How’s life in Sheffield?That’s what most people will ask me these few days.
Well i have to say i love it here, the cold environment, the friendly people, the beautiful city and after few days of classes i have to say i love the way they teach as well. It’s just so different than what i’ve experience in Malaysia for past few years where they really want you to understand what they teached. I often got lost when we have lab session back in Malaysia but over here, they’ll go step by step and make sure everyone is following and not miss out anything.
Only thing i find troublesome so far is the weather, well it seems to be a little unpredictable. I’m here for 7 days now but it has being raining for 5 days. The rain here is different from Malaysia where you can wait for the rain to stop after awhile but it can keep going on non stop for the whole day. Worse case was yesterday when we went to shop for groceries after class, it started pouring when we were shopping around and eventually we spent some 2 hours waiting for the rain to go off. After 2 hours the rain got noticeably smaller and at the moment we try to step out from the store, the whole parking area in front was flooded!!we try to walk a big round back to the main street but there’s a bigger surprise for us, part of the street were flooded too causing masive traffic jam. With no choice we just moved along in the rain with wet pants, socks and shoes.
Interestingly while i was in front of the store wondering how to get home a local guy actually apologize to me about the weather here. It’s just so much difference compare to Malaysia where we wouldn’t even speak to anyone especially tourist.
Another thing i don’t really like here is of cos the food. Well i’m so used to mum’s home cook food and occasionally i feel frustrated when i have to think what to buy when mum is not cooking. Now i relized what a silly mindset i used to have because in here a simple meal outside will cost 2-3pounds easily. Imagine if i eat out for 2 meals so now we started going to buy cheap groceries, making lunchbox and dinner everyday. gish i miss Malaysia so much now!~How i wish i can have the cold wind weather from UK + friendly people from UK + food from malaysia!!
