream of the crop over here.

It's really sunny today, quite gorgeous out really, and so I took some great pictures of the campus just now. The pictures tell only some of the story obviously, so to complete the picture in your mind's eye, imagine what the Starship Command on Earth looks like in Star Trek 5; that's pretty much the IMD campus. There's actually a semi-circular sliding automatic glass door... ok, to be more precise, there are two quarter-circular sliding glass door sections. When closed, they form a semi-circle. Fascinating, I'm sure. Here's a picture of the complex with the amazing door, just so we can all appreciate it. The door itself is on the left side of the picture, marked by... nothing. The amazing-looking part in the centre is a light well, in case you were dying to know.

These last two pictures are of two of the sculptures that are around here -- I actually quite like both of them, though photographing the dancing women on the right (as opposed to the dancing women on the left, you ask?) was quite a challenge. Thankfully I have short hair, and not my grade 10 tall hair, otherwise you'd see me in the shadows for sure.

I'd ask how everyone else is, but this is a fairly one-way medium. That being said, I definitely miss Toronto, Canada, friends, and family. Wishing you were here.

Ian