On Monday’s I only have one class at 2:30 in the afternoon, which was nice because one would think that you could sleep in. Oh no, not here in Australia. Because in Australia, they have a bird called a Cookaburra. The Cookaburra bird is the never failing wake up call for all ICMS students. It emits a loud high-pitched piercing sound over and over again. I have placed my fan right next to my bed so hopefully it will help drown out the noise of those damn birds.
My venue operations class today was, to put it lightly, boring and tedious. We were taught what to look for when you are in charge of picking a venue for an event. This is when we were learned to use our five senses, were explained what our five senses are, and then went tediously through each one to show us how we can use our senses to choose an appropriate venue. I understand that I am taking a 100 level class and it is the second week of class, but really, give me a break.
Now let me state that I love living in Australia, but for the business school I am attending, ICMS is extremely unorganized and is not run properly. So I am going to go off on a little rant:
We were led to believe that we had unlimited Internet during our stay here. What led us to believe this was that they literally put on ICMS advertisements: “Unlimited access to Internet.” Well, much to our dismay, we learned that we have a $40 credit of Internet per month. If you go over $40, then you have to pay money to the school to access the Internet. Their reason for putting up a restriction is because they don’t want students clogging up the Internet by going on Facebook, MySpace, or YouTube. That is why no one has seen pictures from Australia yet because it takes up a lot of credit to download pictures. For instance, if you want to merely 5 pictures, it would take over 20 minutes to download those pictures. Skype also takes up a lot of credit, but that is everyone’s main communication towards home to talk to family and friends. Why would they want to take that away from us when we are so far away?
So Katie, Michelle and I felt it necessary to talk to someone about this. We brought forth the paper that said that we were able to have unlimited access to the Internet. When presented with the paper, they responded that you have access to the Internet at all times, which basically means you can go into the computer lab whenever you want and went further on to tell us we were informed of limited Internet when we were sent out papers informing us about ICMS.
I told them that it was false advertisement to put a statement saying “unlimited access” because no one in the right mind would think of it as accessing a computer lab 24/7. AND we weren’t even informed about the limited internet until after we had been accepted into the college. After much complaining, we were able to receive an extra $20 credit that we can use if we run low any month. I guess that it is better than nothing but I have never heard of a university limiting the amount of time you are able to use the Internet.
On a happier note, the day took a turn for the better when I was informed that I had a package. I went down to receive it and noticed that it was from my brother. I opened the package to find myself with a video camcorder!! I have the best brother ever!! It made me so happy, I can’t wait to record things happening in Australia and show everyone from back home.
That’s about all for now… 3 more days until BSB concert!!!
Cheers
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