About yesterday

Yesterday was our first day of classes...

SO MANY CLASSES!!!!

If you took the time to check out our schedule you might understand why we are all so tired...

Our Prof. Chiu Cheng is a genius... he got a scholarship to go to school in the us where he worked for 30 something years and today benefits from American retirement and social security....

Chiu Cheng knows everyone everywhere... he was world with the World Bank and some huge insurance companies all over the world... too bad that a human being's attention and concentration span is completely gone way before the 6 hrs we were sitting in the same chair with NO BREAKS!!!!

I mean... what if someone has to poop??!! Oh and if you do decide to go to the bathroom, even if just to pee... you have to deal with those holes they use as toilets.... gross

Jen speculates that the toilets stink because of the different foods that they eat... i think the pee is just all over the floor for so long that it rots.

um ok... back to the schedule of events (for some reason the word schedule does not get out of my head recently... TRAUMAAAAAAA)

In class we discussed the differences between east and west... We learned about how parents here have the "syndrome" of overprotecting their kids.... truly interesting stuff!

Pfsr Cheng's view of children here though is a little too aggressive for me. He thinks that the kids here are lazy bums and do nothing because their parents pay for their education and even for their dates!!! SINCE THE SUFFER NO HARDSHIP, THEY DO NOT WORK HARD...

In big part he is right.... but his emphasis on how students should go to AMEEEERICAAAA and never come back is not my favorite....

Its almost cute how he really believes that the US is open minded and creative...
I tried to comment on that but I dont think my thought were well received...

For me, these two characteristics (open mindedness and creativity) go hand in hand with curiosity and knowledge about what is different and foreign and experiencing these diverse things... (travelling being a major way to find this diversity and open your mind... ) Not enough Americans think like this for me to consider them open minded as a population in general .

Ill remember Prsr. Cheng as a super knowledgeable man in shorts with somewhat biased opinions... Ill also remember that some of the things he was saying were due to the very long time he was given to speak ....

We went to a reception dinner at Taichung city and I ate black skin chicken for the first time (tastes just like chicken)!!!
We were super tired but it was fun! We sat with Renee and Tina and Jennifer, the 3 secretaries of the Director of this program, who have some influence over "the schedule"....

I think I managed to convince them that some changes are necessary... AND I got them to take me to get my mattress/ memory foam... YAY!







Lesson learned: Professors here and EXTREMELY grade, ranking, and statistics oriented...

Pfsr. Chin-ing today was still bitter about here ONE B+ in college that ruined her 4.0.... SERIOUSLY!!!!!

ok nap time then ill tell you guys more about today....