Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen.
After ages of nothing posted here I decide to try another restart of my blog. First of all, because I don’t have much contact to my friends from Brasília lately and secondly, because I think my life was and is (and, I hope, will be?) more interesting in the last weeks and now. I hope there will be someone out there reading this!
I think I will quit my daily system, because some days are really boring... I’ll only tell you about the more interesting days.
Latest News in my life:
I am 19 now (but I still forget about this often... ^^).
I am still single.
I am still learning Japanese.
I am still trying to learn Portuguese.
I am still thinking about a trip to Brazil.
I will have Easter holidays in two weeks (and these holidays will be great!).
And:
I started to learn Chinese.
Friday, 19th of March 2004
Chinese Day
This day there was a holiday in some province in Austria, including Styria, where I live. It was the day of Holy Josef. I had no lessons at university, but I had a test in chemistry. This test was the second of three I have to do during this semester. In the first test I had 6 of 14 points (this is good, because I only read through the notes once...). This time I hope I will get more points (I need, at least, 8,5 points).
After my test I met my new friend Yue Ling, the Chinese girl which teaches me Chinese. She is very nice and sweet. I will also write about here in my friends blog, I think. We learned a bit Chinese and talked a bit, like normal and like every day. Later there came some other Chinese students. I walked with them to the flat where one of them lives. We were a group of five guys, four Chinese and I. I was very glad. I always wanted to get to know the Chinese students, and now I know some of them!
At the flat we talked a lot about Austria and other things (I was so impressed, they know so much about Austrian history and such things!) and they borrowed me a book which is normally for Chinese children to learn Chinese... But the book is very good I think. We ate walnuts (what a strange word...) and they sang some Chinese children songs for me. And the best, I knew one of the songs, we also have a German version of it here, called “Bruder Jakob”. I think the song is originally from France, there it is called “Frère Jaques” (I think...).
Later Ling and I (I heard in China it is common to call people with there full name, but for me this sounds very cold...) walked to her flat. She cooked something Chinese there, onions with egg and broccoli (and rice, of course). And also a soup of champignons and Chinese mushrooms called Judas’ Ear. The onions and this were good, but it was sooo much, but the soup wasn’t so good for me... Then we looked through a book about China and Ling showed me a lot of her Chinese German-books and other things and also some photos. Then I had to go to train station. Ling walked with me. She is very kind and nice.
If I wouldn’t have met the Chinese students today, I could also call this day “Telephone Day”, because I think I have never talked to so many (or much??) different people on the phone at the same day. At Ling’s house my friend Jürgen called me. Just when we wanted to leave the house Bernhard called me and I still talked to him on the way to train station. On the way my mother called me then. And in train I called Tina, because it was here birthday.
Later in train my good mood vanished somehow, but I don’t want to destroy the description of this nice with this and I will write more about it in my second Interlude, “About Racism”.
Thursday, 18th of March 2004
Hardcore Day
I’ve called this day Hardcore Day, because I had sooo many lessons. As usual, it started at 8.15 in the morning. We had Mechanics first, it was boring, just as usual. Then we had (by the way, we is nobody special, all the students who where there) Statistics. And then Chemistry. And after that Statistics again (because of the holiday the next day). It was really tiring... I always sat at the same place, only not in Statistics, I sat next to Ling then. All lessons but the second Statistics where double-lessons, so you can imagine how long I sat there writing... it was really no nice day.
But after Statistics it got better... well, in statistics, to tell the truth, because I had somebody to talk to and to play the “null”-“nur”-game. This is a game I often play with Ling, because she hardly ever can pronounce “null” (this is German for zero) right. She can speak German quite well, I think, I would be happy, if I would be able to speak Chinese only half so good, but she has problems with all words which end with –ull. I don’t know really why... By the way, in the meantime she learnt to pronounce it right in every second case, so it isn’t so funny anymore.
After Statistics I went to some table with Ling, and we learned Chinese there and talked about anything. I like this lessons we normally have every day. But I only had time for two hours, then my Japanese course started (and, only to tell you, it is not a problem to learn Chinese and Japanese the same time, it helps me!). Japanese was nice, as usual, but not easy this time. We learnt the adjectives today, and there are so many new words to learn now... this is not easy for me, as I am really bad at learning words. I don’t have problems with the Japanese grammar, but I can’t really speak it, because of my lack of words.
After the course Sohar-sensei and I had more luck than ever in our last months using the train together: the train we never reached had 5 minutes delay and so we could use the direct train to Graz for the first time. I can remember us sitting in the cold because we missed this train and our next had about 30 minutes delay and then sitting in another train station again and then I arrived at home at 22.45... but today it was really perfect! I was at home at 20.00, this had never happened on a Thursday with Japanese course before.
After ages of nothing posted here I decide to try another restart of my blog. First of all, because I don’t have much contact to my friends from Brasília lately and secondly, because I think my life was and is (and, I hope, will be?) more interesting in the last weeks and now. I hope there will be someone out there reading this!
I think I will quit my daily system, because some days are really boring... I’ll only tell you about the more interesting days.
Latest News in my life:
I am 19 now (but I still forget about this often... ^^).
I am still single.
I am still learning Japanese.
I am still trying to learn Portuguese.
I am still thinking about a trip to Brazil.
I will have Easter holidays in two weeks (and these holidays will be great!).
And:
I started to learn Chinese.
Friday, 19th of March 2004
Chinese Day
This day there was a holiday in some province in Austria, including Styria, where I live. It was the day of Holy Josef. I had no lessons at university, but I had a test in chemistry. This test was the second of three I have to do during this semester. In the first test I had 6 of 14 points (this is good, because I only read through the notes once...). This time I hope I will get more points (I need, at least, 8,5 points).
After my test I met my new friend Yue Ling, the Chinese girl which teaches me Chinese. She is very nice and sweet. I will also write about here in my friends blog, I think. We learned a bit Chinese and talked a bit, like normal and like every day. Later there came some other Chinese students. I walked with them to the flat where one of them lives. We were a group of five guys, four Chinese and I. I was very glad. I always wanted to get to know the Chinese students, and now I know some of them!
At the flat we talked a lot about Austria and other things (I was so impressed, they know so much about Austrian history and such things!) and they borrowed me a book which is normally for Chinese children to learn Chinese... But the book is very good I think. We ate walnuts (what a strange word...) and they sang some Chinese children songs for me. And the best, I knew one of the songs, we also have a German version of it here, called “Bruder Jakob”. I think the song is originally from France, there it is called “Frère Jaques” (I think...).
Later Ling and I (I heard in China it is common to call people with there full name, but for me this sounds very cold...) walked to her flat. She cooked something Chinese there, onions with egg and broccoli (and rice, of course). And also a soup of champignons and Chinese mushrooms called Judas’ Ear. The onions and this were good, but it was sooo much, but the soup wasn’t so good for me... Then we looked through a book about China and Ling showed me a lot of her Chinese German-books and other things and also some photos. Then I had to go to train station. Ling walked with me. She is very kind and nice.
If I wouldn’t have met the Chinese students today, I could also call this day “Telephone Day”, because I think I have never talked to so many (or much??) different people on the phone at the same day. At Ling’s house my friend Jürgen called me. Just when we wanted to leave the house Bernhard called me and I still talked to him on the way to train station. On the way my mother called me then. And in train I called Tina, because it was here birthday.
Later in train my good mood vanished somehow, but I don’t want to destroy the description of this nice with this and I will write more about it in my second Interlude, “About Racism”.
Thursday, 18th of March 2004
Hardcore Day
I’ve called this day Hardcore Day, because I had sooo many lessons. As usual, it started at 8.15 in the morning. We had Mechanics first, it was boring, just as usual. Then we had (by the way, we is nobody special, all the students who where there) Statistics. And then Chemistry. And after that Statistics again (because of the holiday the next day). It was really tiring... I always sat at the same place, only not in Statistics, I sat next to Ling then. All lessons but the second Statistics where double-lessons, so you can imagine how long I sat there writing... it was really no nice day.
But after Statistics it got better... well, in statistics, to tell the truth, because I had somebody to talk to and to play the “null”-“nur”-game. This is a game I often play with Ling, because she hardly ever can pronounce “null” (this is German for zero) right. She can speak German quite well, I think, I would be happy, if I would be able to speak Chinese only half so good, but she has problems with all words which end with –ull. I don’t know really why... By the way, in the meantime she learnt to pronounce it right in every second case, so it isn’t so funny anymore.
After Statistics I went to some table with Ling, and we learned Chinese there and talked about anything. I like this lessons we normally have every day. But I only had time for two hours, then my Japanese course started (and, only to tell you, it is not a problem to learn Chinese and Japanese the same time, it helps me!). Japanese was nice, as usual, but not easy this time. We learnt the adjectives today, and there are so many new words to learn now... this is not easy for me, as I am really bad at learning words. I don’t have problems with the Japanese grammar, but I can’t really speak it, because of my lack of words.
After the course Sohar-sensei and I had more luck than ever in our last months using the train together: the train we never reached had 5 minutes delay and so we could use the direct train to Graz for the first time. I can remember us sitting in the cold because we missed this train and our next had about 30 minutes delay and then sitting in another train station again and then I arrived at home at 22.45... but today it was really perfect! I was at home at 20.00, this had never happened on a Thursday with Japanese course before.
