I think I need to stop drinking that instant milk tea thing...

So fucking jittery. This is going to be a rambling post, completely devoid of merit.

OMG, I want it so bad! I found a site that was selling it a few weeks ago and now I can't find it again. Should have bookmarked the damn thing.

I've been playing around with the idea of getting Animal Crossing for my DS. Then again, I gotta pay for textbooks. Maybe three months from now...

I didn't get into any of the International Relations courses. *STRESS* I'm fucked. I'm so fucked.

Classes this term so far:

Biology of the Organism

Elementary Chinese II

Cognitive Psychology

Social Psychology

Waitlisted for:

American Foreign Policy: 1945-Present

Theories of International Relations

Producing for TV and Film

Acting for Non-Majors

First day of classes tomorrow today. I only have to go to Cognitive Psych tomorrow today (w00t! no textbook!). Pennsylvania doesn't believe in Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

The News Roundup

The bid for Chinese nannies/au pairs?

My mother told me about this a few weeks ago after it was in a Chinese newspaper. I was surprised to find such a similar article on BBC. There are definitely some misconceptions in the trend. It's not that simple just to pick up any language (and Chinese is a difficult language to begin with) without any reinforcement. If I was really completely truthful about my language orientations, I am a native Chinese speaker. English is most definitely my second language, but it is also my dominant language. Hell, it's one of the reasons I'm struggling to basically re-learn Chinese at this point. I lived with parents that spoke nothing but Chinese at me for the last 19 years of my life and look at me now... I speak at about the second to third grade level, read at about a third to fourth grade level, and write at a first grade level (elementary school levels). At most, these parents can only hope their children will pick up the basics of directions and how to ask where the bathroom is (which is something everyone should probably learn to ask in every language, lol).

PS w00t! Corner of Mott and Bayard Street!

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