The School Bell Has Rung

I think I am caught up with the blog entries from my first blog that died, so the date is correct on this entry! =)

Yesterday was the first day of class for UdeM. My first class didn't start until 6:30pm, but I, along with everyone in the TMBA program, had several issues with my schedule so I went to talk to the person in charge of the program. The system would not let me register for two of my classes because of time conflicts. You would think that the school would have all of this figured out before we arrived in Canada (let alone, by the first day of school), but they didn't! I am the type of person that has to have a list for everything, so this unorganization is driving me crazy. It seems like since I have arrived, I have had problem after problem. And when I go talk to someone they tell me to go to the next person, and the next person. You would think there would be an "end" person somewhere! And by the way, the time conflict issue is still not resolved! My class last night was Organizational Management. We will have two large assignments and two major tests. It seems to be a hard class, but the teacher is extremely nice! All of my classes will be taught in English (thank goodness!).

On a side note, I would highly recommend the next group of students to study the basics of the French language. Although Moncton is bilingual, every document I have been given at UdeM has been in French. This is very frustrating...especially if its not an electronic document where I can at least copy/paste it into freetranslation.com! Even the campus map is in French. This has been very frustrating for me. I have never taken a French class, so I'm not even the least bit familiar with the language. I was very excited about being able to take a French class up here (because I thought it would help tremendously), but I found out yesterday that the Introductory to French course is only given at night (its considered a "Continuing Education" course for adults in the community). And almost all of my business courses are at night. Another conflict. I'll get through it.