One week.

After being at HKBU for a week, I think things are going fairly OK. But I think it’s still early days and there must be a lot of protocols that I have to get myself acquainted with, and hopefully everything will be fine. Now as an admin personnel, I think I can see how difficult certain things can be for people at my level. Students may always want to do something spectacular or extraordinary, but rules and guidelines set by the school sometimes do make these extraordinary things difficult to do. Students being students always would want to do things their way (I was a student too, after all), so being stuck between students and the regulations sometimes can be a very daunting thing – you won’t want the students to hate you for rejecting what they want to do, and yet you will never contemplate bending the rules and regulations for them. So I think communication is always going to be very important. So far I haven’t really been stuck in a difficult situation yet, but who’s to say that’s not going to happen?

Also, I still am trying to come to terms with the fact that I’m an admin personnel instead of a student now, and there are always occasions when I’m very keen to help students in the conduct of their activities and all that – like all seniors would to their own organizations. However, one of the advices I’ve heard so far is that while it is true that we can help the students a lot in our capacities, it is also equally important for them to learn to do things right, and perhaps learn from their mistakes. So the role we play is not so much of a do-er, but more of an advisor and consultant. And sometimes it may even be better to let the students do the things as they plan, and only provide assistance when the need really arises. After all, generally students may not like the idea of having an admin person hanging around them while they do their stuffs (just as I never like that as well), so perhaps that’s something I have to learn as well.

Spent the weekend doing a lot of resting – as much as I am enjoying myself both at work and at school, I couldn’t wait for the weekend to come because I was so tired at the end of it all. Perhaps going to Taiwan over the weekend also contributed to my poor condition, so in general I was just enduring a very tiring week over the past couple of days. Slept quite a lot over the 2 days, and I think I’m more refreshed today.

Could it be because I’m in a Christian university that makes me begin to adopt Christian thinking? Suddenly I feel as if I’m looking forward to everything in life!