2015年12月22日 星期二

In the past three months and the coming days, they are all practice for me. A transition and practice.

2015年12月8日 星期二

Hey there, this is the last week of my 1st semester in Nott

Time flies and here's the last week of my first semester in uk. I am now preparing for my French oral exam tmr morning but I keep procrastinating lol

Can't believe that I have been cooking and taking care of myself for three months already. It feels like it becomes part of my life and I can manage it quite well already. Every beginning is the hardest and I believe that period is going away. I am getting into another stage of my life here in uk. I can't really predict what's going to happen next semester but I really hope that I can blend in quite well and find my sense of belonging in UoN.

To be honest, things and experiences I learnt here are quite out of my expectation. I mean, I do foresee that I am going to learn some specific things like taking care of myself and arranging my own schedule, something like that. But the more I observe and experience, I found there are actually so much to learn and to digest what I have observed. This is a love-hate feelings because I feel like I am an outsider somehow.

I have just finished my first media presentation here and I can surely tell that I can work much much better than that but seriously the culture problems are really a problem for an asian in uk. People here don't work in the way I have been working on in the past 20 years. I am trying to understand and find out what's the differences but I can't tell it in words. The feelings and atmospheres are just so different from ours.

For my life here, I really do have enough space to work on my own thing, think and talk to myself regularly. Sometimes, it's a bit too much (haha). I go to gym and fencing regularly. I have a quite stable life and church life as well. But I feel like there's something missing. I am not sure what is it but I am trying to figure it out as well. Keep exploring what I can do here to expand myself and gain more insights since living here in uk really need self-motivation. People here and the environment can easily make me feel too chill and relax, then a day gone by. I don't really want my days here live in this way. At least, I think I need a direction to work on. Like a more specific one. Either a personal project that I can keep working on or a part-time job that I can learn more life experiences.

And yea, just a random chitchat because I don't want to work on my French oral exam... ttyl X