Life in Beijing...

Hey there everybody!
It's been ages since I've laid my hands on a computer keyboard! Although the net cafe here in school charges only 3 yuan for a half hour of use, still I still tend to not go online.

Anyways, we just finished with our midterm exams today. We had exams in two subjects, speech and qing du(sort of like our hua bun in high school). I got a grade of 79 in speech. We had the written test in qing du today so I still don't know the results. All I know know is I have at least one mistake.

I've got loads of stories to tell about my experience here. But one stands out from all the rest...I've got this rommmate who is oh so weird. She doesn't talk (as in it's like talking to the wall). She looks like a member of the addams family, except that her skin tone is like Pocahontas'. I've given up talking to her by the end of our first week here. Anyways, her mother called the other day, and screamed at me, Candee and our other dormmates...We have no idea why...Although she was complaining at why we talk to her daughter and she feels "nagpplastikan lang kami"....and she claims that their family is very influential, that they own 3 franchise outlets of a popular fastfood chain in Manila, and they own this big hospital in Greenhills(I think,I'm bad with locations)...Is her mother trying to scare us into befriending her daughter? The mother is an ob-gyne(Dra. Liao) by profession. Which probably means that they pay a lot of attention to hygiene, but this is not the case, the little princess is always mixing the dishes with her chopsticks searching for who-knows-what. There are a lot more stories about her...I've been observing her, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm not going to try communicating her again, lest her mom calls and screams at us again. It's better to avoid trouble.

I've got to go...30 minutes are up. Tell you guys more when I come online again.

Take care everybody!

mixed emotions again

We're leaving for Beijing tomorrow morning. I'm not sure what I'm feeling right now...I feel kinda sick (sine last night), must have been something I ate. I feel better now, although I still get this feeling of being dehydrated even when I drink more than the necessary 8 glasses of H2O a day.

I'm excited, yet scared of what is awaiting us in Beijing. I saw the dorm rooms on the school website. Its not exactly a room in a 5 star hotel, but it looks livable. I just hope that I don't get sick(ie allergy, diarhea, flu,etc) during the trip... If the truth be told, my dads even more scared than us. He keeps on giving us these reminders of what to do and what not to. typical parent...

We're not allowed to bring any personal gadgets...Waaaah! I'm going to miss my laptop! and adobe photoshop and illustrator, etc etc.


Actually, I've been thinking, if Candee and I survive this trip unscathed, does this mean that I get to go to YVR after the trip? I'd like to go back to studying again...hehehe