Gold Coast

My blog has been extremely neglected. Feel quite guilty

I shall try to blog every now and then in uni rather than having a regular spacing. That way it’s easier to maintain a blog. Atm, the it’s O Week at Uni which means I’m bumming around until next week. For those who don’t know, I’m studying a Bachelor of Oral Health in Dental Science at Griffith University on their Gold Coast Campus. It’s different from regular oral health degrees in that it’s actually a dentistry program because after we finish the degree in 3 years, it’s auto entry into a 2 yr graduate diploma of dentistry which allows me to register as a fully qualified dentist. The grade this year is quite small seeing as they don’t give second round offers so there are only 70ish other students in the same course as me. Carol and William are in the same course as me and met lots of new people so less lonely than I expected. Anyway back to uni courses, dental students take the same courses as oral health therapy and hygiene students (about 25 or so of them). Kinda rip considering they do the same things but don’t get a dental qualification. They go into education or work with children visiting schools and such. I shall properly rant about injustices later on but I guess I’m feeling very glad I got into dentistry. Didn’t get the marks for Vet Science at USyd. Thankfully, my parents convinced me to place dent as my first pref (got rejected by Adelaide dent and UQ dent is ATAR + UMAT only). Dentistry has been on my mind already for the last few months. Seemed like a good career and compromise. I always liked the health industry which was why I didn’t wanna do Law and Anu or Commerce at UNSW. Funny how much people’s mind changes. For some reason, a week after HSC ended, I was dreading the prospect of Med if I got in. My student leader at Griffith explained it to me pretty well over lunch yesterday. The difference between med and dent is that after u finish med, u go on to study more whilst you start your career after dent (yes, I hope you are reading this and crying more Bonnie:P). Not gonna know what it may have been like if I tried for med. If I moved it up in preferences, today, I might just be a med student. Does anyone believe in fate? For me, I just believe God plans everything out for me. I somehow managed to narrowly scrape into all these unexpected opportunities and fortunes.

Now studying Griffith Dent obviously means I had to move out. Been joking with my parents about moving out as soon as I hit 18 for years and now that it’s actually happened, kinda more surreal. Lesson to watch what you wish for. On the 21st of February, my parents and I, fully packed with all the belonging I planned on taking with me set out by car for my new home for the next 5 years. Had to go by car because I realised how much crap I wanted to take with me. Had 2 suitcases(1 giant, 1 small) of clothes ad shoes, manchester, my Sony VAIO laptop, my new gaming desktop+ various multitudes of electronics and kitchen accessories. It was a 10 hr drive including breaks so wasn’t too bad for my parents. The first thing you notice up in the Gold Coast is since it’s by the coast, it’s extremely humid so it’s very hot and sticky. Not very good weather for me. I tend to prefer cold/cooler places. I’m living on campus for the first semester at least, just to get use to the surroundings making life much easier for me. The rent is quite expensive, around $210/week but my room is very new, clean and nice. The accomodation is nice, but prob not that suitable for me. There is prob < 10 asians living on campus, meaning most of the people living there are white. Nothing wrong with that except they prob walk around shirtless and drink too much. Plus there are parties or some other event every night basically so there is some noise unless you shut your windows and doors.

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