ok I spent long time writing but because of web connection... its all gone....
I'm not gonna write everything again since its 2 in the morning and I have a flight to go tmr!
I've been reading histories and stuffs about holland and got so excited about going there! Used to travel to Europe when in high school ... two months ... more than 5 countries 10 cities ... but really in a rush and was really an asian style traveling - famous spots pictures and next spot ... lol so guess this time I would do a good quality one! Two weeks in a 16 million population country ... same as in Shanghai ... so funny... Not to mention I'd see Judith and Joppe there! YAY! Its been way too long to see ppl from queens omg this is amazing!
It does feel wierd leaving for two months. I was like kissing Mich on the cheeks and suddenly felt awww this is so sad! Not sure if I can handle the farewell this summer tho... be sure wont be as embarrasing as year ago at queens! oh gosh where am I?!
Anyways, I'd be in Oslo from April 13th to 15th for a national conference and hopefully get my visa to UK done. And I'd finally travel to Lofoten with the girls from end of May till June! Then I'll spend whole June in Scotland traveling and seeing friends from queens! After that two weeks of politics course in London, then would do a placement there for a month! I know this is sooooo exciting!!
Well hopefully every thing like visa would be ok, and so far my 2007 goes really wonderful. hmm... guess I deserve this before my boring final year back in HK! lol
Of course now wish my paper would get proved since I've spent way too much on it.
Alright guys wish all the best to you. I'll check emails and facebook whenever I can although would not be that much! And hope you all have a great great spring break!!!
Love,
Amanda
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
the one with some random updates
Without my laptop I also lost the best time to write throughout whole day. There have been lots of thoughts came across my mind but during last week every time I sat in front of friends' computers and found myself could not concentrate getting them back anymore... well its bad... but as least now I'm here in the library (in NHH though eh eh) and trying to write.
Okay...where should I start... I went to ESN party last thursday which was lots of fun. Although the music was very very commercial but it sort of brought me back to the time in Lan Kwai Fong and north american where were full of usher and black eyed peas. LOL. I finally met Elma and Katherine and thank god they are such a couple of norgegian sweetheart which are not so common in Norwegian population I shall say... hmmm... I am not saying norwegian girls are not sweet... but they probably just have hard shell... like ladies... lol... But I am really glad to meet girls like Ingy and Monica.... they are just so open and so... relaxing...
Anyways, people back home title me as "party girl" which is not very correct depends on which culture I'm being put in. But what's important to me I enjoy drinking and dancing and getting wild once in a while with friends cause I think that is tons of fun and it should be one of human rights as well HAHA... I'm bullshitting....
So... I actually had another fun night on Friday as well with AIESEC ppl. Well we call it an international night cause its basically a potluck...everybody brought their own country food and share... I felt bad cause I only rushed to a chinese restaurant and bought some shrimp crakers...which is absolutely just a minor appetizer in China (ya I had a lot when I was little and its no healthy food). Anyways, I was kindly exposed to waffle with brown cheese as typical norwegian food which is actually very yummy! We were talking and talking...although after a while we were sort of doing stupid stuffs partly cause of beer(and where the hack are those stupid pictures?!) .... Oh I had one of those strong norwegian alcohole... but I forgot the name (could anyone help me rememeber it as starts with an a)... and its really good... for a girl like me prefer being a quick drunker LOL
I love Friday night... and I really really start to love AIESEC.
My paper theme was announced on Friday and it is very very theoriotical... I am having a hard time trying to get some clue about what to write... oh its never fun starting to write a paper! Maybe because its time to write a paper for lots of exchange students, I've been hearing lots of complainments about how crazy norwegian people read. It is true that everything here in school means reading and reading and reading forever. The professor in class would only provide you with a big picture of the references and if you dont read in advance, then lectures are like boring slide shows. And the reading amount is more than "a lot", it is actually "huge" here. So far I have been reading more than 1000 pages but thats still slightly less than half AND that is only the first time skimming through which means I cannot just go to exams reading once of that amount. Erasmus students are so not getting used to this which actually surprised me because I thought it is very traditionally European. But if we talking about the reading amount in scandinavian countries, we should probably notice the rationale behind. Because here people take it for natural that "you are the only one who is responsible for your study and to pass the course/get the knowledge or not is your choice". It is because here as long as you pass 30 credits of your study then you do not need to pay back almost half of the student loan. Plus the grading system is more like 100% on final exams either pass (get a grade other than F) or not pass totally depend on the final shot. So the students are free to do self-study and go to exams.
Here thus brought back me to one of the conversation I had with a local student who had been exchange in UC berkely for whole year. He is rather a fan of North American system since over there everything counts for the final results of your study which me myself have experienced as well. You got the whole course outline and grading system telling you how your knowledge would be accessed based on a gradual process. Assignments, presentations, midterms, group work, final exams.... every little thing would be part of your study which is designed by the instructurer based on his/her experience. It is more like a commercial process which can be fairly efficient, but meanwhile students can just do it strategically if they dont want to pay much effort. Of course it is another "coin with two different side" case not only because everybody does have his/her own way of study but also how education should be responsible for individual would also be different.
Today when I was sitting in the bus, I suddenly had this feeling that "I love this place". Which is awww.... the starting point of feeling bad for leaving in two months. I experienced the same thing emotionally in Canada, at that time when I just started to feel how big the world is and how different culture could be but soon after I need to go back. But this time it is more like when I really really start to think about all those differences and diversities and fall in love with them and of course the people get involved in, I need to go back again.
Dont take me wrong when every time I say "I'm not homesick", it is just because I really do feel everywhere is my home.
Okay...where should I start... I went to ESN party last thursday which was lots of fun. Although the music was very very commercial but it sort of brought me back to the time in Lan Kwai Fong and north american where were full of usher and black eyed peas. LOL. I finally met Elma and Katherine and thank god they are such a couple of norgegian sweetheart which are not so common in Norwegian population I shall say... hmmm... I am not saying norwegian girls are not sweet... but they probably just have hard shell... like ladies... lol... But I am really glad to meet girls like Ingy and Monica.... they are just so open and so... relaxing...
Anyways, people back home title me as "party girl" which is not very correct depends on which culture I'm being put in. But what's important to me I enjoy drinking and dancing and getting wild once in a while with friends cause I think that is tons of fun and it should be one of human rights as well HAHA... I'm bullshitting....
So... I actually had another fun night on Friday as well with AIESEC ppl. Well we call it an international night cause its basically a potluck...everybody brought their own country food and share... I felt bad cause I only rushed to a chinese restaurant and bought some shrimp crakers...which is absolutely just a minor appetizer in China (ya I had a lot when I was little and its no healthy food). Anyways, I was kindly exposed to waffle with brown cheese as typical norwegian food which is actually very yummy! We were talking and talking...although after a while we were sort of doing stupid stuffs partly cause of beer(and where the hack are those stupid pictures?!) .... Oh I had one of those strong norwegian alcohole... but I forgot the name (could anyone help me rememeber it as starts with an a)... and its really good... for a girl like me prefer being a quick drunker LOL
I love Friday night... and I really really start to love AIESEC.
My paper theme was announced on Friday and it is very very theoriotical... I am having a hard time trying to get some clue about what to write... oh its never fun starting to write a paper! Maybe because its time to write a paper for lots of exchange students, I've been hearing lots of complainments about how crazy norwegian people read. It is true that everything here in school means reading and reading and reading forever. The professor in class would only provide you with a big picture of the references and if you dont read in advance, then lectures are like boring slide shows. And the reading amount is more than "a lot", it is actually "huge" here. So far I have been reading more than 1000 pages but thats still slightly less than half AND that is only the first time skimming through which means I cannot just go to exams reading once of that amount. Erasmus students are so not getting used to this which actually surprised me because I thought it is very traditionally European. But if we talking about the reading amount in scandinavian countries, we should probably notice the rationale behind. Because here people take it for natural that "you are the only one who is responsible for your study and to pass the course/get the knowledge or not is your choice". It is because here as long as you pass 30 credits of your study then you do not need to pay back almost half of the student loan. Plus the grading system is more like 100% on final exams either pass (get a grade other than F) or not pass totally depend on the final shot. So the students are free to do self-study and go to exams.
Here thus brought back me to one of the conversation I had with a local student who had been exchange in UC berkely for whole year. He is rather a fan of North American system since over there everything counts for the final results of your study which me myself have experienced as well. You got the whole course outline and grading system telling you how your knowledge would be accessed based on a gradual process. Assignments, presentations, midterms, group work, final exams.... every little thing would be part of your study which is designed by the instructurer based on his/her experience. It is more like a commercial process which can be fairly efficient, but meanwhile students can just do it strategically if they dont want to pay much effort. Of course it is another "coin with two different side" case not only because everybody does have his/her own way of study but also how education should be responsible for individual would also be different.
Today when I was sitting in the bus, I suddenly had this feeling that "I love this place". Which is awww.... the starting point of feeling bad for leaving in two months. I experienced the same thing emotionally in Canada, at that time when I just started to feel how big the world is and how different culture could be but soon after I need to go back. But this time it is more like when I really really start to think about all those differences and diversities and fall in love with them and of course the people get involved in, I need to go back again.
Dont take me wrong when every time I say "I'm not homesick", it is just because I really do feel everywhere is my home.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
the one with the best is yet to come
The week so far has been really hard for me. Without my laptop, my room is way more quiet than before -- and I lost my best company when trying my best to fall asleep at night. Some freaks in hostel keep playing very loud music which also kept me awake for hours before I can really fall asleep. I lost lots of respect to a close friend who I used to be strongly attached to. In this story I shall say my chinese culture did save me from screaming and crying like insane. Although I still have been feeling broken deep down inside and could not think for a long time.
I used to examine myself a lot for whatever bad results that come to me, which makes this time lot more difficult because all I felt is being innocent...and maybe stupid in sticking to some values I always believed in. When there is a person comes to me and slapped on my face, I become upset and nervous... like don't really know what to believe anymore.
But, when I was reading and making noted on LonelyPlanet Netherlands alone in my room, when I started again to run very hard in the gym, when I talked and laughed with friends, when I saw old couples kissing each other goodbye and looked back to each other again after walking apart, when I went to AIESEC meetings and started cold calls to companies, when I look into people's eyes when talking to them, when I wander around and enjoyed sunshine in Bergen, when I picked up the phone and hear friends' voice back home... I know I am living my life. And I know there are lots of things still there to appreciate. I have always been grateful for living this life. Now I guess I just need to go through again what are these important for me.
I am back. And I am very happy that a new chapter has started and hopefully, the best is yet to come.
I used to examine myself a lot for whatever bad results that come to me, which makes this time lot more difficult because all I felt is being innocent...and maybe stupid in sticking to some values I always believed in. When there is a person comes to me and slapped on my face, I become upset and nervous... like don't really know what to believe anymore.
But, when I was reading and making noted on LonelyPlanet Netherlands alone in my room, when I started again to run very hard in the gym, when I talked and laughed with friends, when I saw old couples kissing each other goodbye and looked back to each other again after walking apart, when I went to AIESEC meetings and started cold calls to companies, when I look into people's eyes when talking to them, when I wander around and enjoyed sunshine in Bergen, when I picked up the phone and hear friends' voice back home... I know I am living my life. And I know there are lots of things still there to appreciate. I have always been grateful for living this life. Now I guess I just need to go through again what are these important for me.
I am back. And I am very happy that a new chapter has started and hopefully, the best is yet to come.
Sunday, March 4, 2007
the one with life without laptop
ok... nothing's worse... I have been pretty moody and grumpy the whole morning, cut my palm in the afternoon... and my laptop broke down for no reason in the evening. I got a presentation on Friday and all the research are in my damn laptop. And there's a paper theme posted this week. Oh...and those stupid computers in the library here dont recognize chinese character!
So...I'm not gonna be online that often my lovers... arrrhhhh... this is so damn bad luck!
So...I'm not gonna be online that often my lovers... arrrhhhh... this is so damn bad luck!
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