A lot of people dreaming that he or she could study in oversea someday, getting a better education, better certs, getting to know new friends all over the world. Basically what's in everyone's mind is, studying in overseas is something really nice. Well, now I'm studying in an Europe country, which using a language that I've nvr imagined learning it one day, surrounded by people who are maybe much bigger than you, or mayb not, speaking a language that's totally different from what you familiar with. So, here's my 1st hand experience:
Wake up before 6am for almost every morning. My class start at 7.30am from monday to thursday. Go to bathroom and do all the usual stuff, grab some bread or biscuits for breakfast, then take a 5 minute walk to the railway station, take the train to Esslingen, then take a 5 minutes bus ride to my Uni campus, and sometimes I have to walk there, if I miss the bus. And it's always freaking cold in the morning.
And then, the lectures. If talking about studying overseas is to get to know new people from all over the world, for example, china, japan, italy, USA etc, well, there's a japanese guy in my class though, but he disappear for most of the time. Besides him, I'm the only foreigner in my class with about 50 ppl of Germans. And I don't think they communicate in the Deutsch that we learned before. I know, my Deutsch isn't good enough, but wait, what thay speak isn't the Deutsch that we used to learn!!! That isn't Deutsch, that is, well, what they so called Schwabish??? This is just like a non-chinese learning mandarin for 2.5 years, and study in a place where everyone speaking hokkien, how on earth he's gonna understand that? And the funny thing is that, the deutschers are like just simply open their mouth, making some blurry sounds, without me able to interpret a single german word out of the sound they made, and the lecturers actually understand them and able to answer their question. And we foreigners trying to make every words clear, every pronunciation correct, no gramatical mistake, sometimes the lecturers might have to ask us to repeat our question again, how ironic is that. Good thing is that, I'm able follow all the lectures so far, at least able to take note most of the important points, if not all. And the bad thing is, the lecturers are the only person that I can understand in the entire class. Language is the main tools in making friends. If u can't communicate with them, well...... Never felt that "special" and lonely before in my entire life...... DSH 3 isn't enough, apparently we have to learn Schwabish as well....
I know everyone is struggling with the same things at the moment. Seniors been telling us that our first sem will be a really tough period that we have to go through. And some said, our life over here will be like a U-shape, where there will be a point when u'll be in the bottom end, before you bounce back again. And my reaction was like, well, how tough could it be? Just relax and making jokes out of everything, be steady. Now, I've finally got the chance to taste what they have been through. Few days ago, our super and mega seniors from Esslingen have gave us some really encouraging words: "STRESSlingen" "Welcome to HELL!!!" "No malaysian student has ever completed their bachelors for Fahrzeugtechnik in 7 semesters, that's impossible...." OMG, this is gonna be interesting.....
HS Esslingen, whether it's a top uni or not, I'm not too sure, but certainly, it's famous with "STRESS". Other than getting a good results in your exams, you also have to collect 7 points of your so-called Sozialpunkte (Social-points) within the period of your studies by doing social works. 5 hours for 1 point. Then you also have to write some report for some industry stuff. According to the germans, HS Esslingen isn't a school that u can easily get a place to study in. Now we have about 50 ppl in one class, and the number will be getting lesser and lesser as the semester goes on. Some will fail, some will dropped out......
Life has been easy and boring for the last few years, if compare to my present situation. Finally, I got something to keep myself busy and focus. Finally I got something that I must overcome no matter what. Every obstacle is a chance to learn and to grow and be stronger..... I'm not gonna back down. I've came this far, and more importantly, I'm still doing great, why should I claim myself defeated, while there's still plenty of hopes for me bouncing back? Yes, I'm falling slowly at the moment, and if my life over here is to be described as a U-shape, I do hope that I'll reach the bottom end sooner, so that I can bounce back again as soon as possible....
Missing the times in CDC and Reutlingen, where we all still together. Skipping classes, no exam...... and now, here comes the real thing...... Gotta stay strong, everyone!!!
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