Life Across the Striat
It's like clockwork how my emotions run here. I am happiest by Sunday and extremely upset by Monday. I have never been this way before. Some things change you for the better but this change in me is not so great. They say that the weather is supposed to be good in the fall, but I am still waiting. It is tiring to walk up and down this mountain everyday and then having to walk up the 4 floors to my room. Asia is supposed to be the land of convenience but I guess that philosophy may not have been thought of too strongly here. Life was not very convenient in America too and in fact I would say it's even less convenient. But where the bonuses come in for America is that I can have my TV, PS3 and my own space there. I miss America and its freedoms.
Chinese class progressed last week but then I am still having trouble getting into the class setting for this. I really REALLY want one on one time ONLY! But the program insists on having me take these damn classes. I hate the class and honestly I don't recommend the classes at NCCU to anyone. You really want to study Chinese hard, then go to another school IN Taipei. Not only are those schools more convenient, but maybe, just maybe, they will be of better quality. The butchered Chinese accents and the many awkward sounds; I am so sick of them that I just want to stay in my dorm and never go back. I don't understand why I am so frustrated beyond this. Maybe I just miss home too much and nothing goes my way here. :(
The big story of the week, however, was the hurricane that came along. Not really much to talk about with that one other than the fact that it occurred on the same weekend that students were to move in the dorm. These rooms are quite filthy but these are the newest so it could be worse. People flocked in through the winds and rain to get their kids situated in their rooms before returning home for the Mid-Autumn Festival. I guess there really were no festivities due to this storm. What a big disappointment. Even more disappointing was the fact that getting food in the cafeteria began to take way too long. What was once a 5-minute wait became 30 minutes. God I am so hungry now. I wonder what I will go down there and find.
By the way my Chinese teacher thinks that I am not able to express myself in Chinese. Ha. Maybe if I expressed myself in those papers I might make some people unhappy. I write what I write and that is all I mean to write, thank you very much. I am sick of people criticizing the hell out of me. As time goes on I am becoming more and more unsatisfied with myself and pissed off with the authority around me. I am so used to be my own boss that with all these people telling me what to do now I feel like I must fight it. Affiliated programs like this are not my cup of tea it seems. At least I know this for next time. How is this for expression?