Can you imagine it's already half term

I can still vividly remember, the day I was about to fly back to England. After three months of summer at home, comfortably, doing nothing, I was so worried that I might have a hard time adapting back to university life. At the airport I felt so strange to have to leave home again even though it was not the first time I did so, especially knowing that the condition with mum’s legs has gotten so much worse. Never had I felt so emotional before, so bothered and concerned about my parents. There was, for the first time, a slight fear of homesickness intruding me.However all of my worries and fears have been proven futile. I instantly got back into uni mode the second I arrived, handling accommodation, meeting friends, making new friends, changing modules and going to lectures. Even I was surprised by the comfortability and the familiarity I felt with everything. It came almost instantly.

Just before I started realise, it’s already week five and reading week for German modules. Next week it would be reading week for all other modules. I started working at the Communications department and the first day I went to work they told me it’s half term so there wasn’t a lot of people in the office. Half term. That means we have one and a half term more and this year will be gone in no time. You know if you sit down properly and count the days passed you’ll be scared to know that it passed so quickly.

I did meet quite a lot of new friends, some of them are really cool and nice. But I’m still looking for that one person, who seems to be absent from my life at the moment. 大王老師 read my palms before I left and told me twice about meeting someone in one of the activities that would happen in uni. I might be too dumb or that would be inaccurate because I still haven't seen a single soul of that someone that I would meet. Where are you? Please, I don't bite.
其實真的很難判斷到底是誰。我要怎麽看得出來啊拜托。

I am also trying to go to Germany this Christmas break to work as a helpx work but still no luck in finding a host so far. I really hope I could find someone before the break - if not I really don't know what I should do.

Finishing with this song.

Almost a Month Back in Essex

I really shouldn't be writing this now.

I have to read more than 60 pages of Le passager de la pluie, a story about a woman who got raped in a southern France small holiday resort in autumn. I think I am on page 24. Also I have to do two French listening exercises, prepare a Spanish essay test for next week, and finish the German model particles (or whatever it is) exercises. In short, I have A LOT to do.

Last year, being a first year Modern Languages student, I kinda slacked a lot. My modules were not particularly difficult, they weren't demanding and I didn't really have to do a lot to be able to cope up with my lessons - I even got a first in the finals and got into the Dean's List. I spent a lot of my time doing (voluntarily) work for Model UN society, where I was the fundraising and volunteering officer.

But it all has changed completely. This year I am challenging myself so I took tests and jumped a level in German and two levels in Spanish, doing all three languages in Advanced level. I leave every class with more than 20 vocabularies that I should have memorised in the evening of every day but so far I have successfully memorised 0 words. I'm also starting my frontrunner placement at the Communications department next Monday while preparing to start a new society. Therefore I can safely assume that I will be very busy all year long this year. However I am enjoying the huge load of work on me. It feels good when you put in a lot of effort into organising every day and really feel that you are actually learning things throughout the week. This degree is not for nothing.

Tomorrow will mark the one-month period since I came back to Essex. A lot has happened. I went to Paris for Yunni's wedding, became friends with new people, became acquaintances with old friends and also started trying out new societies, even sports clubs!

The only thing that I still don't get very used to is the fact that we now live in the Quays which is 15 minutes away from central campus with a very unreliable bus service. But there's a silver lining - I know someone almost on every floor of my building, everyone just sort of lives in House 5. Other than that I have fully pulled myself back together, attending all classes (14 hours a week) and cooking (pasta and some other easy food) and even started jogging (when I feel like doing).

To second year!