Arrived in Heidelberg on the 1st of April, with heavy heavy bags that my poor babe had to carry. Landed to administrative ridiculousness, with Heidelberg's administration hailing as one of the more primitive of universities' I've encountered. Or maybe I've just been taking NUS for granted. In NUS, where matriculation only consists of one step, where one collects everything from the same place, where people speak english, where most things are organised and electronic... Just think of Heidelberg as the opposite. I'm still adamantly lamenting that Heidelberg has almost absolutely nothing.
Went to Lindau after that for a blissful few days, with good food, lots of time, no administrative stress...
then back to Heidelberg. The first few days alone were just miserable. Everything's so different here. It's like thrown into a place 10 years behind. Everything is done by paper work, not extremely fantastic in the organisation department, in german,... and just generally very different from the fuss-free, easy life i led back in both Singapore and London. Every lecture's conducted differently, with each lecturer having his/her own method of conducting the class and of signing people up. There're even different certificates one can get out of taking the same class. And whoa. the workload's just madness. But thankfully that's the workload for the music module i'm taking, so i guess i don't mind that much that it's a tad bit a lot more than what i've been used to. And another thing, module mapping has just been so utterly cruel.. and to save myself the stress and headache i've decided to do a special semester in NUS when i get back so that I can just take 4 modules here, and hopefully be able to concentrate on music once i manage to find a piano or an organ. (now that's another problem..... -.-
ya. generally. i need all your prayer help.
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