2008/9/13 (六)
Today is fantastic!
But I’m too tired, and also now is already 15 past 23, so let’s just make the diary simple.
I had a morning coffee with Lynne in the Central Baptist Church, her treat. J
During the coffee, I met some other international students
and also had some conversation with the warm elderly people from that church.
After the coffee, me and two new friends, Kate (from China) and Hafsa (from Pakistan),
went to the Thomas coats memorial church to do sth. a little bit crazy—
climbing the tower with 200 winding stairs in a extremely narrow space!
Sometimes you could even see nothing when it’s totally dark! Well, actually, I felt faint after finishing it. @@
After that, Hafsa went back to hall, and Kate and I kept hanging around the town
for today is actually a doors open day. We visited the art galleries, town hall and Abbey (yeah, abbey again@@).
Anyway, that’s at least fine to take some walk on Saturday.
Then, Kate invited me to her flat to have lunch. Well, the soup was really not bad, Chinese flavour~
In fact, Hufsa is Kate’s flatmate, but I don’t think that Kate likes her.
During the lunch, Kate and I chatted for a very long time, and I thought I want to go back to my hall,
but Kate kept me for talking. Wow, I felt faint again after leaving her flat. @@
Friends International held a meal for international students and church leaders
in hopehall evangelical church this evening. My flatmate also went there.
She is cold, so we didn’t talk much during the meal, but it didn’t affect me any,
coz we had seats in different tables.
Oh, sth. forgot to say, Julie, the wife of the pastor in my current church,
was the one who picked me up to that meal and also brought another student from Ukraine.
To begin with, we had an icebreaker game, and then the meal (really a big one for me @@).
During the meal, we had to discuss about the CULTRUE issue.
Then, Lynne invited every table to release its thoughts, followed by a dessert time! (aou~ fat ar~~)
I had a smaller table group, including one elder English couple, one Scottish couple,
another Polish student and me. The Polish guy is a lit bit serious and the two church couples
are all very nice, especially the elderly English.
Before the meal finished, we prayed for a couple of things. During the prayer, I was weeping, secretly.
After doing some cleanings and taking pictures, Julie rushed me to go home.
I thought she was really tired coz I guessed she did a lot of things today and also she caught a cold.
I’m really enjoyed today (exhausted as well @@)
and I have to say thank you to Julie, Marry, and especially, Lynne and also, the Lord.
Now, I’m covered by school’s wireless again,
so I gave some info. about Friends International to Jesus, my Spanish friend.
I don’t know if he will like it coz he has told me that he doesn’t like church
(although he also said that he is christen @@). Anyway, I just wanted to tell him.
Ok, now, I’m really really sleepy and want to go to bed, good night~
2008/9 /15(一)
唉 真的是 心情起伏太大了… 就像這裡的天氣一樣
先說說很扯的上星期四
因為一直沒有收到任何有關enrolment or orientation的info. 就去問了Business School，
receptionist 也覺得很奇怪，就先把一些資料給了我，我問她為什麼還沒寄到，
她說是administration寄的，所以我又去了administration dept. (但稍後才知道我去的是student record)
我一看到資料就傻了眼，原來orientation就是明天，心想要是我今天沒來拿的話就真的很瞎了
(雖然後來去了以後也不過就是學校各處室簡介，但基本上還是算很重要的吧)
到了adm. Dept. (其實是SR)，我說我一直都沒收到任何的信件，是不是地址出了問題，
那婦女就說她去查一查，查完以後說：well, we sent them all to China. “China? You mean Taiwan??”
Yes, we sent them to your home. “why??!! I’ve lived here for more than one month!!”
we don’t have your address. “what?? You don’t have my address? I’m just living in George St.,
the hall of the university!” we don’t know, have you ever told us? “what!!!!????”
ok, now you can leave your new address here. “but all other depts. Of the uni know my address!”
well, we use different system. 媽勒 什麼new add. 我已經住在這裡多久了 你們還給我寄東西去台灣，
是智缺來著嗎？？ 什麼different system 那bank letter不就是你們開的嗎？
上面明明寫著我現在的地址，裝什麼傻呀？？懶就說嘛，藉口找的真爛！！
然後 跟她拿了enroll的資料 就走了
我覺得非常想殺人 就這樣
拜五一大早 去了orientation，果然，語言班的人一個都沒來，想必都是跟我一樣沒收到信，
所以來的大部分都是其他人種，一些不需要上語言班的人種，anyway，就是得到很多資訊，
也吃了一些點心；重點是，把戶沒開成的事告訴了mr.庄，
他就說幫我去問問他們部門的manager，彷彿 我又看到一絲生機…
