November 30, 2011

First snow of the winter. 

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Last Saturday, I was walking back home with grocery bags and saw a car being parked at a driveway of a nice home. When I saw the driver getting out of the car, I thought myself 'he looks rather familier'. When the man looked at me and I was definitely able to tell by his look that he knew me from somewhere too. There was a few seconds of uneasiness in the atmosphere and both of us were making an eye contact constantly on and off, then I finally shouted "Professor Bunce? You are professor right?". At first, it was hard to recognize my professor outside of the lecture hall and at such an unexpected place, but it was professor Bunce who lectures the 'Geography and Global Processes' course. He after told me that he didn't know my name but recognized my face and the fact that I'm in his first year class. When I heard this, I was quiet amazed that he remembered me from the lecture hall with more than 300 students and recognized me on a street. This totally made my day.

Just today, I went to see professor Meriano during her office hour to ask her about karst formation around Guelph region, to gain some background knowledge before travelling there this weekend. Very surprisingly, the moment I walked into her office, she recognized me and greeted me by name. It also seemed like she was very happy to see me. At first I was a bit confused, but then, I remembered an occasion that happened a month ago in the 'Environmental Hazards' lecture when she asked my name after when I helped her to gather up some survey sheets from the students. The fact that she remembered my name really touched me. During the office hour, She has shown great amount of interest on my trip to Guelph this weekend and I was able to discuss about it in detail for an hour and gained some valuable informations. The professor also asked me to report back to her after the trip, with some photos of karst topography, so that she can consider it as a potential field excursion site for her next semester- second year geomorphology class. + she also asked whether I would like to be part of that field trip and I immediately said yesss.

These little, what might looks like events without any significance, have been really brighten up my days (: