ok. today's post!
today's breakfast was really weird. it made me feel like a horse. i got the weird vegetable sandwich. i didnt have much of a choice. it was purely by luck. and the sandwich had alfafa sprouts in it. EWW. well, at least the drinks were vaguely good. i had iced peach black tea, which tastes the same as the 40cents packet one that you can buy from the school canteen.
after breakfast there was this small window of time again. went back to room to get books before going back to class. i swear we were all on the verge of taking sick leave. oh yea, before i forget to mention, because i fell aslp while studying last night, i didnt sleep in a proper position, resulting in me having some sort of a weird crickey neck today. actually it was so painful that i could barely turn my head to the left.
so. went to class. in class we sit in tables of two. and brenda so happens to sit on my left. and everytime she calls my name, i have to turn my head to the left to reply. and unfortunately for me, i keep forgetting that my neck is hurting like crap. so everytime i turn, i feel as if my head is going to roll off my shoulders (that would have felt so much better, honestly). to make things worst, there's this sec2 guy in my class (actually there are only 2 sec2 guys in my class- the middle standard class). i think his name is zhi yuan or something. REALLY ANNOYING. i mean, he keeps trying to make me turn my head to the left by annoying me (since h sits diagonally left in front of me). AND NO, IM NOT SITTING IN FRONT. contrary to popular belief, just bacause im short does not mean that i have to sit in front everytime.
today during lessons we saw our 2nd teacher. each class is taught by 2 different teachers, each focusing on the different skills, i.e. listening and speaking, and reading and writing. our 2nd teacher focused more on listening and speaking. at the start of the lesson, she asked us to complete this worksheet which required us to already have seen taiwan. haha. so my class smartly talked our way into her letting us go out (crap my english is screwed). in the end, we did go out! we went out to the main campus of the university that we were staying in. it was really cool and really pretty. its a pity the internet connection sucks, or i'd have uploaded all the photos onto my blog. GAH.
after the 2nd teacher's lesson we had lunch. lunch was at the restaurant as usual. the vegetables they gave were so bitter! our table didnt eat much of it at all. so when the teachers came around to check and see if the people were done with their food and whether we could all go off, they realised we had too much veggie left. as such, li lao shi made all of us eat a little bit veggie each. when they walked off for a short short while, brenda dumped some of her veggies back into the dish, and i squished some of my veggies under my teacup (haha oops). unfortunately, the teachers came back to our table before we could do anything drastic. as such, we all had to eat our veggies. and brenda dumped more veggies back into the main dish right under the teacher's nose. HAHA. i managed to get rid of a bit of veggie myself. because the soup they served had tons of ginger in it, there was a fair bit of ginger left in my soup bowl. so i hid a bit of my veggie under the ginger in the soup bowl. haha. didnt dare hide too much veggie in case it became so obvious that the teachers find out. ohohoh! and li lao shi has a really cute way of asking us whether we had pooped for the day! haha.
our translated dialogue:
laoshi: have you bombed pearl harbour today?
us: huh?
laoshi: have you bombed pearl harbour today?
us: huh? we really dont understand.
laoshi: you know, like bombed?
us: huh?
laoshi: like you know... poo-ed?
us: OH! then why didnt you say so?
laoshi: its abit gross.
us: o right. then what if the bomb gets stuck? *bursts into laughter*
after that we laughed so loud and so hard that i totally missed what the teacher said next.
then, lunch ended. we gathered our stuff quickly and went for class again. we tried deciding on songs that we wanted to sing for the inter-class karaoke competition on friday. it was super unproductive. SERIOUSLY. but in the end, after like an hour plus plus, we managed to decide on a song. haha. yay.
then we had our mini test today. it wasnt as hard as i expected it to be. well. it wasnt that easy either. at least i didnt waste my time studying. then after that we had our mini speech. mine was totally impromtu. haha. i THINK i did ok. right. after all the different tests we had the teacher brought us out! haha TWICE in a day! the other classes were so jealous! she brought us to the night market. but it was only around 4+ so most of the shops werent even open yet. and we didnt really have time to buy anything because we had to report back to the hostel. gah.
dinner was boring, except for brenda's cheekopek smile! haha. and because brenda kept giving us the cheekopek look when li lao shi was talking, we all had to stay back after dinner because we kept laughing. and then after that when we told li lao shi the reason we were laughing, all the teachers started laughing too! we were in a laughing fit for more than 5 minutes! SUPER funny.
after dinner i came back to the room to blog and splice the songs for the karaoke competition.
now my roommates and i are playing taidi and eating our fruits. and we're betting sweets :D