Hello My Friend, We Meet Again

February 10, 2009

10th Feburary 2009

Today I wanted to talk about one of my recent habbits that I’ve started to form since I got home. I find that I go to bed later and wake up later in the day. This is fine since I never really have any obligations the next day. I’ve slipped into this habbit because late at night is the most appropriate time that I can chat to my Chinese friends online. There is a 2.5hr time difference between Adelaide and Shanghai which means that the time when I usually go to bed is the ideal time to chat with my friends in Shanghai.

I did this a lot in China, spending 3-4hrs each night, most nights chatting to my friends that I’d met previously that day. Now even though I’m back home, I can keep this tradition up and its quite warming to do so, since I miss my friends dearly.

While I’m chatting I usually do other busy work tasks in the background which involve some sort of practice, so the chatting part is a great motivator to get me back on the language treadmill again. In fact, considering that many of my friends went back for the holidays and I don’t really have anyone to physically meet and practice, it’s ideal.

I also need to see how I go phoning my friends as well. That’ll come in due time.