Over My Head

June 15, 2008

Originally Written on 10th June 2008

Well it’s the 10th today and I am surprised that despite what I wrote in my last post I am still on the hard slog, hardly relieved from my University duties. As I said last time I had a bit of a sore throat which kept me at bay from doing much work. That weekend I spent mostly on mastering my Chinese presentation and my Grandpa’s surprise 70th in which I was the photographer. I took some good shots and should be pleased.

My presentation went okay, I was surprised at how basic a good majority of the presentations were, they were either quite basic (subject + verb + object sentences!) or quite colloqial. I suspect that the colloqial ones were that way due to the student’s being of Chinese decent or something like that. Whatever the case it was above the vocab and grammar of the class.

I was really quite surprised at how simple some of the speeches were. I’m not attempting to gloat or talk myself up as some kind of hero. But I had genuinely led myself to believe that our class was capable of more than that.

In anycase, I had a meet and greet exchange function on Wednesday night at some bar in town. The event ran smoothly and I guess I enjoyed myself as much you can enjoy yourself at these sorts of functions. You know, the sort that they force new employees of a business to endure to build up team working skills. Replace team work with cultural skills though.

On Friday I went down to my Chinese friend’s place for a good portion of the day to run through some music and exercises.

The last few days have all been study orientated with the plan on making a clearing in the scrub for a few self indulgent days with Metal Gear Solid 4. I spent most of the prior 3 days doing a 101 on Marketing which really wore me down. Today (Tuesday) I rewrote a major assignment which I hope that I’ll be able to post up on the blog under a new segment in due time.

I have 2 weeks until my final two exams, I cannot wait until they are completed as the rest of the year will be located in ShangHai void of anything really troublesome. I just hope that I get my approval package soon as I need to apply for a Chinese Visa and I’m not sure how long that will take…