Sunday, April 25, 2010

Slow Sundays

Posted by 雯雯 at 9:35 AM 0 comments
I've come to love the slow Sundays that I get to have here in Hong Kong once in a blue moon. They follow the same pattern, I'll get up at a reasonable time (after 8, before 10), and have a slow breakfast while the others are still sleeping. Then I'll finish off my homework before I have all the time in the world. Well, at least, I'll have all the time until two o' clock, when we usually get lunch. After that, my host parents might have business, and I might be able to continue hea'ing* the rest of the day.

They're quite relaxing, so I hope they continue! Now I am going to relax... then finish off my studying and pack my school bags. Aaaaah I love relaxing Sundays :>

-HMM

*hea'ing: in Cantonese, hea is the action of basically just doing nothing. Kind of. x_x

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Dying in the heat

Posted by 雯雯 at 1:45 PM 0 comments
*wipes forehead*
Summer is starting to hit in (at least for a Norwegian such as myself), and the humidity is crazy! To illustrate, I accidentally got my math papers wet last Saturday, and after lying quiet to dry they're still moist. It's crazy shit.

Other than that, I'm going home so soon that AFS have already announced the end-of-stay orientation, and what joy, every country needs to hold a seven-minute presentation in Cantonese about what they've learnt and gained this year! Eirik, the other Norwegian exchange student, and me aren't the most fluent in Cantonese to put it mildly. Yes, I've been learning a lot these past weeks, but there's a long way to go from "You can't puke in the MTR station!" to "I have learned a lot about cultural differences, and about the way Chinese people think and act........."
We've sent a mail to AFS asking them nicely if we can hold said presentation in English, however, I don't think they'll allow us to.

It's not that Cantonese is an incredibly useful language, unless you're going to Hong Kong (which I doubt I will in the near future), though that shouldn't suggest that I don't like learning it. My limited mastery of Cantonese will be one of my random skills, and if anyone asks me I'll very gladly teach them how to say obscene things (it seems those are the things that stick the most, so when people get me tongue-tied I usually retort with a "trip and fall down" or "you wanna squeeze my boobs, right?")

Until next time!

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Time flies ;o

Posted by 雯雯 at 2:27 PM 2 comments
It's been a while since the last time I posted anything here, and it's also rather weird to think that I've already been here for over six months, and that I have less than three months to go. It doesn't exactly feel like I've been here for a shorter period time, or for a longer period or time. It simply feels like I've fallen out of time, and that like I'm living someone else's life all together.

All though my Chinese is not at all as good as it should be, I din't feel like the time I've spent here has been a waste... somehow. I've gotten to see and experience many things that I would've had no chance to do in Norway, and there's something else too, that I can't put my finger on, that makes it feel like it's all been worth it.

This will be disappointing to my mother, but I really feel like I will want to go back to Asia later, at some point, to learn more. I might need some time in Norway first though, to flush the oil and McDonalds out of my system. But I definitely want to return here, after seeing Hong Kong, Taiwan, and parts of China and Japan. I want to learn more languages, and I want to communicate more with the people.

Heh, I'm writing as if I'm leaving now, which is not true. I returned from China yesterday (it was an awesome trip, I really felt like a celebrity too, at the schools we visited. People wanted to take pictures with me, with all of us, in fact. Come come, take pictures with the freaks from the west!), and I will have one agonizing month of tests and large amounts of homework before exams start. And exams are a good thing for me, since I'm not taking them. I'll have lots of time to practice my Cantonese! After that, nothing will happen in school, and I will return home around the 29th of June. All though I love it here in many ways, I am looking forward to going home and just relaxing with my glass with tap water.

STAY SAFE
 

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