today is the first day of BES 2100......

old lecturer, old friends, and one old work (blogging which is similar to journal that we already did in BES 1100) but the rest is new.

Generally it seems BES2100 tends to make us practice more in some certain situations than in BES 1100 which we focused more on the way of writing and managing collected information. i may be wrong, but at least that was the first impression that i got about BES 2100, after Mrs Suma's introduction.

the class has the largest amount of students i have ever attempted. although there are some of them never had BES 1100 before, still I think they will do well. Maybe it is one of advantages of having a big class, that you can find help and support easier?

there are 2 things that surprised me the most: knowing that we will have to learn and practice negotiation; and that instead of typing journals and then hand out the hard copy, we suppose to blog it. this is the first time i have tried it.

though I did practice normal conversation and talking in front of lectures when I was taking English courses, practicing negotiation seriously feels just like a eloquence competition to me.


the second one: blogging. Hard to explain exactly how I find it surprising but maybe the closest way is that I never thought that in a business course, people will actually give a chance for blog - a very social "tool" nowadays. some one said blog is for gays and girls only, I would like to strongly object that. Since a few years back, blog has become the fastest and the most appreciated kind of information distribution among people. Bloggers also got promoted and developed themselves. Blog is not only the diary but also the way you keep contact to the Net world, share your information and get feedback. As i have known so many books were published that actually taken from blogs, so many talents were found in blogs, so many news were distributed in blogs, faster and hotter than any magazine or TV shows. it even becomes a real tool in politics when many presidents and government in the world have had their own blogs, to erase the gaps between government and people.

that's why it shocked me much that a business course will actually give a way for blogs. although it's just not more than sending emails, still it is really a new thing, at least to me.

we started doing survey about our major part that we can take in a group as a group member. I got PLANT after all. to be honest I feel a bit odd because the description about PLANT is such egoist, i myself prefer to be a TEAM BUILDER though, better be the helpful one than the "good for only 1 time". I don't know if I made any wrong choice or actually I didn't realise myself an egotist? well anyway what pointed out already did, I just wonder how the group will be set.

end of the day, and I'm not blog-addicted, but I can say one of quite rare times, I actually do enjoy taking time to type so many words for studying