I have just realized that I have left my xanga site abandoned for several months (since the UK Tour) Suddenly want to type here as this will be a long passage which I don't feel convenient to post on facebook Though the readership here is limited, it is alright as this can anyway serve as a way out for me... CAMBRIDGE LIFE IS INTENSE (perhaps my feeling intensive is also related to that terrible incident which I still cannot, and probably will not in due course, get it dispersed) I know that I come here for studying, but the reality is that I cannot just focus on studies The problem is academically things are intensive, both in terms of time constraint and level of difficulty (though it's not that fair to conclude after attending only one lecture) The introduction lecture is already hard to grasp, and tomorrow will immediately be the seminar -- plus two other lectures OMG Things should be better after 4 weeks when I will have only two courses left, but before that, i.e. the first month, is the toughest because socially and culturally still not quite adjusted yet Becaues of weariness I'm not that active into meeting new friends (esp having the thought that they will most probably be hi-bye friends who when you meet another day you will not be able to recall his/her name) Nevertheless, I (and Francis) got to know an American girl who has been staying in HK for one and a half years before and can speak Cantonese really very well! No wonder, though I didn't think of that, because she was a Mormon missonary. Putting aside religious view it's really nice to know her. I'd be excited to meet her in HK later if chance be (she did say she hope to return to HK to get a teaching job after her graduation in December) Another friend we met is a Mainlander who is studying in the States. He speaks Putonghua, but of course we communicate in English. One of the thing that I don't quite like is that the whole programme is like, 80% from the States (or even more) and most from UCLA - I guess there is some sort of connection traditionally between the two universities. We are virtually studying in an American university now (though my Romanticism teacher is genuinely British). I am really physically exhausted, but still got loads of things to read before lecture. I need power. Please pray for me if you may. I hope I can enjoy more with better state of mind. | 
