Jun
School
School has finally started.
I like my class, yes. I’m in the same section again as I have been for the past years. I’m very loyal to being Yong’s student. LOL. Since the school changed our sections’ names, I have never been into other sections except for Yong. Funny fact. 
Anyway, I like my class yes and the first day of our school really made me happy ’cause I found out that the person I don’t really like that supposed to be my classmate, again, moved to another school. Anyway, we have a lot of new teachers and one of them is our class adviser. Our terror math teacher last year is our teacher again this year.
The first week of school was very stressing already. I was loaded with lots of assignments already and I slept late most of the days. Up to know we’re still given a lot of assignments. And because today classes are suspended because of the typhoon Feria, we have a quiz tomorrow in Math, 2 chapters that are not yet discussed and I have no book and I’m sure I will fail. 
Anyway, I wanna share to you guys something. The other day, it was reported that 27 students were absent from our batch. 14 students from Zhi and 13 students from Ren. While our class, Yong, had no absentees! FUNNY. LOL=)) but the next day, they said that 16 were absent in Ren, 10 in Zhi, while us, we had 2 absentees already. Lol, maybe the Ren and Zhi people spread the virus because they always stay in our classroom.
Anyway! So far, there are no A(h1n1) or swine flu cases reported in our school, thank God!:)
Sorry I haven’t visit your blogs guys, since school started, I am just so busy!
Jun
I miss it ALL.
A tribute to my summer. Haha. It’s okay if you don’t read I just wanna keep a memory of what I felt about China after coming home..
So here it goes..
I was so excited about this China Study Tour from the very start. There were still a few weeks before the tour but my mind can’t stop thinking about it.
And so the time came that I had to pack my things and get ready. ‘Cause for the very first time, I was finally leaving home for a long time. By myself. I will be gone for 7 weeks without any family to help me around.
Honestly, I am a very dependent person I can say. And maybe I’m a little shy and coy so I was a little challenged.
Arriving at China, feeling the very cold weather, I felt..happy. I was so excited of what was going to happen next. It’s a whole new world to me, and to everyone.
Wow, I can’t believe I was really in China. With everyone speaking in Chinese, the whole new environment. The Chinese people. China is really different.
I made some friends the very first night. My roommates. Haha.
The first days there were just my friends from school and I. We stuck with each other. But as the days pass by, new friends came along and we started hanging out with them. We started hanging out with different new friends in different times.
Early in the morning we have to wake up early ’cause at 7:20am, we have to be in the canteen and have our breakfast. After that we have our classes. And there, I met at Class 1, fun persons that I get to spend my everyday. My classmates, who I am very glad that they are, play a huge part in my summer. And I am very thankful that I spent almost everyday of my life in HuaQiao with them. I love them and I do miss them a lot. All the things we shared together will always be with me.
On Tuesdays we have tours which I didn’t enjoy much but they were okay.
During nights we were bored, we go out and sit on the bench outside our rooms. On other days, we go out to the night market or walk around the campus or stay in the playground fighting over the swing.
Or maybe some nights we are just in our rooms playing cards or washing clothes. Or being crazy. A lot can be done.
At first I thought life in HuaQiao will be totally lame ’cause there are lessons, and more lessons. But no, you just have to enjoy life in HuaQiao.
Spending time with the people you’ve met there are just enough to have fun. But doing more stuff with them and discovering a lot of new things with them are even greater.
I’ve learned a lot in my stay in China. And as I can see, I learned to be independent. I learned Chinese of course, and I learned some other stuff too.
A lot are to be missed in China and I can say that I’m a little annoyed at myself ’cause I wasted so much time that I didn’t become close to everyone. I guess 7 weeks is just too short ’cause the time that everyone’s getting close, that’s the time we have to leave. Of course the first few weeks, everyone’s still shy. At the middle of the tour, people are coming out already and making friends with everyone. I wish the tour was longer..
I surely miss everything and everyone from China. I miss the drink we buy almost everyday, the milk tea or “nai cha”. I miss the long walks. I miss the night market. The steakhouse. The Flame Steak which made even the guys scream. I miss the swing. Our classroom which we have to climb 4 floors everyday. The canteen where I always buy ice cream after lunch or dinner. I miss our dormitory, our rooms, our CR which we don’t like to clean but eventually we have to. Our CR that always has those green insects that when you wash away, after one second there’s another one even if the window is closed. I miss our trash can which sometimes is already overflowing. Our individual tables which one once had a cockroach on it.
I miss everyone! I miss our teachers, I miss all the people I’ve met there. I miss all my friends. I miss HuaQiao. I miss China.
I miss the dance, ai de chi bang, wushu, everything. I miss the icing and ice cream fight. The snowspray and waterfight. I really miss everything, I know I’m so redundant but I can’t help myself. I really miss them all.
I’m amazed how the end of the tour made me cry so much. I know I’m emotional but you seldom see me cry. But knowing that I won’t be able to see these great people I’ve met again, knowing that there’s a small chance I’ll see them again, I wasn’t able to keep myself from crying. I guess it’s really hard to say goodbye. I know we have communication through text, chat and other stuff but it’s still different. Seeing them in person and hanging out with them is the best. Spending 7 weeks with them was the best thing that has happened to me.
Sometimes I still can’t believe that when I go out of my room, there are no people. When I go out of the house, there’s no garden. When I eat, the room’s so small. When I sleep, our room’s different. I still can’t believe that I am no longer in HuaQiao, in China and I can no longer see it and see my friends.
I thank all of the people I’ve met there for making my summer a fun and memorable one. And for making this summer, my best one. I love you all and I miss you all. XT ‘09 the best. It will forever be in my heart.
