Jitters
Up until today I've been so unworried I was beginning to worry. I was glad to be done with all my work. I was glad to be trying something new. I was glad to be getting away from Brookline High and Brookline. I was even glad to leave my friends and my self-consuming social life. I was glad to be leaving. But I wasn't nervous, not in the least.
I suppose nervousness also entails excitement, and by that I guess I wasn't even excited to be leaving for China. I was simply glad in the same way I'm glad after finishing a huge project after staying up the whole night.
An interesting things happened today. We were in the library doing research for the "waste of time projects", and I suggested that we get lunch in ChinaTown. For the first time, the group seemed to be enthused without the encouragement of our teacher, Gaelen. We decided to tell Gaelen we wanted to get lunch, went up, told her, and left as a group. (minus Isaiah and Edna who were at a meeting) On the train, we were managing to avoid maintain awkward small talk, and everyone was engaged in real conversations.
Maybe it was just me, but I think the group has finally coalesced as more than classmates. So anways, after this experience I'm starting to feel excited and, as I said before, the excitement is bringing nervousness too. I realized today that I suck at Chinese. There's no better way to put it. I suck. The fact that my host family still hasn't responded to my introductory email yet is really making me nervous. What if noone's there to pick me up at the airport?!
Mais c'est la vie, non?
dAVID
posted by dAVID @ 4:48 PM
1 Comments:
we read, were just to lazy to respond.
no clue what you said there at the bottom but it doesnt look like any chinese ive ever seen, maybe spend more time learning less time blogging eh??
have fun in China
Phil B
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