“You stand in your own light. Make it shine.”

That was the sentence I got from my fortune cookies today! Finally had lunch in the dining hall as it’s UCONN open house and I can use my husky credit to have my meals. Lunch is superb. I am so gonna get fat! Its buffet eat-all-you can style and there are soooooo many different cuisines, all free flow! I took soup and head straight to the international section where they serve rice. Rice! Haven been eating rice until today. Food for the past days were wraps and sandwiches. Got so tired of it now, Chinese food is definitely a welcome. Anyway, there are freeflow of ice-cream in the hall too! I had softee ice cream where I just pulled down the hand bar and contain as much ice cream as I want to! But I wasn’t too greedy on the ice cream though, still remember the need for self-control…..but I think I am losing the perseverance really soon. D:

Later the day, we went to the Convocation in Harry A. Gampel Pavilion and I am so IMPRESSED. The NUS Augmentation that I have attended when I was in Year 1 seems to be such a small scale as compared to UCONN’s. When the file of Deans walked out to the center of the hall, there are marching band to play the music LIVE! There was also a female vocal performer who sings the America National Anthem and she sang it with so much grace, it’s almost like a performance. This Convocation delivers sprites, school pride and sincerity for its’ audience, I kindda video taped some portion of the process. But shall post it up another time.

The BBQ after Convocation is simply just huge. It’s a mage size event which cater food for the few thousands people, we had to queue for one hour plus! Was so hungry by the time, we are just happy to eat more. To think that each of us can have got 2 big patties of meat and a large sausage with free flow of cheese and lettuce and 2 breads, you can guess UCONN is pretty rich over there, I bet in NUS, you have gotta pay for anything.

I talked to Don, this guy who is a freshman local this year and we kindda share talks about our own university. Like how in Singapore, how student in the education system went through much filtration before making to the Uni. I learn from him that Uconn is actually a rather prestigious school, being the top 5 Public University in the State and it is not easy to get it and the basketball team is really good! Apparently, if you talk about Uconn basketball team, people know ”Oh , the Uconn huskies!” It’s pretty cool~ the school spirit

The day ended with a night of Ice Cream Social. It’s really a cool event where there are free ice creams and people (Like the entire school?) nearly gather for the free ice cream and had socializing at the same time. Just grab and go, no need to check ID or whatever verification. We were eating in the cold, the weather is really cold at night, but imagine hundreds of people ALL eating ice cream in the square. If there is anything to round up the excellence, it’s the quality of Ice cream. Make from UCONN dairy bar, it’s so fresh, good and smooth! I tried strawberry, chocolate chips and MINT !!!! ahhahaha so happy to eat mint in the end! 3 big cups! But well, I will work out more tmr~

It’s a happy, fun and filling day.