This week is orientation week for those who have signed up for it. Singapore is well represented, and the number of Singaporeans here is more than what I had expected. We are the most well-represented country in the orientation program among the countries in SE Asia. There are of course many international students here. As term proper starts only next week, most of the students I have meet so far are international students, mostly from Europe and Asia, plus others from Americas and Carribean. I supposed the British students would be coming in next week as most of them live off-campus as new and international students get priority for campus accomodation.
And many of them will be studying courses that would be considered as "unconventional" and "economically un-viable" back in Singapore, like astrophysics, philosophy, linguistics, post-war recovery, archeology to name a few.
It's going to be an interesting time here.
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