Sunday, December 6, 2009

Even more Christmas!

Posted by 雯雯 at 11:22 AM 2 comments
I'm feeling Christmas'y. For the moment at least. It's not like Hong Kong is giving me lots of holiday spirit (something that I'd always be bursting with in Norway at this time). The sad fact is that, despite all the cookies and cake they have over here, there's NO gingerbread cookies, they don't have television Christmas calendars, they clearly don't have space or the right type of trees for Christmas trees... One thing I do have access to here, though, is Christmas songs! I'm currently listening to Norwegian ones, and I feel the Christmas feeling right now!

Other than that, I also caught myself in listening to Chinese (both Mandarin/Putonghua and Cantonese) songs yesterday and thinking "Wow, these languages are so pretty..."
I feel this strong urge to learn them even more now, but I just don't know what I'm supposed to use it for back home in Norway...

Today was a very quiet day, I mostly stayed at home and relaxed. It was great, actually, once in a while to slack like that.

Christmaschristmaschristmaschristmas...

HMM

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Christmas and exams

Posted by 雯雯 at 10:03 AM 0 comments
Today I'm trying something new. I won't tell you what it is. Just know that I'm doing... it.

Things are becoming slower now... kind of. Well, for me at least. Seeing as exams are next week, the homework load is all but gone, and because I'm not taking the exams (instead, I'll be working on the project or something similar in the school library), I don't feel the stress of exams either. I'll be trying to seize that opportunity to brush up on my practical language skills, allthough I'll probably end up just surfing Facebook on the school computers...
I do have some work to do, but I just can't get myself to do it.

Other than that, Christmas is very different in Hong Kong from Norway, despite me attending a catholic school. I've tried to Christmas it a little up though, so I'm humming Norwegian Christmas songs, and I even made a Christmas calendar for each of my sisters, the type where you have a little present every day. I think they're appreciating it, allthough the gifts are mostly small ones that don't necessarily have any use...

It'll be weird with no Christmas tree and Christmas presents this year, but yaknow, it's all a new experience. I'm so happy that my parents decided to let me come here this year, and I feel like what I've experienced so far is only a fraction of what I'll get to see as the year progresses.

-HMM
 

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