T-39 Days

I know, I know, it's been a really long time. In my defense, I've had two weeks of midterms, spring break, and a week to recover from spring break going on. Anyways, here's some highlights from the past four or so weeks:

-The only thing I have to say about midterms is that they're over.

-For spring break, Mom came to visit. It was really great, minus the whole having her wake me up between 6:30 and 7 every morning. But I did get to sleep in a real bed, and eat decent food.

-I went to pick Mom from the airport. I get there early, and her plane is late (of course). I'm just standing in the arrivals area, listening to my iPod, minding my own business, and this old guy walks up to me and asks if I'm waiting on the flight from Vancouver. When I look at the guy, I realize that he's wearing a t-shirt, boxers, and cowboy boots. He also smells like he's been drinking for the past 4 or 5 hours. After about 10 minutes of awkward conversation with the drunk Texan, he finally sees his brother, and as soon as he left, I went over to the other side of the room just in case he came back.

-Mom and I had a really good time. We did a lot of shopping in the markets, got all of my souvenir shopping done, went to Macau, and went to Hong Kong Disneyland. I've never seen anything funnier than all of the Asian people in the 3-D show at Disney. You expect little kids to reach out for the 3-D objects, but no, the adults do too. And they're incredibly amused by it. It was 10 times funnier watching the people.

-While Mom was here, Tech's registration for the fall semester began. I was scheduled to register at 1:15 pm EST, which is 1:15 am HK time. Well, I accidentally overslept, and when I tried to register at 3:30 am, I found out that the registrar's office accidentally blocked all of the students who were studying abroad form registering. This was during Easter weekend. So, I panicked because I thought that I wasn't going to get into any of my classes. They ended up getting everything fixed a few days later, but I still had to get someone to hold a class for me. Thanks GT for stressing me out all the way across the globe.

-Alpha Gam won Greek Week! Congratulations girls! And I watched the Greek Sing video, and it was amazing! So was the Stroll video :)

-I finally bought some movies at one of the markets. The first one I watched was Confessions of a Shoppaholic, which had about 20-30 minutes missing in the middle of the movie. I also got Watchmen, which occasionally switched to Russian for a few minutes. The copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine didn't have all of the special effects added in yet, which was entertaining. The only movie that had nothing wrong with it was The Dark Knight.

-For the first time in 8 seasons, I finally picked the right top 5 for American Idol. This is also the first time I'll actually be sad to see people go home. The only person I voted for that actually won was David Cook. My top 2 are still Adam and Allison though.

-This week was the week after spring break, and I've pretty much just gone to class. I did eat Turkish food last night, which was actually really good. But that's pretty much the only exciting thing that's happened.

-Actually, one exciting/infuriating thing did happen this week. Last night, I had every intention of updating my blog. That was until my debit card (and only source of money) stopped working again. For the third time. That is because the bank flagged my card because someone used it in China. Hmm, I wonder who could've done that? Maybe the same person who's been using it in China for the past 3 months? Anyway, they told my mom that the ATM must not have been working. They wasted several of my phone minutes to tell me the exact same thing, despite the fact that I tried it on 2 ATMs. After 6 tries at 4 different ATMs, they realized that they accidentally flagged the card. I wouldn't have been so mad if this had been the first time they cut me off. But 3 times? Really? Thank you for wasting hours of my life and a ridiculous amount of phone minutes.


Here's my fun quotes for the past few weeks:

-"Do you still shine when you are blue?" - random sign on a classroom door

-"When I am sad, I stop being sad and start being awesome." -another random sign. I later found out that this is a quote from the show How I Met Your Mother (thanks Laura).

-"That's what it teaches you to say in the travel safety section! It teaches you 'Help!' 'Police!' 'Don't shoot!' and 'Those drugs aren't mine!'" - a girl in my Chinese class reading the travel safety section on a Chinese travel website.


Well that's about all I've got. Sorry it took so long! But you can start the countdown, because I'll be home in 39 days! Maybe less if Mom ever changes my plane ticket. Love and miss you all! See you soon!