As said, I've never been a last-minute type of person. Not planning something or not foreseeing something and then planning for that thing is an unforgivable for me. I accept that accidents happen, but if somebody tells me that they couldn't finish something because they didn't foresee something, it would really bug me.
Anyways, it's the end of my last full week being here in KL. Lots of people have been really nice, asking me out for meals and drinks so that they can catch up with me before I go; some of family members gave me angpaus as well - and the whole thing has just made me feel very loved (: I realize that on both sides of the family, I am the first one to sort of 'go abroad' as it were to study on a long term basis so it's been really nice being the pride of the family for a while haha. Plus, it's a scholarship too.
What can I say? It's just God's wonderful grace and blessing towards me. For the non-believers who knew about my going away, they keep telling me that I'm very 'lucky' - but I know my God, and I am not a recipient of mere luck. He has been planning this for me even before I knew anything of that sort. My God is wonderful.
You see, I love the way things have turned out and how God has led me to study English Lit at UM. That in itself is a whole blog-post worth of a story, but I digress. Anyways, I'm proud of the prestige that comes with being in the country's premier public university but with all that tradition also comes a certain amount of conservativeness and lineage that is difficult to break away from. Nothing flashy, nothing unnecessary, nothing controversial or too contemporary for a University that's been the best since its conception a hundred years ago.
So when I read of stories from American universities with its student-led and student-oriented activities, crazy purposeless but fun traditions initiated by students and all the other parts of liberal education that UM doesn't provide, I'd always wonder how my university experience would be like outside the starchy walls of UM. And now, God has graciously answered my heart's desires and provided the opportunity for me to experience university life apart from UM. It's been such a blessing to be selected and given a place and to be funded for by a scholarship - yes, God is and always has been orchestrating my life and He is good.
Thus now, I've done some parts of my packing and one round of editing. I initially thought the luggage bag Pearly lent me was too big, but now I think it's too small. I'm thinking of bringing six pairs of shoes there and I know it's crazy but ah I'm a girl. I thought of bringing a curling iron too, but I've no space now so I've got to stick to my unfussy routines. On my last weekend here, I will be having multiple dinners, lunches and brunches with lots of wonderful people (who will miss me despite my being only gone for 5 months) and I will enlist the help of the expert packer who lived out of the same suitcase for a year in the UK. Yeehah.
Maybe my next post will be tips on How and What To Pack.
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