One Week Down
Well it has been a week since I have been back in Seattle. It is nice to be back here, but there is still a large part of me that wants to be back in Beijing. I am not sure if it is because I have only been gone for a week or if it is something more than that. Each time I see my friends online or I get an email I get excited that I can once again get in touch with them. I definitely do not want to lose touch with these friends.
Other than dealing with missing my friends I have been trying to deal with getting reacclimated to this place again. This includes getting used to seeing my friends again. Even though I have had long and strong relationships with a lot of my friends it is still somewhat of a shock to pick up things right where we left off four months ago. All my friends have been nice to me, so it has been pretty easy so far.
School is going alright. I am still playing catch up in a sense. I can not make up some of the tests I missed the first week, but I can definitely get a lot of the reading that I missed done. I am relieved that my classes are finally in English, except for my Chinese reading class. I feel like I am understanding things a lot more now and reading does not seem like such a chore. It is also nice to get back into more of the left brained subjects that I am used to. Learning linear optimization and computer organization and design is all of a sudden a lot more interesting. I hope I can do well in these classes and not succumb to just getting by like I have done in the past.
My next goal is to find another job. I am working for the Asian Languages and Literature department right now, but I think that my project is coming to an end soon. That means I won't have any source of income soon. I am thinking about finding a job where I can do some Java programming because I am getting a little tired of all this php programming I have been doing lately.
A great event coming up tomorrow is my friend's wedding. I want to say Congratulations! to Andre. I am really happy for him. I am really glad to see that he and his soon to be wife, Dare, have been together since high school. They stuck it out through college while attending different schools. Albeit, both schools were in Seattle, but there are plenty of couples who can not even make things work even when they go to the same school. I did not expect otherwise from these two though. They are both great people and I hope to see them together for many happy and joyous years to come.
I wonder who is the next couple to get married. Anyone want to make bets?
Other than dealing with missing my friends I have been trying to deal with getting reacclimated to this place again. This includes getting used to seeing my friends again. Even though I have had long and strong relationships with a lot of my friends it is still somewhat of a shock to pick up things right where we left off four months ago. All my friends have been nice to me, so it has been pretty easy so far.
School is going alright. I am still playing catch up in a sense. I can not make up some of the tests I missed the first week, but I can definitely get a lot of the reading that I missed done. I am relieved that my classes are finally in English, except for my Chinese reading class. I feel like I am understanding things a lot more now and reading does not seem like such a chore. It is also nice to get back into more of the left brained subjects that I am used to. Learning linear optimization and computer organization and design is all of a sudden a lot more interesting. I hope I can do well in these classes and not succumb to just getting by like I have done in the past.
My next goal is to find another job. I am working for the Asian Languages and Literature department right now, but I think that my project is coming to an end soon. That means I won't have any source of income soon. I am thinking about finding a job where I can do some Java programming because I am getting a little tired of all this php programming I have been doing lately.
A great event coming up tomorrow is my friend's wedding. I want to say Congratulations! to Andre. I am really happy for him. I am really glad to see that he and his soon to be wife, Dare, have been together since high school. They stuck it out through college while attending different schools. Albeit, both schools were in Seattle, but there are plenty of couples who can not even make things work even when they go to the same school. I did not expect otherwise from these two though. They are both great people and I hope to see them together for many happy and joyous years to come.
I wonder who is the next couple to get married. Anyone want to make bets?
posted by Jon Keto at
3:07 PM
4 Comments:
I bet Lawrence and Daniele are next!! hehe, only because I know they are planning to get married next year. I do wonder though, who is next...
Scrawled on the wall By
Anonymous, at 11:33 PM
Well I didn't know they were actually planning on it. I don't think I will make any bets now. How about after them? I think it might be a toss up after that.
Scrawled on the wall By
Jon Keto, at 1:59 PM
Hello Juan! Bienvenido to Seattle!! Do not worry about losing touch with the friends you made in China. Thanks to e-mail, the world is much smaller...and besides, who could forget a SEXXXXY guy like you?! ;)
Scrawled on the wall By
Anonymous, at 2:15 PM
I am not sure, but there are definitely people who could forget about me. I forget who they are. I guess they weren't sexy enough.
I have already spent too much time sending emails back to China. Instant messenger is the worst and because of the time difference I have been staying up later than I should. But it is great to talk to them, just like it was nice to talk to everyone here when I was in China.
Scrawled on the wall By
Jon Keto, at 11:42 PM
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