I can't believe its happened to me again.... I cannot sleep in! I wanted to have a nice lateish morning. Catch up on the sleep from the habit of waking up so early in the morning!!! *sigh* So I thought I'd write a decent blog entry to make up for the appalling lazy ass last entry.

So whats up in A-Town? Well as I said in my previous post, I have been working full time. I have just finished my second week of full time-ness, and I must admit, it was a hard one. I found that around 2.30 - 3.30 it is my deadzone. I am so zoinked out that I am hardly productive. *sigh* I feel so bad. I can't help it! I think it was also attributable for the crazy sat night at Metros.

It is also a downer that we do not have a computer. I mean, not that I want to procrastinate, but by having a computer at least you can have a few mins break looking at your email or something... I mean working 7.5 hours flat is hard stuff. One day I was particularly down... and attempted to amuse myself... Meet my Happy Mandarin:

Before & After



Hehehehe... yea he rocks. I loved him. I felt so bad when it came to eating him. Because when I made him, the smile just made me feel better. LOL It was like "you are ridiculous!" I felt like the Hannibal, peeling the skin off my victim...

Anyways, what else... Oh yea, Mich and I enrolled in 中文棵. (Chinese class)

现在我很高兴！ 我应该还学习汉语！
Now I am very Happy, I should really study Chinese more!

When we went to enrol, Mich picked me up from work during my lunch break and we rushed to northbridge. The person who enrolled us 是我们的老师！ (was our teacher). She asked us whether we had studied Chinese before, and we said that we had learned in China. She then broke out in Chinese:

Teacher: 你喜欢北京马？
(Do you like beijing?)

Me: (stunned): uh *nods* 我喜欢。
(I like.)

Teacher: 你的妈妈爸爸中国人？
(Are you parents Chinese?)

Me: 不是， 我的妈妈是 Indonesian 和我的爸爸美国人。
(No, my mom is Indonesian, and my dad is American)

Teacher: Oh... *nods* 为什么你学习汉语？
(Why did you study Chinese?)

Me: um... *thinks of a reason she can say in chinese* 因为很多我的朋友会说汉语。
(because a lot of my friends can speak chinese)

Teacher: I cant remember how she asked, but she asked whether I could read and write chinese... I said 一点 (a little)

She then turned to her computer and went to a website with Chinese Characters, she then asked me to read it, there were a few that I could read, but she made me read ones that I couldn't *sigh* and I admit, I had forgotten a lot of them. She then asked whether we could type in Chinese. Mich and I said yes. She then came to the conclusion that even though our spoken Chinese is pretty good, are reading and writing is not strong enough to start in the second year of Chinese. So she put us into the second semester of the first year. I guess thats good. I mean I did wanna learn how to write better, and I wanted to revise on a lot of the Chinese I had forgotten. But yea... now I am excited!!!

Only thing is, my classes are on Tuesday nights and Thursday nights, meaning that I have to miss out on some netball games :( *sigh*

Anywho... thats me so far. Pretty boring post...

再见！

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