“M loving it”

Ohhhh wow…. last Tuesday was preety good you know why???? Coz of International show case at my University (GCU:obviously for common good)… first of all I just thought it was just going to be kinda boring activities where we will get descriptions regarding certain companies and bla bla bla…. However, sometimes what u perceive become pretty opposite just “like a magic”..😍😍 I must say I was fortunate enough to attend that “International showcase” with my friends.. luckily on the very day we do have break for 3 hours n that give us chance to explore around GCU specially George Moore building!!!!

George Moore building was kinda packed with students, and most of them are hovering around the event .. I too was printing something for lecture notes n my eyes caught the groups of students who are chatting about the events..I couldn’t control my feet n went closer .. Wow it was incredible event stuffed with various activities like radio caley, free henna n hairstyle 💁‍♀️, 🍵 from China , goodies from different countries n yes most importantly world map 🗺.. it was just 👏 awesome..

I think 🤔 the map that was hanging in the wall was the one of the biggest attraction.. ohhh myself , my friend and obviously other students were trying to find out their own country to point out.. On other hand it was not only picking the country you came from but was all about addressing the place you have been in your life n your future destination.. Isn’t it too 👍!!! Running✍️ my hands through that maps further excite me to recall my dream land because in map we can pin the place where we want to go in near future…. obviously as it was an event we were very packed but we( GCU students ) all did a great job … hehehehehe

Also during these process I too got chance to meet various students from different places as well.. oh I really loved it … Also for my surprise I got to know how students love to explore around throughout the world.. Though we were all from different parts but amazingly ours hearts cheers in the same way..

Henna “mehendi in Nepali ” . We have got our own importance of putting henna in hands as it is a symbols of the Love .. We put henna during our marriage ceremony and we have our own beleive that is : darker henna indicates the good marital life and we have other cultural beliefs as well.. Including henna as a showcase act as a trigger for me and made me feel like I was at home 🏠 .. Also I love the excitement of my friends and other international students towards henna…

ohhh I nearly forget to mention because of this events me and my friends hits to taste different cuisine as well.. food 🥘 was really awesome 👏 too.. Also it was like a treat for us and in other hand a bit of saving from lunch 🥗🥙 📦 box bravo.

Actually I am kinda shy person to attend such events because i used to have negative perception of being alone and 😑.. But this events prove me wrong .. from this events I got chance to socialize not only with my home country students but from the 🌍.. I got chances to meet new people and found them very welcoming as well.. It too has broaden my horizon..

So , I am quite proud that I attends that events , and in future I too will attend such programs actively.. I am proud to be a part of GCU ..I think it is making me more mature in specialised course as well as insocial aspect❤️❤️

“Does age matters”❤️❤️

for most of us weekend is pretty straightforward towards exploring vibrant Glasgow beauty and relieving stress of those week days.. But for me, I think it is bit different . As usual on Saturday I woke up early morning by 🕡 (despite of not willing to broke my coziness) got ready and head to 🚌 🛑 to catch bus to make my way towards care home..

As British summer has already farewelled us , morning is being much more chilly then before… However , it couldn’t broke my passion to work for my beloved elderly people… By the time I reached care home all my coworkers and nurse were in the nursing station . They were discussing some of the newly implemented rule for making life of elderly people more environmentally friendly for them.. yey 😍😍

Wow , I am purely happy 😃 when I got to know those ideas(impressed) .. But I was a bit angry when I got to see Work allocation (freaked me out) because they put me down as a activity organiser for the same day because our activity co-ordinator phone in sick(quite simple things during weekends). With a heavy heart I say well fine.. I will try.. Actually it is not a joke to manage activity for 36 residents those too with required attention..

I do have confilts within myself … I was not sure what should I do??? What might be the best thing for everyone.. firstly I thought about pampering session but I was afraid 😟 that it might take ages to do so by self.. At that moment so many ideas 💡 hover in my brain ( reading newspaper, playing some games , cooking 🥘 and so on) .. But nothing could excite my brain

But during my break I was googling ( my best friend ) there I read an article regarding triggering brain among demented people through various activities such as through music or paint.. it amazed me.. Then I thought they are too old how they can hold the paint 🎨 and draw things.. But it’s hard to belief , I chose paintings and music for them.. I know it was going to be quite tough but it’s never bad to try new things.. I spoke about with my team and they told the idea is good . I Was quite lucky as well there were lots of materials for paintings..

So , after lunch 🥗 I offered residents( one who are interested) for those activities.. To begin with it is kinda difficult to start with because I knew I am not going to organise these thing well… actually I was worried as well if I couldn’t excite their senses.. But me and my co workers works as a group, try to persuade each of them to draw a very simple things such ❤️, try to ask them to rem simple quotes and so on.

But after a hour of struggle , surprising results came out… The session was very productive.. most amazingly I could address a happiness in our resident faces.. That, actually drive me crazy..At one point I have a sense like wining a gold medal in a race..

Wow, after a long hours shift way back I thought 💭 actually age doesn’t matter , it just the physical appearance get changed, but the mind and skills even remain the same …. secondly I too appreciate myself, and thought I too have that capability to organise thing, could address the demand of time and more or less I organised a group and Work in a team effectively as well…definitely in future I will accept whatever task I got I will follow it with more confidence not with losing temper (hehehehhe). looking back I think I have been developing transformational skills in different way.. I think, I am applying my theory (GCU ) into practice at some instant (taking baby steps though)😃😃…

Also i am thinking Common good award 🥇 could be mine as well because more or less I too have touched a pathway as a GCU common good attributes ..

Reflection is beautiful:

As a part of my skills module , I have to blog at least 20 reflective ideas 💡… In regard with such posting related with my thinking or so called experience I like to be quite private.. I doesn’t like to open up so easily.. Though with some of my closest and dear one ☝️ I am like a open 📖 book..Whenever , I have to blog I really felt traumatised because sometimes I could not find topic to write or sometimes I am poor with my words.. This is making my process for blogging quite steady.. Sometimes, my friends too have to pressurised for me to blog on time.. Nothing changed , I was still back where my friends blogs are jumping quite rapidly… But yesterday after Kim class I understand the reason behind blogging (a bit better than before) where she addressed quite easily how we can reflect on our daily progress either about university life or other activities we preformed everyday.She too stated the technique (Gibbs cycle) of reflecting … Needless to say at that very point I found it quite interesting as well😀 ..She too give us pretty interesting example and handout as well.. The task was quite good where we have to analyse some of the blogged examples and use smileys 😀🙁😐.. That was the absolute fun for all of us(I hope). Then during those task I realise how the blogging must go with, it is not only about sharing our experiences but also addressing our feeling during the event that happen (excitement, depressed,annoyed and so on) with realisation and for future betterment…😀

his class , I realise firstly I just had a negative 👎 feeling about blogging , secondly I did not try to understand how can I blog well … So, I learnt a new thing from that class as well.. it is kinda worth for my process of learning.. So, now it gives me a bit more inspiration towards blogging… So , I am hoping to blog in a well manned 😍😍
Ho
alise and learn for further development….😀👩🏻‍🎓👩🏻‍🎓🌍🇳🇵

Making life easier:

Time actually flies …. sometime I used to think 💭 does time passes quickly over here in Uk 🇬🇧 (giggles).. Awwww I think so because I just felt I had started my semester last week but unfortunately we are already approaching to week 9

I am not sure how other students feel about SKIlLS module but I perceive it as a burden for some couple of weeks… I always used to thinks why we have to study 📖 SKILLS as a module. As I am studying diabetes not any kind of IT or management (my negative perception).I too felt it doesn’t make any sense for health and science students (speaking frankly).😜

Well days passes on , I started to realise the importance of SKILLS module during my assessment submission for some of my ongoing module . Then I remember delivered lectured from skills modules directly or indirectly have had engrossed me to learn about using ref Work, library 📚 stuffs , presentation skills , importance of time management , working as a team and many more.. Those all stuffs help me to write my coursework much effectively specially Refwork …Obiviously , I too learn how to format my time for each modules..

Now , I think these module has shaped me a lot in terms of learning new thing , make me realise technological stuffs are not only for IT students , more precisely it make me more confident which is one of the common good attributes.. so far I can confess it make my GCU life experiences much easier…

I am glad I got chance to take SKILLS module with my postgraduate 👩🏻‍🎓 course.. Hopefully,😉when I will graduate 👩🏻‍🎓 I will not only be expert in diabetes studies but will be good at transferable skills…

“The common good award 🥇👩🏻‍🎓👨‍🎓”

I think most of us never knew about it before , or some of might know about it but did not pay attention towards it ..

We got chance to know about this award 🥇 during our skills module which happened a couple of weeks back.. at first when I got to know that Kim is about to light 💡 some scenario regarding those award I thought why we need to know , what is the purpose and bla bla… I thought it is just a talk and going to be boring coz to be honest I am not that keen to know about it 😇 …

However, as per schedule I try to pay an attention towards it… But when one of the adviser from common good award section started to address what is common good award 🥇 and how it is proceed in terms of awarding students even for a little approach or voluntary work and so on.. I found it quite interesting and that automatically draws my attention towards it (being good 👩🏻‍🎓)..

After a session of 15 to 20 minutes of talk , I realise it is worth enough to listen 👂 to it.. I got to know very new thing that is “common good 🥇 ” which is formulated within our university and it is basically for students..

I think it is a good way of encouraging students as well.. in other hand 🤚 from this session I assume we all got chances to get information how we can get various awards that being a GCU students we can get awarded during our study period.. Amazingly, these awards can build up our CV as well ..

Hope most of us will be awarded…

“My wee experience”

  As I am always ready to grab the opportunity I got at any point of my life. It is my very first job in Glasgow.  I am working in a care 🏠 part time.  I still do remember the very day when I applied to that place , got a call for an interview and finally got the job as a career despite of any experiences. I think I got this job only because I am a nurse 👨‍⚕️.. However , interview goes all well as they asked me all about dementia and I pretty know about those theoretically 🌼

Well during those periods i not only got chance to challenge myself but also understand how vulnerable old people are… At one point, during this period I feel quite stressful because of the Scottish slag namely “wee” “I ” “canne ” and many more.. most of my team they all used to speak pure Scottish.. oh my gosh I used to struggle a lot !!! And I too realise that my one ☝️ weakness is hesitation which is pulling me back not to ask what they mean??? Later one I had a meeting with my nurse in charge and at the end of the meeting she stated that I had a language barrier but good point she indicate was I am a good worker who looks after old people with Love 💕…funny isn’t it a language barrier , so from that day I started to ask even simple thing with my team , I started to open up with them… 

wow within some weeks there was a great 👍 changes among us , myself and my co worker feel much easier to communicate , and more interestingly I got to know some Scottish slag as well..

From this Work I realise that nothing is impossible, but we have to find the reason what is pulling us back.. yes obviously 🙄 when you are far away from your own country we have to face challenges but we don’t have to let us down.. if we let ourselves down than nothing gonna change but it only harm u in different ways..

Thus, we shouldn’t judge 👩‍⚖️ book 📚 by its cover.. let’s open up and enjoy 😉 and learn new things….

PDP: Sharing experiences

Ohh well I am quite late to blog about our very first group discussion during PDP 1 session which was lead by our love;y package 📦 of inspiration Frances . Fair enough I am kinda late poster but hope it is worth enough hehehheheh😀 to be posted in regard with my experiences……

I could not deny the fact , that I dislike the way of being mixed with others group by counting 1,2,3 and 4 … it is because I am kinda shy and worried to get open up with new faces….At the same time I found it quite exciting as we all are trying to be in a group as per we have been divided.. my groups mate and me all of us were shouting I am group 4, who is 4 and bla bla……👩‍👧‍👧👩‍👧‍👧thereafter within a minute or two we sorted ourselves in a chair , facing each other and also we greeted each other with lovely smile and a short introduction…

At the very moment I realise all of us were in the same situation trying to come as a group and speak up coz it is mandatory to do as advised (hehehehehehehe) just kidding👻👀… However, I think being in a group from different major it act as a catalyst among us … We (Edson, Sartaj,Tanjuma, Inonge, Miryam, Wala) I think have had a mixture of feeling that time. As we all are from different countries , obviously I believe with different perspectives and goals as. Among us this PDP session not only act as group therapy but helps us to get more information regarding how all of us were finding GCU and how we are coping with the masters degree along with various factors such as uni environment , weather , language , cultures and many more.. After listening 👂 I realise in this case we all are on the same boat 🚣 🚣 🚣…. despite of enrolling in different masters degree most of us shared the same feeling regarding the huge list of assignment , presentation and many more that we have to write and how we are managing it.For , my surprise despite having different majors, different attitudes it’s not only me who felt it quite stressful but all of us were in same condition. During this conversation we too get opportunity to talk about our background as well as how we have been studied in our native country.

During this session I got chances to challenge myself to learn new things because all my groups mates had a kind of influencing characteristic, where some of them at one ☝️ point have actively participate in different things apart from busy schedule of university…. Nevertheless not only I got chances to listen to various experiences from my group but also talks directed towards different 10 transferable skills📓📓📝… As per advised being a good student 👨‍🎓 we all have written prior session but during the discussion it appears to be more clearer …. from this discussion I too get to trigger myself about my skills that I have gained prior coming to GCU and how far I have improved my attributes. In this case , prior coming in Uk 🇬🇧 I have got some kind of achievement such as my bachelor degree in nursing, kinda good at team work, got award as good RJ of the year … But during this PDP session group discussion I realise I had lot of improvement such as in communicating with people, sharing views, priotizing individuals and to my surprise I too was able to listen 👂 more patiently than before… As during this session I listen quite effectively to my group and grasp their experiences as well….👨‍🎓 Most interestingly apart from that our discussion too directed towards religious parameter where one of my group mate asked the reason behind why some of the cultural background people did not eat pork 🍖????? where one of us stated why some religions believe pork as a dirty animals and it eats whatever it got… during this time all of us gives our own views… However, at last of this discussion one of our group mate who is vet doc back home clarified more clearly that “Pigs are not nasty 🤢 to eat , they eat for bodily thermodynamics and pork is the most intelligent 🤓 animals as well”.. Wow 😮 it too was shocking for me because I never knew so much about it.. Moreover, through this discussion I realise we all are confident enough to share the knowledge we have got and also we all are good at addressing things in different way… So, without this group session I might not got chance to realise my achievement as well as skills developed during my study at GCU ⏰👨‍🎓.. After talk I realise I am kinda poor at managing my time and got chances how my fellow group are managing their time..

So, overall I believe this kind of PDP session makes us more aware, confidence and act as a stress relieve therapy among 👩‍🎓students…

Self-realisation

Happy and tensed faces I could see around me at GCU. I think most of are in under stressed as exams are knocking at our door 🚪, trying to make us aware to work hard as we are in week 5 already….However , I can feel that force as November had already welcomed us with data analysis 3 hours examination for pathophysiology module. After data analysis we were just having a discussion regarding upcoming presentation with our classmates. And I was due to go and attend my first meeting as a class representative.On the same time we got to know some of our module part assessment results were out. I felt something is squeezing my stomach inside as I always scared to see the marks but I cross my finger with hope that I have got good marks. < em>My lovely friends were trying to see their marks as it has been posted in our module page, my heart was pumping like anything , I see mine then I feel quite bad because the marks I saw next to my student 👨‍🎓 number was quite poor for me and crossing finger doesn’t help either where my friends were quite happy to get flying marks.However, at the moment I control my emotions as I don’t wanna get reflected among them. I checked my email got to see mail from my lecturer 👨‍🏫 as she wants to discuss about my performance on that objective test which I haven’t done quite well. Then with heavy heart ❣ with bit nervousness I went and see her.. I-found her quite approachable , she explained me well what are my weaknesses . I felt quite satisfied but still my heart neither mind was ready to accept it.

After that I rush to my accommodation as I was quite tensed because that marks was still hovering me around passing me the sense of looser.That’s makes me think once again what happen, what did I do during preparation and in future what should I do to improve it.. at the very moment you won’t believe strong cup a ☕️ and cold weather bounce my mind to think over again and again. As I know I am not that bad to get those naughty marks 😂 .Then I realise, at that preparation phase I was bit more confident about the examination because I thought 💭 it was just the objective test where we just have to select the either a, b or c and I have not given my 💯 %. Secondly , my time management was not good either because I try to wrap up everything in 5 days .. So, from this examination I didn’t fall but I think it had raised me up yes obviously not with mark but with self realisation. So, in upcoming days I am trying to study 📖 more seriously and I won’t ignore any my module assessment even it is objective test or essay or presentation.

So, guys time ⌚️and positive attitude is quite important. Think 💭 on time⏰ and act accordingly for success. It is not far , I think it’s just our negative thinking or sometimes over confidence which kicks us out …❤️❤️