Bloggering:

As a successful applicant for this amazing award, I thought I ought to blog it. Just to clarify, by no means is this official, nor should it act like a "success guide" for future applicants. It is simply a personal account of this once-in-a-lifetime experience. For more official information, check out the US-UK Fulbright website, where you'll also find my own bio. However, if you've stumbled across this blog, and are hoping to apply yourself, or just simply have questions, I'd be more than happy to find you the answers. Just bear in mind, my account is not the be all and end all of the Fulbright Summer. I do hope I don't put anyone off - I would urge you all to apply (provided you're eligible of course!) as it no doubt will be a life-changing experience. Lastly, to my friends in the UK, I will miss you all so terribly! Enjoy your Summer, stay safe, and get some well deserved rest. Take care, Cheng x

12 July 2010

Orientation v2.0

Learning 30 new names in a day is tough, but we'll soon get there, eventually... I don't think I've ever introduced myself so often in one day though. It's great though; everyone is very like minded, and we all get along really well. I just feel like my English language skills are kinda incomparable to the Europeans. The English "test" was fine though - just a very pleasant conversation with one of the teachers.
Campus tour was cool. Walking outside mid-afternoon is pretty... hot. But they have great air conditioning inside literally all the buildings, and even the subway! Also, the difference between the tube and the subway is that the tube is about 20 miles underground, after walking like 10 minutes of tunnel, whereas the subway is just a flight of stairs and you're there. Another difference is that there isn't a tube map, or at least a mini map of the route on the actual carriage.
Oh, just realised I haven't blogged about the journey here. Two hour train/tube journey through London to get to Heathrow, 9 hour flight to Toronto, 5 hour wait in Toronto, 2 hour flight to Philadelphia, then a short drive to the university. It was a long day, but we worked well as a team, and managed to figure out everything ok. Totally exhausted though.

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