{"id":14404,"date":"2015-08-28T09:05:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T09:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2015-08-28T09:05:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T09:05:13","slug":"my-first-week-at-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/08\/28\/my-first-week-at-bu\/","title":{"rendered":"My first week at BU"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"Suyan-1\"<\/a>My name is Suyan. I have just completed a Master\u2019s degree in International Hospitality and Tourism Management<\/a> at Bournemouth University, and have just recently secured a graduate job in London which I am very excited about! I am originally from China. Here is a summary of my first week at BU.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I chose Bournemouth University, because it is one of best universities in teaching hospitality and it has a great reputation in this field. I was also attracted by the placement opportunity that my course offers as I believe the experience of working abroad will enhance my employability for the future.<\/p>\n

My first week was very exciting and enriching as I went to lots of university events and activities. Freshers\u2019 Fair was one of the highlights \u2013 it was very new and fascinating to me. I spotted a big dancing show in front of the library and I joined the crowd in watching the performance. Then some students approached me and asked me to join their societies. However, I quickly ran off as I was not interested in doing pole dancing! I continued exploring the fair and I was excited to see what the university had to offer. It was a very versatile and interesting experience. At the end of the day, I got lots of discount vouchers and free pizza vouchers. By that time I had realised that my student life in Britain had \u201cofficially\u201d started.<\/p>\n

I also went to the international dinner ceremony and got welcomed by the university\u2019s Dean and other university staff. I became friends with some of the people, who sat around me, and I feel very lucky that they remained my good friends throughout my university life.<\/p>\n

My school also organized a trip to Windsor Castle for us \u2013 there I got to meet all of my course mates and make a few friends as well.<\/p>\n

The only thing I regret is not being able to go to the big night party, which was organized by the Students’ Union at Bournemouth University during the first week \u2013 I am sure it must have been very exciting!<\/p>\n

By Suyan Zou<\/em>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name is Suyan. I have just completed a Master\u2019s degree in International Hospitality and Tourism Management at Bournemouth University, and have just recently secured a graduate job in London which I am very excited about! I am originally from China. Here is a summary of my first week at BU. I chose Bournemouth University,… Read more » about My first week at BU<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,1663],"tags":[130,48,785,2186,1028,2295],"class_list":["post-14404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-postgraduate","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-international-student","tag-postgraduate-study","tag-study","tag-suyan-zou"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}