3/17/11

Howdy!  So some time has gone by!  As I said before, I am doing only a couple blogs per week.  I just don’t think people want to hear about when I am bushing my teeth etc.  lol Boring right?  If I am forgetting to mention something?  Let me know!

Tianqinqin (Liyue’s Boyfriend) is over, he was cooking for Liyue… a sigh, boys are useful sometimes =) lol  He made 葱油饼 onion-oil-pancake.  Literally, just onions (scallions), flour, egg, water salt mixed together, and fried in peanut oil.  They’re not bad!  I only had a little bit cuz I want to stay slim and trim. Not easy to do with so much oil~  Oh well it is fun.  I was making fun of him… “Oh my gosh!!! The chu-shi 厨师 (chef)is here!!! Yaaayy!!”  Despite my efforts to just eat a little bit, my roommate kept taking little bites and feeding them to me lol.  She is trying to take care of me. 

So, I tried to go to 古筝 guzheng practice today, but nobody was there!  Lol  I had scheduled my practice times for everyday this week.  (This happened Monday)  Anyways, that happens a lot, this cancelling class randomly business.  For example, me and Natalie were on our way to 公共关系class, we sit there for about 15 minutes, where is everybody? We wonder… okay so after the 15 minute grace period was over… we left.  As we are walking on the road, we spot 祁老师, Professor Qi.  “Oh Hi Professor Qi!  No class today?” He says, “Oh yeah, I had a meeting!”  Oh… right, you had a meeting?  Right, so class obviously was cancelled.  LOL no emails… no notices… no nothing… haha, this definitely counts as a cultural difference.

Today I was busy working on my 个人简历 ~ My resume.  I started working on it now (yes very early. I know that we are going to have finding an internship, but I still, I feel that I have better chances if I pounce on any opportunity I may run into. 

Just five minutes ago I was watching a film made in the 50’s about the Korean war… I am no history buff, but it is unavoidable…  If I want to understand what’s going on in most of my Journalism classes, I need to know history.  I feel that Journalism is just a flash recording of history… of course it can be swayed, diluted, censored, attacking… etc. etc. but really, it is recording an event according to someone, -so I ought to brush up on the history.

I am starting to not like Wednesdays, HSK class is pretty nerve racking for me.  The teacher is intense.  Tones-Tones-Tones… they are the bane of my Chinese existence.  I have been using my time with LiYue’s tutoring to read aloud and improve my tones.  I know I’ve made lots of improvement since I’ve started, but still… ugh it is painful when the HSK teacher calls on you, makes you read, tells everyone (it is not only I going thru this, everyone does) this is where you are bad… haha oh well, >=(  work harder... 

This weekend I look forward to reading books!  So exciting!  Other than that, my friend from Ghana (Adam) invited me over for Peanut Butter soup, but honestly, even though I like peanut butter, I can’t see myself coming to the point of loving it so much that I drink it as a soup…  X_X Yeaaahhh I’d rather not…. There’s a thousand other Chinese foods I’d rather eat than peanut butter soup, maybe I won’t be feeling well this weekend.  I’ll have to think up some kind of  病.  Anyways I’m getting vibes from that dude that I’d also rather not encourage. ..I’d rather eat more of Tianqinqin’s onion pancake!

I’m missing all of you!  Soooo much!          <3  Caity