After talking to Fanny all night, I slept until four and didn’t get out of bed until five. I was still sleepy when I got up and probably could have slept for a few more hours. I pretty much did nothing but waste time and then do homework. I prepared my presentation for the second part of my Chinese midterm and memorized it before plopping back on my bed.
November 21, 2009
10/15/2009 – Day 54 – Interviewing Chinese students
Exciting day! We got to interview ECNU students today for our Chinese midterm! As a Chinese person who can’t speak Mandarin, I was fully prepared to say I was Japanese or Korean in order to not look like a complete fool. OK, maybe not Japanese. Don’t know how they’d react to that. Fortunately, it wasn’t that bad. The girl I interviewed gave me short and simple answers (like “eat cake”). She even complimented my Chinese!
Since I didn’t finish my definitions for Law the night before, I scrambled to finish the other half before Law. Looking up definitions basically became my studying as I finished shortly before class. I had about half an hour to remember everything I looked up. Nice.
10/14/2009 – Day 53 – American Food
Boring classes sums up the first half of the day pretty well. Chinese was boring and Contemporary China was worse. I never thought anyone could make a picture presentation so boring, but the presenter somehow did it. At work, I spent most of my time learning Rails on Ruby (RoR) again since my bosses still weren’t back. Learning how to program in an object-oriented framework is a lot different than learning procedural programming, though it does get me thinking if I should revamp my site using a framework.
After work, instead of studying for Law like I should have been, I went to Mike’s birthday dinner. We ate at a place called Southern Belle that served Southern food. We were sitting outside on the patio, which was delightful since the weather was great. Free popcorn certainly helped too.
November 17, 2009
10/11/2009 – Day 50 – Again, but relieved
The bugs were back again. Was I frightened? Certainly. The prospects of never-go-away bed bugs is certainly not something to laugh at. Luckily, I found a place to submit bug ID requests on this bed bug forum. AND, it was confirmed that they were not bed bugs! They were book lice (or psocids), which are really not lice and aren’t harmful to humans. Unfortunately, waiting for a reply forced me to go to sleep at 5:00 AM and I didn’t wake up until 3:30 PM. Heh.
I did have a lot of work that needed to be done, so I ended up squeezing in Chinese studying and City studying into one night, with a week full of midterms and work looming…