Well Let Us See What Has Been Happening...

Last week was pretty fun. Monday morning I had a presentation. Monday afternoon I had an exam. Tuesday morning I had an exam. Judging by my previous statements, my weekend running up to that wonderful few days was spent in the library or sleeping. Well, now that week is over and here I am: still breathing. I got my grades back in this weeks class and it wasn't as great as I wanted to do. Oh well, they are small portions of my overall grade. School is boring...let's move to something else.

My hall had a formal dinner on Monday night. It was...fun. Half of the time they were speaking in Cantonese or English that was not exactly perfect. Needless to say, I zoned out for a fair bit of it. Not much excitement other than that with the residence kids.

Last night was St. Patty's day. Always exciting. A bunch of students went down to an Irish Pub for a bit. I love how everyone claims to be Irish on this day. Real Conversation last night...
Guy: (Yelling) Who here is actually Irish?
Girl: (Raises hand) I am!
Guy: Where are you from?
Girl: New York!
Guy: Have you ever lived in Ireland?
Girl: No.
Guy: (Still Yelling) Is anyone here ACTUALLY Irish?
Never lived in Ireland? Parents never lived in Ireland? Grandparents never lived in Ireland? In my book, your family may have been Irish but you aren't. I'm not. Call me a half-empty kinda kid, I don't mind.

For those of you who didn't hear, we took a fieldtrip to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange last week. It was pretty uneventful but still an interesting thing to see.

That's about it for now. The picture is of myself and the kid who was sitting next to me at our dinner thing.

The Uneventful Month of February...

Some of you may have realized that I haven't added anything new for a while. While this may irritate some, confuse others, or fail to strike any sort of emotion in some...it is for good reason I haven't added anything. That reason is....Nothing has happened. We are now in full swing with this thing 'they' call school. Apparently, group projects, midterm exams and busy work (though very little of this) are things assigned to 'students.' I fail to see the benefits of such things when I am trying to travel, not study and take frequent naps. These 'Professors' don't realize how important napping is to young, college-aged males from Indiana. I must exert excessive effort trying to fix my schedule as to allot time for a 3-hour daily nap. Instead of aiding me in this effort, 'Professors' assign tasks to create distractions. However! I have disciplined myself regularly over the past 2 1/2 years of college studies to look past these distractions to find time to rest my mind and body. Mom, Dad...are you proud? I thought you would be. I know I will look back one day and hopefully be able to teach my children the value of napping instead of doing school work. Instead of drinking coffee, I take a short rest to rejuvenate myself for the next 2 hours before bed. Coffee sure is tasty though...I think I may go get a cup.

Something that may be interesting to some is my recent adventure with a few Purdue grads and other Purdue exchange students in Hong Kong. We were able to get together for dinner for some Vietnamese cuisine. It was pretty good...but obviously they didn't know that there was fine dining just a short walk from my campus at Cafe de McDonalds. Next time....

If you have any book recommendations, please forward those to my email inbox. I just finished one today and am trying to put off reading Capitalist Development and Economism in East Asia by Ku-Wai Li (my professor for Asia-Pacific Economies).

That is about it for now. Stay tuned...You never know when something exciting may happen?!

Oh Yeah! I went to see Top Gear Live. A car TV show based in England that airs on BBC. For more info...refer to Google. That is where the picture is from. It is a Zonda.