I took Wen's advice last week -- preparing for the speech less, and it really worked! Preparing a speech too much is not always a good thing. Sometimes we will have more expectation in ourselves and try to memorize the way we prepare for it. This week, I tried to prepare for it just enough to meet the standard -- expressing myself according to the outline. I got all positive critiques today. I was really happy and finally got the joy people said after presentation.
After that, it was my Thursday afternoon! I got Wen's msg in Oral Training about her skipping the investment class and her cute little complaint. I called her when I walked down the stairs and she would call me after her arrival. Peter must understand why I was speaking in English to somebody in Taiwan with enthusiasm because he have been to ALC. I waited for Wen's call in 5F lab chatting with one of my closer classmates. I was so glad that she said I am the person who looks more like going to study graduate school abroad than every other senior students in our department. I was impressed by her words. It seems that I am a person who communicate with other people well, especially new friends well. That's what people told me and the personality of mine that I found even clearer during ALC. I think going abroad is really what I should do and what I would like to do. In my opinion, I express myself in a way more similar to the way Americans do than what Taiwanese do. I miss the girl I interviewed in Tresiddor for the single question survey that Gen gave us as homework. She expressed herself in a confident but not arrogant way. She knew what she want and had her own opinions. Also, she didn't feel offended when I phrase my may-be-offensive question in a polite and concerned way.
After jumping out of the lab with excitement, I met Wen in the parking lot of Building 2. Wen and I decided to walk around since we didn't know where to go. We bought Coke and diet Coke in seven and a sandwich as my lunch and dinner. Seeing the drinks we had, I missed the time we ate meals on couch having Pepsi, diet coke, milk, fat-free milk or whatever we used to have form dinning hall. We sat besides the square LuMing on the bench and then had our kind of afternoon tea.
The wind blew heavily today. Wen's coat was so cool and so suitable for her. We had a wonderful chat about everything as usual. I felt my English is getting worse days after days, but Wen's doesn't. I want to practice more. I really hope that I can go to Washington. There was one thing I discussed with Wen and felt amazing was that we aren't afraid that not physically staying with each other will cut our friendship. Of course we will miss each other a lot and have even more different life, but somehow I know that we will always be like this, between family and friend.
We talked about guys and what we cared in a relationship again. We reached some consensus that we ask for many things indeed but that's what we deserved. Maybe some one will say we are arrogant. I disagree with that. It's nothing wrong to have a good life. If there is somebody can't accept other's living style while not affecting their life, that's their own problem. Wen is right. We are lucky. We are not going to say we deserve it because so far we didn't earn our own living. People have to accept that every one has different life. This also reminded me of the social class issue discussed in Gen's class. Of course, it's easier to get along with people in the similar social class. But if we are mature enough to accept other's life which is better or not as good as yours, then we can have even more in our life. I have some friends or family who are much richer than me, and they spend money in a generous way. Somebody will say they waste a lot of money, but I will say they just spend what they have. Helping others is indeed a good thing, but it's not necessary for every one to have mercy toward others and we don't know if they want us to.
After the nice afternoon with Wen, Wen gave me a ride to Sogo FuShin in order to meet my mother and pay for my shoes ordered yesterday. I don't know why, recently I like motorcycle more, especially when I wasn't in a good mood. It's colder today and the wind was heavy. After hugging each other and saying good-bye, I stepped in Sogo. After meeting my Mom and making sure that shoes of Tod's was really worth the price by checking all the shoes at B1 floor, we finally wen to Tod's for our mission today. As many of you may know, I am addicted to beautiful paper bag. Tod's didn't make a exception here. I asked for one more bag successfully. I rearrange my box for paper bag the other day, and found that the bags I have are kind of shopping record of my family. I need to do some paper work about that and then some day I will post it here.
The shopping part will be divided into the next article due to the categorizing issue.
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