Wednesday was the deadline for final registration (which meant little to me as I hadn't made any changes since the initial registration), as well as the day of my last "catch-up" test. These are the ones that help to understand where my strengths and weaknesses are at this stage, which is a bit strange as earlier in the day I'd had a review based on the results of the ones I've already taken. In between these two occasions, though, I had a rare bout of socialising - was approached by some people from the Friends of International Students group and had a pleasant chat with them for a while.
In the afternoon an "Anti-Disaster Drill" was held for residents of the dorms. Unfortunately because of the test I missed the first part, but I imagine it was just something along the lines of "calmly evacuate the building." Everyone walked to a green area on the campus where a fireman gave us a talk about safety, and then we practised procedure for putting out a fire! A real fire was not actually provided - just wooden boards with pictures of fire on them, but we got to handle a fire extinguisher and shout "Kaji da!" ("Fire!" - That's what it says in the title) I was quite impressed with this exercise - although one may think that sort of thing is common sense, it was good to feel that the University wanted to make sure we'd be properly prepared if anything should happen. A far cry from three-plus fire alarms a day in the first few weeks at Dinwiddy!
