Tuesday, October 27, 2009

argh

Posted by 雯雯 at 3:21 PM 2 comments
those are my true feelings

Monday, October 26, 2009

PICTURES HERE

Posted by 雯雯 at 11:11 AM 0 comments
no not really, but there are lot's of them here.

Friday, October 16, 2009

A Hong Kong weekend!

Posted by 雯雯 at 11:23 AM 1 comments
Yesssss, yet another Friday has come! I'm looking forward to the weekend as always, and I just got a bunch of sweet language books and dictionaries to keep me busy. HOWEVER!
Those will have to wait. A rule I try to live by here (which I just now broke) is work first, play later. I've found that if I don't at least TRY to follow that rule, I will crash and burn once school comes. As always here in Hong Kong, and something that is different from what I had in Norway, I get a larger amount of homework to do during the weekends than in the week itself.
The homework I know I have to do this weekend is as follows (not counting what I don't know about, but that will come and bite me on my ass on Monday):
English -
* Songs and Poems - L1, L2, L3 5, 7, 5 (God knows what this is, I wrote it down a long time ago)
* An essay about Norway (wheee)
* Upstream Workbook p. 4-9 (my English workbook)
* Webboard responses to presentations (Webboard is a kind of forum our school uses to post homework and such, and we're in a period of presentations in English class now, so the teacher'll post a couple of questions on webboard, and we have to answer!)
* Engbuilder (English builder is basically an internet site where you do small question thingies about an audio clip you hear at the start of the excercise. It takes a long time!)

Biology -
* Answer a couple of quizes on the e-learning platform (basically a site filled with quizes, in this case about stuff in biology. I'm lagging a bit behind here, so I have to do some extra ones)
* Worksheat about the nervous system

History -
* Answer the questions on the sheet of paper about the Hungarian uprising during the Cold War

Mathematics -
* Excercise 3E 17, 19 and 20 (this is HARD STUFF)
* Finish the old exam questions on the worksheet

Chemistry -
* Download and print out the notes for chapter 25 (FINALLY something in chemistry that I know what is, namely organic chemistry! I even got 100% when we had a test about it in Norway too, but I'm sure these Hong Kong people manage to make that incomprehensible before long...)

Religious studies -
* Do the assignments (three questions about ... stuff)

Chinese as a second language -
* Prepare for the oral test (eep)
* Learn the tongue twister (basically saying four, ten and is in different orders, as the three sound much the same)

In addition to this, I really need to pick up my Hong Kong bank card. I also have two dancing lessons tomorrow, and an oil painting class today, plus, Sunday will be the family day!

I also have a box full of weird stuff to send home to Norway (PRESENTS GALORE!), some letters to write, postcards to write and send and probably something else that I've forgotten too...

So my Japanese books will have to wait ;_;

Other than that, I've been pretty tired lately. Stumbling and such. The other day, I stumbled two times in the MTR, and then once again at school. I even lost all my stuff and scabbed my knee. SADPANDA!

I'm also starting to enjoy school. My class is full of really nice girls, and it's so hard, because I want to go to lunch with every single one of them (but NO restaurant or food place has that much room). Lunch is always enjoyable.
I also had a history test today. I failed very badly, I think, probably left out a lot of important stuff, which is sad... I do like history.

Other than that, I'm slowly understanding more and more Cantonese, and well, I've got people all around me who are nice and will teach me. I do have a problem though, and that is that at the moment, I am learning Cantonese, Mandarin AND Japanese. I'm pretty sure I've bit over more than I can chew, especially if you put all this together with the fact that my days are pretty much filled up with school and other extra activities. Phew. I'm pretty sure that I'll be so surprised about how much time I have when I come back to Norway!

The weather here is getting colder too, so I'm enjoying myself more and more. I've even got a downy! It's not a proper downy (and it's still Norwegian summer temperatures here), but it's pretty close.

That's all I can think of for the moment, back to... whatever I was going to do before I started blogging here..

- HMM

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Yawn

Posted by 雯雯 at 9:12 AM 2 comments
Evening, afternoon, all that shiz.

I'm currently relaxing in the school's library during one of my few free lessons. (My other classmates are currently studying either French or Chinese).
I thought I'd give a small, brief, whatchamacallit on what's going on, 'cause doing that is waaay better than studying here (even though I know I should be doing that)!

I have currently started doing several activities after school. Firstly, piano lessons, of course. I'm a real novice, and I very much enjoy playing anyway! The piano teacher comes to our flat every Saturday, though it sometimes gets postponed due to... stuff.
I'm also joining my school's oriental dance team (making me a member of three different clubs here... hmm, I wonder if I should beg the Japanese club to let me join them too..). Anyways, their practices are on Saturdays as well, though they haven't started yet.
My host sister and I have also made a deal; I attend an activity she wants to do with her, and she comes with me to something I want to do, so in the end, we have settled on oil painting and judo. I personally see that as a great thing, since the oil painting classes on Fridays are great (relaxing music and general environment, nice teachers, you get to sit and paint..), and since I do love judo and now get to do it with someone my age, size and level -w-

In addition to these activities, I also try to keep up with the school work (though it's getting increasingly hard!). The problem subjects, as of yet, are chemistry and Chinese as a second language, chemistry because I'm totally ignorant as to what the hell all those letters mean, and Chinese as a second language... because it's way above my Chinese levels, let's just leave it at that. History, on the other hand, is incredibly fun, biology and math are livable, along with geography. (And who can't love art and P.E.?!?). Credit must also be given to all my teachers, who are wonderful and nice, the whole bunch! School here would be so much less bearable without them!

eeeeek piano lesson today <3
judo tomorrow <3 (also pig dissection and quiz, but that's no fun)
nothing cool on thursday...
come friday and there's oil painting, followed by a weekend filled with homework, dancing, more piano and family activites.

aaaaah busy life, I wonder if I'll get used to it?

-HMM
 

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