08/09/2008

Ahhh… the first Monday I spent in school. Lessons start 8.40 am and ends 4.10 pm, with a half-an-hour break and 1-hour lunch break in between. Then straight afterwards, we had a house meeting at 4.20 pm, which lasted to around 5pm. Have been here for a few days now, but I just have this weird feeling of speaking more Chinese than English most of the time, since most of my friends are Chinese and I might be useful as a “professional” translator. I have never expected this… Anyway, it’s good too. Now I can speak mandarin slang.

My further maths class is very distinctive in the sense that 8 of the 10 students who take further maths are Chinese (including me…). Haha… there’s another Scottish and a German. I have heard that another German is joining our class. He is complaining that the normal maths class is child’s work. Well… I kind of agree. They haven’t even started on logarithm, differentiation, integration… WTH! Now, I am back to Form 2 (Primary 6 for the Chinese…) and studying indices. This sounds stupid, but they really have no clue when I asked them about logarithm. OMG…

Apart from overseas students from China, Hong Kong and Brunei, I met one from Africa today in my Biology class, from Tanzania, to be precise. Wow… Anyway, biology is always boring. I thought it might change but well, it seems to me that it’s not the teachers that bore me, but the subject as a whole is boring. Just study for the sake of studying…

Most of the Chinese are from Guangdong province, such as the cities of Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Dongguan. There is one from Jiangxi and another one from Beijing as well.

My boarding house, Ruthven, is not bad. We have a good housemaster, Mr. Andrew Watt. He is very friendly. I like the fact that things are really organized in the house. Every day we have a schedule of everything that’s going on right in front of the main door. At least this keeps me informed. We also have a ping pong table in the common room and a wide screen TV. The sofas are very comfy, really really soft and makes me don’t feel like standing up after sitting on it. There are lots of toilet, you don’t have to worry of having to queue for a toilet seat. However, the showers are damn hot. I mean, the water is damn hot. Very very hot. Shower for 10 minutes continuously and you’re cooked. That’s why I normally take quick shower.

Ohhh… I really want to upload my pictures. What’s wrong with my broadband???