Recently

I know I suppose to post on Wed, but I was totally forgot, so this is my post for Wednesday. I felt a little bit lost, because time management is a really big deal I need to learn, time is separate apart, so sometimes it is hard to catch up. It felt so bad when my friends blamed me for being late for dinner with them. I just felt kind of upset, because I really cares, but things just makes me stressful. I really should clear my mind and have a rest.

And good news is my friends and I went to the movie theater on Friday night, we saw the <2012>, it was pretty good. It’s like, even though you can guess the end will be good, but still it grab your heart, you just can’t take your eyes off the scene. This is a movie you may not want to miss.

Since I’m a little behind my homework, so it’s time to go back to work, see you guys on Monday!

 

a little early

I know Wednesday is my blog day, but considered I will have a lot of things do to, so I choose today to post my blog. The excited things is I’ve done on choose my J term course! Yea! I chosen the Chinese film one, and I’m looking forward to it because I’m so curious about the way the professor will teach us, and what will she teach us about modern China. It will be interested for learning the situation in China by watching movies.

And today at my interpersonal communication class, we discussed an article about how disabled people feels when able people ask them why they are on the wheelchair or why their act awkward. The study based on the interview, and the result is not very surprising but kind of impressive because I some times feel the same with those disabled persons. I always like to put myself on other people’s position, so I’m quite a listener and I care about what other people’s feeling. So the result is, disabled people actually feels more comfortable with able people when able people ask them about how they end up on a wheelchair, how they daily life is. How can I find the parallel? After I came here, I know some people is curious about China and I’m willing to talk to them about it, but my peers who in other universities in America, they told me they were asked by American students that if they use mobile phones in China etc. I was like very shocked. But I know things happens, so I think we’d rather answer those questions instead of have people look at us strangely. So do disabled people, they’d rather let people ask them how they feel to be disabled instead of people stare at them with weird vision. Because feel alone is so lonely. So, whether you have questions, I’m here for you!

 

School starts

Finally, the sweet fall break ends, I end up back at school again. This is like end of my dream, and I need to face the real life again. Stay in Kansas was absolutely fantastic, I know, I know someone says Kansas is a boring state, but it was totally different when I spent my time with my friends. I have 4 friends there, we cooked meals together, we went to gym together, and we did nothing but just laugh together.That was amazing.

It was interesting to see how University of Kansas is different from GAC, and how people’s life there. I have to say it hurts my feet so bad for me to walked down the campus of KU. There were too many students so the crowds almost got me lost. And I have to admit that I missed our market place so much when I ate at market place there. Okay, those are just random thoughts, because I ‘m still kind of missed my trip, so I don’t really know what to say. The only thing I didn’t like is about the greyhound, I spent totally 18 hours on the bus, it was okay on the bus, but it was totally not when I stood in the station waiting for the next bus. It was scared, especially at 2′o clock in the morning, you stood there alone, and some guy just stared at you with strange expression in their eyes. Anyways, that was a good chance for me to see the different side of America, no matter it was good or bad. I learned a lot from this trip, when I got here, I know it was totally worth it.

Now I just need to do my study well, and get excited for my next journey at Thanksgiving! See you guys tomorrow! (I actually should post my blog yesterday, but I was totally forgot, I’m sorry )

 

ready for the reading break!

I’m so happy that reading break is coming, hopefully I can survive until then. I’m going to visit Kansas this weekend, hope I can get a total release there. I felt so stressful these days, but somehow I found a belongings of home. It was two days ago, I had a class at 9 a.m, and I didn’t get up till 8:40, and my roommate was at swim practice. Since we’ve been live together for almost two moths, so she knows me pretty well. So  she called me, and said “Yixin, it’s time to wake up!” And I was totally awake, and suddenly I felt so sweet, it was very nice of her! That reminds me of my mom, especially I saw some of the post, people saying they’re going home, I’m so jealous.

Anyways, I went to a concert today, the music is all played by clarinet, it was awesome! They are all US Air Force , they even played the theme song of Harry Potter!

 

weekly

I’m totally freak out by the mid-term and excited about the fall break at the same time! In order to get away from the school work, I decided to swim today, but when I got there, I found the pool was closed for the practice, and it’ll not open till 6:30 p.m, it was so sad. Because I really need a little break, so my friend and I only went to the sauna for half an hour, trust me, you’ll fall in love with it. Then I decided do sauna three times a week, woo!

I was lost track of time this week, I was completely slept over the calculus class yesterday, and luckily I’ve got three free absence. Then, I was late for my econ class today which I totally shouldn’t because the class starts at 10:30, and I don’t have free excuse absence. When I woke up and I was completely shocked, the clock shows it was 10:40 and I couldn’t believe my eyes, then I found my friend who is at the same econ class as I am called me at 10:20 and my phone profile is silent. Do you know how much I want to kill myself? And if you walked on the way to social science building this morning, you would see someone was running crazily. That was not funny.

Anyways, I really should have to do my reading now. So I’ll see you guys later.

 

Nobel Conference

I really had a good time during Nobel Conference, I went to the first lecture which presented by Dr.Pachauri. I interested in his topic which is climate change and global peace, because as we know, China also has the water crisis problem too. The population and water stress has conflict not only in India, but also in China. We’ve already found the solution to try our best to decrease the climate change, but it still need time. The joke that he told is very true, two plants are talking about their planet, they said everything is great except the living creature called human being, they’re making our planet getting worse. Yes, we can’t do whatever we want just because we have the highest intelligence. We need to share the planet with all the creatures. And I also learned from Dr.Pachauri that the continued emissions would lead to further warming of 1.1°c to 6.4°c, that is way more faster than 20 century. I knew the climate issue is huge but I didn’t realize it became such a serious increase problem. As long as climate keep raise higher, our water resources will become more and more shortage. And it will bring a lot of side effects like illegal immigration. Last, I think we cannot just rely on the new technology, but we need to make a lot effort on the water problem solving. As Dr.Pachauri said, we can do something on our own, even just change our shower time is a big effort. Right? Everybody let’s get started!

 

I gotta feeling

I spent ten minutes to think about what to post, but I didn’t come up with some good ideas, so I decided to write my last communication experiment. It was about make some really annoyed nonverbal actions to someone you know and someone you don’t know. So I would like to talk about the one to stranger, I saw there were two guys watching a football game on tv, so I decided to sitting in front of the tv. Later I called my friend tried to make big noise, like I laughed out loud and wave my hand etc. Trust me, it was the embarrassed thing ever! But it surprised me when I didn’t see any disgust feeling on their face, and they were quite happy instead. It confused me, so I decided to talk to them. Guess what? They already found out that I was doing an experiment, because normal people would never do that. I can’t believe that I failed! Fine, in any case, it was an experiment. And the process was so good, you guys should try some time! Oh, and don’t forget to tell people that you were doing an experiment after that. Kidding…

I have a presentation tomorrow ,so it’s time to back to work. Wish me luck.

 

No title is a good title

I really have no idea about what I’m gonna say, because the school work makes me so stressed, and I have to work 7 hours at Saturday, and keep studying in Sunday. You know, in college, Sunday is not count in weekend anymore. So, technically, I do not have a life, if you called “chat with friends during dinner” a life.

I have to admit that I’m bad at time management, especially when I have to deal with all the stuff on my own! Sometimes lazy is not a shortcoming, it is just a habit. Like in my home, my mom always do the laundry, so sometimes I will do laundry only if I don’t have anything to wear. And let alone organize things together, you know, I have a “illness” called choice phobia disorder, I’ve always have trouble when separate things in different boxes, I mean, things like books is obviously easy to classify. But things like clothes is always makes me complicated. So please don’t let me make a choice as possible as you can.

 

The start of something new

This is my 4th blog I guess, I have live journal, blog bus, and windows space before, but I don’t update them anymore because I’m kind of lazy and the feeling of freshness sometimes won’t last too long.But I hope this “homework” will be continued.

Just for curiosity, so I looked the google map tried to find out exactly how far away from home, that is 10931 miles away and it will take 142 days and 8 hours to walk to home from here! And also 13 hours time difference means  I cannot talk to my parents whenever I want. (well, it’s okay because I always email them.) And think about home-cook meal always make me hungry, I ate two cookies after I saw some photos of Chinese food which I shouldn’t.

Talk about the first week in class, I can hear “overwhelmed” from everyone’s mouth. So do I. The interpersonal communication was so much fun and scary at the same time. Because I’m really not the person who can speak in the public with full confidence, but at least I’m trying! And an observation that I have done two days ago was interesting, because I need to peeping people while them have communication, and I have to guess if they have some kind of relationship. What else, the calculus is extremely easy but the macroeconomics is kind of the opposite. I have too much things to memory which drive me crazy.

But the happiness is around everywhere because people here are nicer than people in my hometown, I mean the different is the way they communicate. To be honest, I have never met professors like here before, because in China, our teachers are always act like phlegmatic, and its hard for them to encourage student, like they always criticize the lacking of your essay or test paper instead of praise your well done of your homework. You know, today in our FTS class, Jasmine asked Kelsey to pass hands cleanser or something, and Kelsey just throw it to her, if I do that in China, teacher will get furious and kick me out of the class. So, trust me, that will never ever happened in China. And use bathroom during class always need teacher’s permission, but usually they only give the permission to some so called “good students” but not the “bad student”, that is so uncool. And we usually get tons of homework everyday, and  hand writing is required, so I spent almost 5 hours a day in my homework, and we have class not only in week, but also in Saturday and Sunday morning during senior year, sounds unbelievable, right?

So compare with my high school, Gustavus is much better. I’m really appreciate that. Anyways, tomorrow is another day.

 

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I’m a blogger now!