MAKING FRIENDS

Hello! My name is Novenna Amanda Binti Lorensius Amabajo with matric number 67044. People used to call me Nov, but right now I prefer Amanda because I find that it is hard for some people to remember ‘Novenna’. Actually, I am from Sabah but my family and I moved to Kuching during 2010. I used to stay apart from my parents since I was in form 1. And to be very honest, I did not expect to get UNIMAS as it was not my first five choices in UPU. UNIMAS was located at the 7^th place. I was so shocked because, if possible I want a university that is not in Sarawak, especially UNIMAS. However, my parents were happy that I got UNIMAS because they really wanted me to be near to them.  

This picture was taken when I was hanging out with my new friends in UNIMAS.

At first, it was hard for me to accept that I will be going to UNIMAS. I thought that I have no friends. Because when I was in matriculation, I did not have many friends. And most of my best friends enter UMS. I was very happy to find out that one of my classmate’s enters UNIMAS and both of us will be in the same course. However, I am not that close with this classmate because I did not really like to talk much and I am a bit worried about it.

I realised that both of us can be a good friends after being together for almost every time after MAP. During MAP, it was hard for us to meet each other because I was joining choir for MRB. Talking about choir, I met more new friends and I can say that almost all of them were from Sabah. And by joining choir, I really hope that I will talk more with people and not going to seclude myself from people anymore. Because I realise that in counselling I need to talk more. And, I did it!

                Moving on for the first week of class, before entering Dr Fa class, we had a few lectures and I almost gave up on counselling. To me, it was hard to accept because this is not my first choice and I also decided that this course was not fun from the start. However, on 20^th September 2018, I felt very happy to enter Dr Fa class. This is because she was able to make me felt comfortable. She is a very caring person towards her students. She even try to make everyone participates in class by asking them to tell our own strength. At first, the class was very quiet but she managed to make us talk by asking us more questions and keep smiling.

   I hope that this change on me could stay as I will be learning counselling for 4 years.