I sort of didn’t know which of the letters in this posts’ title to capitalize, which is awkward as a college student. Anyway, today officially marks the middle of the last week of the full class weeks period. I don’t really know why anyone had a countdown to that, but I was made aware of the momentous occasion in class today during a presentation being given by two classmates. The aforementioned class was Finance, technically “Introduction to Money & Banking”, but what should tentatively be called “How to Avoid American Capital Gains Taxes and get Easy A’s in this Class.” Our professor, who is also my faculty sponsor for independent study, is a Harvard alum and former Wharton Professor who I swear couldn’t find his own pants if he didn’t wear the same ones everyday. Probably Asian affirmative action, which I’ve been advised is a real thing by my Asian roommate.
I finally booked my flights to Vietnam, with much help from Bekah, who eased my desire to kill someone due to our internet working so poorly. My mild illness didn’t help matters, nor did the 2 hours of sleep I’d gotten the night before. Over the next week and a half I have a Finance presentation on Thursday (We’ve been told he is looking for reasons not to give us 90′s), Human Resource presentation on Friday (where my group of three will present to our two, yes two, other classmates), a Human Resource final exam on Monday, Chinese oral final on Wednesday, and Chinese written, History of China, and Finance final exams on Thursday (what a bitch). Fortunately, I’m not really stressing about any of them because being abroad affords you the luxury of not caring about classes. Unless you actually go to Syracuse. Then you deserve to have to care for choosing a program affiliated with your school. Morons.
My favorite professor, our Chinese teacher Sophia (Or Sophia “lao shi” as we call her) secretly took my class, Group A (the other Mandarin class being Group B) to a late dim sum lunch. She is so funny and makes the best facial expressions. She is a constant story teller and gossip hoarder who literally asked us our opinions of all the other teachers, students and significant other’s in our lives. She is my Facebook friend, which is a little weird because she brought up how “beautirfa” we looked in our “Harroween” costumes…and then asked how many beers we’d had. It’s ok though because she gets beers with us when we go to lunch. So this post has served no real purpose other than a simple update on the goings on here at the wonderful SU Abroad-Hong Kong program.
Get Better Honey!!!! Hang in there!!!!!!
The snow will wait to arrive until you come home.
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Mom
Evan! I liked this academic update and the post before had me laughing to myself awkwardly…so thanks for that. haha. Anyway, I’m sorry you’re sick/had internet issues/were going off of 2 hrs of sleep. I think that’s how I know you’re going to be really sucessful when we all are out of school, in the real world, because you can actually take those things in stride, whereas people like me end up moaning about how awful being sick is and slurping soup nonstop/breaking their computer in frustration/sleeping through classes…Seriously, I don’t know how I could function on 2 hrs of sleep. I wouldn’t. I really would probably commit murder or something if someone said one wrong thing, and then get off by reason of insanity. It’s been so great to gchat with you! lets keep going on so we can talk or type, rather, haha. : ) Good luck on exams/the like. Sorry those are such a pain, (I just finished midterms officially yesterday)