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i've been volunteering as a peer networker at uni orientation for the past three days. basically this means that i run campus tours, serve at barbeques and coffee carts, usher people into halls and walk lost new students to their desired destinations.

it's a a tremendous amount of work and when i get home at the end of a long day i feel like i could just fall flat on my face and sleep through a hurricane. but at the same time, it is SO MUCH FUN. not only have a met a huge group of amazing new people from all faculties across uni, but i also feel a profound sense of actually being useful in the world.

since it's mid year orientation, all the new students are international. i have met hordes of gorgeous europeans and even had yum cha with a group of them, i've attempted to use my long lost french skills on a french canadian and i've spent fifteen minutes listening to an emiratie complain about every aspect of australian culture while i walked him to the library in the rain. as for the indian engineering students, my friends and i try to avoid them because of our inherent fear of receiving marriage proposals in lieu of Permanent Residency visas.

definitely one of the more eye-opening and stimulating experiences of my life.