Dear Mom ( Read more... )

i haven't cried like i did today in a long time ( Read more... )

My parents went to talk to the college counselor today, and apparently she told them that I was "charming". Now, if I could only get girls to say the same thing...

學如逆水行舟，不進則退.

Well, I'm back. I ended up getting 82/90 on my spoken Chinese "test" and 87/100 on the reading test. My friends and I all wore Polos and ties to the graduation dinner, but we just finished having lunch at 4:30 and the dinner was at 5, so we wasted a lot of food, most of it good. In the two days after the program ended, my dad and I bought a ( Read more... )

Yeah...so my program at BLCU is basically over now. I have my certificate, but I don't know my grades because I skipped the first class today, so I have to wait until the graduation ceremony tonight to find out. My tests went okay, but not well. I have 3 days left before I go home.

I have 2 final exams on Tuesday, and then my program here ends on Wednesday. It seems so soon. I leave China on the 30th.

Aight...so this weekend, 72 people from the program (among which were me and all my friends) took a trip to Datong and Inner Mongolia (which is not actually in Mongolia, but is the part of China that borders Mongolia, so it's only "inner" to Chinese people). We left at 10 PM Friday, took a bus from the university to Beijing West Train Station, and ( Read more... )

Yeah...so my birthday was pretty good. The debate was extremely dumb. A couple of the people didn't even understand what they were supposed to debate. 他妈的老外。I actually ended up being on the pro side, though, so my job was a little easier, despite the fact that I couldn't articulate my ideas. In the evening, my dad and my grandparents (on his ( Read more... )

D class is definitely too hard for me. C class is extremely easy, though. Why does there have to be such a huge gap in between? My roommate forgot to set the alarm clock last night, and he woke up at 8 and then woke me up, and I figured that I might as well miss the first class since it was already starting and I was too lazy to get up. So I ( Read more... )