After a whole week of rainy days, the sun eventually shines on my bed this morning. My friend, Lee, had a certificate test today, so I decided to take her to a restaurant near Da-Dong night market, which is around 2 km from our dormitary. Since the test ended at 12:10 according to her earlier conversation with me, I went out with my bike at 12 straight to our department, where the test was held. After waiting for nearly half an hour, I finally heard the bell rang and saw Lee walking down the stairs. Before long, due to our starvation, we began our journey to delicacy.
I gave her a ride because her bike had broken down due to the lately rain. On our way to the restaurant, she kept complaining about my dangerous riding skills, and I kept complaining about her weight. Soon we arrived at our destination, an Italian restaurant named "is". As soon as we approached the front door, feeling a roar of relief from our stomach, the clerk made an annoucement to bring us from heaven to hell. "Sorry, we are fully occupied." Sadly walked out of the restaurant, I found that the blackboard outside read "class reunion for XX elementary school." Alright.... no wonder.
Thank God that there are a bunch of restaurants in the neighburhood so that we at once chose another Italian restaurant named "Palliser".
Upon entering the restaurant, the inner design caught my eyes immediately. I couldn't find a specific word to define the style, but it really gave customers a sense of coming home -- an old-fashioned motorcycle was laid in front of the front door, plenty of black-and-white photos hanged on the wall, and the harmonious atmosphere. We were seated near a fancy-look couple and a family of young father, mother, and a pair of adorable kids. I ordered a set called Seafood Spaghetti with Ink Fish, including salad, bread, soup, main dish, beverage, and dessert.
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How long has it been since the last time I saw a colorful firework booming in the sky? I couldn't give an exact answer to myself, but I did see horrible firework bombarding in my life recently.
The final exams are around the cornor, can't wait to eat me alive little by little, kill me softly, and bury me in the sea of horrible grades. However, I've got a lot of other ativities to prepare from the guitar club, including three performances, one concert which is held by the senior classmates and one lecture or some kind of conference that I was told to attend. Honestly speaking, I don't really want to go the concert or the lecture that much since I knew it well that I must die in the spot because of the unfinished assignment piling on my desk. Perhaps such opportunity is few and far betwee, but it just comes at the wrong period of time. I felt helpless, had the slightest idea of what to do.
I tried to make myself clear. I am extremely tired after the whole week bombarded by schoolworks, guitars, camps, the presentation, the English drama (actually I didn't act I was just a receptionist), to name just a few. I felt that I did nothing good this whole semester, which is a sheer disappointment. However, I've made a conclusion that I enrolled in way too many things, so I can't get any of them perfect. Besides, I have passion, but not enough. I would rather have a lot of personal time staying in the dorm or just relax myself by fooling around. I kept myself toooooooooooooooooooooo busy and exhausted.
I desided to make a change in my life. I won't step into the vicious cycle again. It's time to face the truth.
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2012-05-25, the annual play of graduates of 2012 class
At the beginning of this semester, I had been informed that it would be a official performance at near the end of this semester, starred by our senior classmates. The annual play would be presented in their second foriegn languages, including Japanese, German, French, Spanish, and sometimes, Russian. It's hard to imagine how to tackle those troubles while memorizing the lines in such a not-so-familiar language since we've done several play in English in our literature class, which we considered as a sort of nightmare.
Despite of the fact that I was not actually taking part in the performance, I was merely one of the staff behind the dazzling scenes. Being a receptionist, I was forced to wear a little black dress and black shoes. All of my friends know well that I am anything but elegant and sophisticated. Instead, tank-top, jhort, and filp-flops suit me far better. However, I should get rid of the real me and be a lady this night. Only this time, I promised myself.
After oral training class, I rushed to Cheng Kung Hall for the preparation of the performance. Finishing my lunch briefly, I started to decorate the reception desk with papers, the stairs with light sticks, and myself with the cosmatics. Obiviously, I knew totally nothing about make-up. As a result, I was at the mercy of my dear classmate, a party girl good at dressing up. I asked her to simply do the eyes part since the process of make-up removing is extremely troublesome and tiring. Fortunately, although I am not an inborn beauty, at least it doesn't take too much eye-liner to make my eyes brighter. Thank God!
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  • May 20 Sun 2012 23:23

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Recently, pouring rain is dictating Tainan all day long, leaving us college students forced to be dorm-bound. It is absolutely not convenient at all to go out on such rainy days. After all, no one would like to get wet, and get all the clothing messed up. However, despite the troubles rainy days bring into my ordinary life, it somewhat invite me to a different world where I feel refreshed and thus regain my energy to encounter the following challenges in my life.
 
AM 1:00, Saturday, my friend and I started our trip to Taipei.
 
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Hey Mom,
 
How’s everything? It’s been quite a long time since the last time I came home thanks to the invalid ATM card. Sorry for never take the initiate to call you or text you unless several problems took place. Sorry for always turn down your invitation to have a meal together at weekends.
 
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Time flies. I have arrived in the middle of this semester without being aware. In other words, I will not be a freshman any longer in two months. How ridiculous! I am still ignorant about numerous places, rules, or anything in NCKU. I am still missing my carefree, schoolwork-bound high school life.
Still, no matter how astonished I am, it's time for me to have a reflection in myself.
Although my schedule has been exceedingly tight since the beginning of this semester, I felt aimless on occasion, getting lost in the vast ocean floating heavy schoolwork and busy activities. Last month was indeed a catastrophe which I could barely handle all the tasks I was required to finish. I spared no efforts to get all of them done, but it isn't hard to understand that all of them were not "perfectly" done.
Speaking of schoolwork, a sense of guilty soon climbed up my mind. Despite the extended hours I spent on my midterm exam, my hard work did not live up to my former expectation. I felt truly uncomfortable upon answering on the sheet, in which the English words were dancing complex folk dance I could not follow up. Moreover, I got dark clouds haunting over my head, winding round and round.
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Travel soothe the pain life loads on me, always.
After an exhausting week bombarded by midterm exams and the singing competition, I finally could relax by treating myself a trip to Hsinchu and Tauyaun, for visiting my high school friends who go to college there. In fact, the trip had long beed recorded in my schedule since the beginning of this semester.
Take the 9:26 train at Tainan with my backpack. I started my own adventure.
I was seated beside an old woman who took off the train at Taichung. Because of the exam on Monday, I first took out the vocabulary I was required to memorize. However, I felt sleepy after a short while and began to listen to the music on my mobile. Three hours passed by much quickler than my former imagination. Before long, I was standing outside Hsinchu Train Station, waitting for my friend to pick me up.
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I was invited to have a presentation to share my study tour to London. While arranging the photos I took in London, the stream of memories strongly flapped my tranquil heart again.
 
I miss my host family a lot. There are three people in my host family, my home dad, my home mom, and my home sister who is a cute 8-year-old girl crazy about Super Mario. In my host family, the atmosphere is sweet and warm all the time.
 
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I was not lucky enough to have a room in the dorm next semester. However, I do regard it as a blessing in disguise.
 
Living in the most terrible dorm for one whole semester already, I have been fed up with the inconvenience. First of all, since we don’t have our own bathroom, we can only use the public ones which are always filled with other people’s hair and footsteps. Disgusting! What’s worse, we don’t have our own refrigerator in each of our rooms, so we have to take the risk of being stolen while putting our stuff in public frige. In fact, my yogurts and milk was stolen right at the beginning of last semester, namely, when I was still too fresh to face the dark side of humanity. Although I have two lovely, considerate roommates, Lee is not as fortunate as I am. Her roommates life styles are way too different from hers. For instance, when she goes to bed, her roommates wouldn’t turn off the light, which to me is a little ridiculous because of their lack of politeness. To our relief, this kind of situation can be avoided once and for all – we are going to move out!
 
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The sun ray shone through the window, lighting up my shabby room. A heavy, brick-like book was lying under the touch of my finger. Picking up a cup of Caramel Macchiatto, I took an elegant sip to enjoy the refreshment and fragrance. A lazy yet casual afternoon kept going.
 
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A two-page letter with two movie tickets means more than everything. I retrieved the vigor to tackle the tight schedule which has been torturing me recently.
It was a hot, summer-like afternoon. I was walking along my daily routine, recovering from the hell of phonology quiz. Occupied by the sudden relief of nightmare, I neglected there was a letter with neat handwriting laying in my mailbox. Lee reminded me of its existence.
"Trista!" I yelled in surprise. She is now a journalism major studying in NCCU, nothern Taiwan.
I could never forget how we become friends. Quiet and tender, she always sat in the corner of the classroom, enjoying her own little space self-pleasedly. On the contrary, I bore a communicative character among our classmates. Obviously, we were living in totally different planets then, but we ended up perfectly getting along with each other.
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I enrolled in two elections for different types of activities during this exhausting week. First the election for bands in the guitar group, second one is the election for being a part of the camp our department is holding.
I have long considered myself a shy person. Feeling easy and cozy while getting along with friends, I still can't introduce myself as an "outward" person, no matter how crazy I am among the aquaintances. Nevertheless, to me, going to college gave me a new sight of myself. For example, I have to sing (or even ACT! nightmare to me) in front of audience who I had never seen before. After few times of auditon, I don't get that many butterflies in my stomach now, but the feeling is strange.
The most impressing motto that my department taught me is from my Literature teacher - Be shameless. Upon hearing she shared this with me and my fellow classmates, I can't help but laugh. What a ridiculous request. As time went by, I accepted her perspective little by little. As an English major, we ofter have to go on stage to have our presentation in whatever style, such as giving a lecture or acting. Last semester, I even had an opportunity to interview a foreigner in my oral training class!
We are told that we should blueprint our future while studying in college, but I just can't decide which way to choose now. One of my friend made up her mind to take the exam for being a public servant, while others are considering taking teaching courses. I am confused. Either linguistics or literature, um, maybe English teaching. But they are not my type really. I feel myself floating in the world fulled with multiple choices. But I love the department of foreign languages and literature for sure. I just can't figure out who I want to be.
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