January 28
My roommate was supposed to come today, but alas, I’m still alone. By this point I know she is definitely Ghanaian, but now she can pop up any moment. Hannah and I were walking back into our dorm tonight and got really excited because we thought the lights were on in both of our rooms, meaning each of our roommates had moved in, but after slowly knocking and preparing for the big moment, we were both let down. Womp.
I guess it’s because of Ghanaian timing. Rumor has it the professors don’t show up the first week of classes, so a lot of the students don’t come back until the following week. Registration itself is really chaotic: first you look through the course catalogue to pick out classes, then you walk to all the departments to write down the times of the classes that are being offered, if they’re listed (often they’re not actually posted), then you find that the majority you picked are not actually offered, so you pick new ones, or wander to other departments to find replacements, and eventually, if there is anyone around, you register individually at each department. At some point, which hasn’t happened yet, you also register online. But you don’t actually know what’s going on at any point, because all of the departments do it differently and they don’t all post the times, so it’s quite possible you could sign up for two classes at the same time and not even know it. Or, in the case of the Geography department, you could be registered, but because they don’t post the timetables until Monday, when classes start, it’s quite possible you could miss class simply because they didn’t choose to tell you that you had class until the scheduled time had already passed. It’s certainly different…
But anyway, maybe that’s why my roommate’s not here! Who knows?
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