Well I’m starting to get some of my midterm grades back. I did better on average during the first semester but thats to be expected I guess since many of my classes this semester are the second semester in year-long courses so they are harder. I did pretty horribly in Calculus which means that I’m going to have to work really hard for the rest of the semester.
Emily and I are working on finding an apartment for next year. We want to move to Taipei so my commute isn’t as far and so we can be closer to friends. She’s planning on transferring to another university so it should work out really well hopefully. Getting used to living in a metropolitan area where commutes are apart of life has been interesting.
We both went and had dinner with a girl that my parents met back home while she was studying at MSU named Gilda. She brought a friend along who had also lived in East Lansing and it was great. We talked about Meijer’s and all the great things we miss from the States even though they are Taiwanese and more at home here. They were two really sweet women who after dinner took us to walk around looking for “for rent” signs since we were near where we want to live.
I’m starting to look ahead and really decide how we can make money for plane tickets this summer in the States. I’m still leaning towards starting a window washing and painting business with Emily. My friend Marty gave me the low down on how he made money washing windows and it seems like a good idea. Its just the whole self-motivation thing that concerns me.
Our scooter has been making funny noises lately. I need to take it down to the shop and have them check it out but I think its a bad muffler….hopefully something simple.
This semester I started out with a pretty rocky relationship with one of my teachers. He’s an American who teaches my Sociology course. We didn’t exactly click and so the first several weeks we butted heads quite a bit. Its much better now though. We’ve had some conversations and I’ve started to understand him better and I think he’s had a chance to understand me better too. I’m glad.
Its funny because I have to bounce back and forth between teaching styles here. Taiwanese teachers are much more “I’m the teacher, listen to what I say and then do what I say” oriented and western teachers are more about asking questions and trying to lead the student to find their own answer. Sometimes my mind can’t keep up with whatever way I’m supposed to act for that particularly teacher and I think that might be why me and Mr. Sociology started off badly.
I still enjoy Economics class even though the teacher isn’t so great. I like reading the textbook and trying to apply Economic theory to real-life situations.
Its interesting too because I find that my idea of the rest of the world is changing as well. I’m meeting people from all over the world and making observations. I’m also making observations about the United States in different ways as well.
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