Looking forward

to a week-long Labour Day holidays.

I'm not doing much though, but am definitely looking forward to catching up with some rest and relaxation. Some letter-writing, some diary-updating and loads of studying. Oh, also to a short retreat to recharge myself. Not so sure if I'm a good example of a typical exchange student. I do seem to be the slackest (in terms of academia) compared to the rest of the exchange students here in China. Like Wanch commented, I seem to do just about every other thing except studying. Bah, crossing my fingers and praying that I'll make it through the Chinese education system!

Great day so far. I went to the primary school for migrant children as usual. The school happened to take half day off because of a parent-teacher meeting in the afternoon. I was rather thankful for that actually, because I have yet to recharge from the 2 week madness and hanging out with young children can be rather tiring, albeit fulfilling. Here are some photos of the sweeties I hang out every Monday. :)










This is Feifei, who is in kindergarten









Children on the round-a-about.



More photos at my flickr account.

小情歌

unpredictable things

Getting a little discouraged with things that are happening. I'll keep praying for God to work miracles for only He is in control now.

my english is deproving...

And my Mandarin doesn't seem to be improving either. So I just end up losing a language and gaining quite nothing esle.

Shuqiu and I made this particular observation during our Forensic Science lecture yesterday morning when the lecturer showed us a 解剖video, which was by the way the most disgusting video I have seen in my entire life, up till now at least.

Well we both knew that 解剖is something like cutting up a corpse and finding evidence but we simply didn't know the English word for it so we leaned over to Xiaowei and asked her. She gave helpful suggestions like urm dissect? cut up? Until we finally got to the word autopsy, followed by a gasp of sudden realisation.

But the sad thing is that I still find a lack of interest in seriously learning and refining my command of the language. But God has brought me to China, of all places. Yet I still find myself yearning for greener pastures and comfortable surroundings and things I'm really interested in, that really mean something to me. Not quite all these, at least...not yet...

...and I simply have to re-emphasise on the grossness of the video, even though the forensic scientist was really skilled and precise, it was just not fun to watch...or remember the images. Sawing and hammering to crack the skull to obtain the brains is still rather aesthetically disagreeable for me to accept. *gulp*

Finally getting some rest today after a hectic two or three weeks. I'll upload pictures and write about our little adventure down south to Jiangsu when I have the time and looking forward to another exciting week with Joel, Beth, Heather and Hannah who are visiting tomorrow night! :) I fear that I shall start missing home again when they arrive, for I have been busy enjoying myself ever since I moved to the city.