“Irasshaimase!” Said Term Three!!!

This March marks a new section in my almost-14-years-of-education life, and boy, how different this term is compared with the last two. Of course, the major difference is that this year, I’ll be starting my life in the INTEC Campus of UiTM Shah Alam.

As for the courses in term three… I think I’ll be spending lots of time in my campus. When I was in IPG Gaya, there were some courses that were swapped with this term’s courses. All those courses were co-curricular subjects, so basically that means I need to take three co-curricular subjects in one term… if my prediction is correct, that is. If it does, let’s hope I will not faint from exhaustion. Anyway, here’s the list of the conformed courses...

TSL451: Field Experience – This I will start next week, and I can’t wait. This course requires us to go to our given school and observe our mentors during the T&L sessions, among other things. We also get the chance to involve ourselves with the school activities.

TSL483: Applied Phonetics and Phonology – I guess an advanced study of phonetics in English? Just when you think that learning [æ], [ə], or [ʊ] is hard enough, you are now told that the letter R has more than one sound. Lucky we won’t learn ƿ or þ, both of which [Wynn and Thorn] are not IPA symbols, but two letters used in Old English. We don’t have History of English though. That will be gory fun.

TSL570: Literature and Media – Perhaps, media here don’t just refer to books, but TV, films, and music too. If I’m not mistaken, we need to do a project for this… video project! Ooohhh… I love literature!

BEL422: Report Writing – Seriously? Anyway, people said this course will teach us on how to write different reports for different types of instances. Really? I thought we only have one way to write report… the way is THAT way we learnt during our school years… primary school years.

BJP401: Japanese Language I – My dream is fulfilled! The seniors said that Japanese is only taught in the Main campus, but I hope this will not be a problem!!! I really, really want to take it~! Japanese is one of the seven languages offered for our Foreign Language course.

HBU111: Kesatria Negara – This is an obligated course for Co-curriculum I. I need to march then? So, I hope my experience in the marching team for Waja house during Gaya’s Division Games for two consecutive years will help me.

Other than the courses, the seniors told me the rooms in UiTM are equipped with air-conditioners. I can now practically see myself prone to flu and other kinds of cold-related diseases in the near future…