Monday, December 13, 2010

2 weeks worth of CAS

Posted by 雯雯 at 10:12 PM 0 comments
Week 48
Piano: 6 hours (incl. one recital)

Week 49
Piano: 6 hours 30 minutes (incl. one recital)
School creative session: 1 hour 30 minutes

Total Desember
Creativity - 14 hours
Action - 0 hours
Service - 0 hours

Grand Total:
Creativity - 54 hours 10 minutes
Action - 19 hours 20 minutes
Service - 20 hours 30 minutes

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

November recap + stuff

Posted by 雯雯 at 10:39 AM 0 comments
Adding four hours of piano to my grand total! ALSO adding some volunteer work I did..

Total November (22 hours):
Creativity - 20 hours 30 minutes
Action - 1 hour 30 minutes
Service - 1 hour

As a note:

Grand Total:
Creativity - 54 hours 10 minutes
Action - 19 hours 20 minutes
Service - 20 hours 30 minutes

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Messy update

Posted by 雯雯 at 10:13 AM 0 comments
Here's a messy updates with activities I don't know where go!!

Piano: 9 hours 30 minutes
Judo: 1 hour 30 minutes

Total November (17 hours):
Creativity - 15 hours 30 minutes
Action - 1 hour 30 minutes
Service - 0 hours

Gosh, I need to do more stuff D:
As a note:

Grand Total:
Creativity - 49 hours 10 minutes
Action - 19 hours 20 minutes
Service - 19 hours 30 minutes

88 hours

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Uke 45 and 46

Posted by 雯雯 at 5:34 PM 0 comments
November:
Week 45
Piano practice + Lesson - 4 hours
Japanese sessions - 1 hour
Week 46
Piano practice - 1 hour

Total:
Creativity - 6 hours
Action - 0 hours
Service - 0 hours

Monthly recap October

Posted by 雯雯 at 5:29 PM 0 comments
Total September:
Creativity - 17 hours 30 minutes
Action - 13 hours 30 minutes
Service - 12 hours

43 hours

Total October:
Creativity - 16 hours 10 minutes
Action - 4 hours 20 minutes
Service - 7 hours 30 minutes

28 hours

Total:
Creativity - 33 hours 40 minutes
Action - 17 hours 50 minutes
Service - 19 hours 30 minutes

71 hours

Monday, November 1, 2010

Action in September

Posted by 雯雯 at 3:09 PM 0 comments
Oh no! I forgot to record our Sports Day on the 27th of September! It lasted for 3 hours and 20 minutes..

September:
27th: Sports day -3 hours 20 minutes

October:
Week 39 (1 hours 30 minutes)
1st: Piano practice - 1 hour
2nd: Piano practice - 30 minutes
Week 40
---
Week 41 (4 hours)
11th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
12th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
13th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
14th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
15th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
16th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
17th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
Week 42 (3 hour 5 minutes)
18th: Baking in school - 1 hour
18th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
19th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
21st: Piano lesson - 50 minutes
24rd: Tv-aksjonen - 1 hr 30 minutes
Week 43 (1 hour 45 minutes)
25th: Japanese - 15 minutes
25th: CAS Creative Session (Origami and sushi) - 1 hour
26th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
27th: Japanese - 20 minutes
27th: Piano practice - 1 hour 30 minutes
28th: Piano lesson and practice - 1 hours 30 minutes
28th: Judo practice - 1 hour 30 minutes
29th: Halloween party - 6 hours (pulling together all the hours spent on this project here)

Total:
Creativity - 16 hours 10 minutes
Action - 4 hours 20 minutes
Service - 7 hours 30 minutes

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Week 43 End!

Posted by 雯雯 at 11:59 AM 0 comments
October:
Week 39 (1 hours 30 minutes)
1st: Piano practice - 1 hour
2nd: Piano practice - 30 minutes
Week 40
---
Week 41 (4 hours)
11th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
12th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
13th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
14th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
15th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
16th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
17th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
Week 42 (3 hour 5 minutes)
18th: Baking in school - 1 hour
18th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
19th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
21st: Piano lesson - 50 minutes
24rd: Tv-aksjonen - 1 hr 30 minutes
Week 43 (1 hour 45 minutes)
25th: Japanese - 15 minutes
25th: CAS Creative Session (Origami and sushi) - 1 hour
26th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
27th: Japanese - 20 minutes
27th: Piano practice - 1 hour 30 minutes
28th: Piano lesson and practice - 1 hours 30 minutes
28th: Judo practice - 1 hour 30 minutes
29th: Halloween party - 6 hours (pulling together all the hours spent on this project here)

Total:
Creativity - 16 hours 10 minutes
Action - 1 hours 30 minutes
Service - 7 hours 30 minutes

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Piano and Japanese MOAR

Posted by 雯雯 at 10:43 PM 1 comments
Piano and Japanese, yaddayadda

October:
Week 39 (1 hours 30 minutes)
1st: Piano practice - 1 hour
2nd: Piano practice - 30 minutes
Week 40
---
Week 41 (4 hours)
11th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
12th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
13th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
14th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
15th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
16th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
17th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
Week 42 (3 hour 5 minutes)
18th: Baking in school - 1 hour
18th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
19th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
21st: Piano lesson - 50 minutes
24rd: Tv-aksjonen - 1 hr 30 minutes
Week 43 (1 hour 45 minutes)
25th: Japanese - 15 minutes
25th: CAS Creative Session (Origami and sushi) - 1 hour
26th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
27th: Japanese - 20 minutes
27th: Piano practice - 1 hours 30 minutes

Total:
Creativity - 14 hours 40 minutes
Action - 0 hours
Service - 1 hour 30 minutes

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Week 43 part 1!

Posted by 雯雯 at 3:42 PM 0 comments
Piano, CAS and Japanese, yaddayadda

October:
Week 39 (1 hours 30 minutes)
1st: Piano practice - 1 hour
2nd: Piano practice - 30 minutes
Week 40
---
Week 41 (4 hours)
11th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
12th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
13th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
14th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
15th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
16th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
17th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
Week 42 (3 hour 5 minutes)
18th: Baking in school - 1 hour
18th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
19th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
21st: Piano lesson - 50 minutes
24rd: Tv-aksjonen - 1 hr 30 minutes
Week 43 (1 hour 45 minutes)
25th: Japanese - 15 minutes
25th: CAS Creative Session (Origami and sushi) - 1 hour
26th: Piano practice - 30 minutes

Total:
Creativity - 12 hours 50 minutes
Action - 0 hours
Service - 1 hour 30 minutes

Monday, October 25, 2010

Wrap-up week 42

Posted by 雯雯 at 9:14 AM 0 comments
Adding two more things for last week, my piano lesson and TV-aksjonen!

October:
Week 39 (1 hours 30 minutes)
1st: Piano practice - 1 hour
2nd: Piano practice - 30 minutes
Week 40
---
Week 41 (4 hours)
11th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
12th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
13th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
14th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
15th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
16th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
17th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
Week 42 (3 hour 5 minutes)
18th: Baking in school - 1 hour
18th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
19th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
21st: Piano lesson - 50 minutes
24rd: Tv-aksjonen - 1 hr 30 minutes

Total:
Creativity - 11 hours 5 minutes
Action - 0 hours
Service - 1 hour 30 minutes

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Start of week 42

Posted by 雯雯 at 11:52 AM 0 comments
Trying to get off at a better start this week, so here goes..

October:
Week 39 (1 hours 30 minutes)
1st: Piano practice - 1 hour
2nd: Piano practice - 30 minutes
Week 40
---
Week 41 (4 hours)
11th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
12th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
13th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
14th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
15th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
16th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
17th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
Week 42 (1 hour 45 minutes)
18th: Baking in school - 1 hour
18th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
19th: Japanese session - 15 minutes

Total:
Creativity - 10 hours 15 minutes
Action - 0 hours
Service - 0 hours

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Week 41 Activities

Posted by 雯雯 at 12:34 PM 0 comments
Soooo, I've been quite lazy lately. Well, battling motivation, mostly. This is what I did this week :o


October:
Week 39 (1 hours 30 minutes)
1st: Piano practice - 1 hour
2nd: Piano practice - 30 minutes
Week 40
---
Week 41 (3 hours 30 hours)
11th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
12th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
13th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
14th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
15th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
16th: Piano practice - 30 minutes

Total:
Creativity - 8 hours
Action - 0 hours
Service - 0 hours

8 hours

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Lazy holiday

Posted by 雯雯 at 3:12 PM 0 comments
So I've not been doing much so far into the holiday, but I did practice piano earlier (I was too lazy to write it down though)

October:
1st: Piano practice - 1 hour
2nd: Piano practice - 30 minutes

Total:
Creativity - 1 hour 30 minutes
Action - 0 hours
Service - 0 hours

1 hour 30 minutes

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Monthly recap September (and August)!

Posted by 雯雯 at 7:14 PM 0 comments
Last day of September!
Also, almost the last day before autumn holidays ;o
I thought I'd do a recap of everything I've done this month!

August:
20th-21st: Teambuilding at Raje - 8 hours (7 action 1 creativity)
26th: Creative session at school - 1 hour 45 minutes

September:
6th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
7th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
9th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
10th: Japanese session - 60 minutes
11th: Cooking session - 4 hours
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
13th: Website session - 30 minutes
13th: Tennis with class - 2 hours
14th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
14th: Judo practice - 1 hours 30 minutes
15th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
16th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
19-23rd: Hosting - 12 hours
20th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
21st: Judo practice - 1 hour 30 minutes
23rd: Piano lesson - 45 minutes
22nd: Judo practice - 1 hour 30 minutes
24th: Piano practice - 1 hour
26th: Piano practice - 1 hour
27th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
27th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
29th: Piano practice - 30 minutes
30th: Piano lesson - 45 minutes

RECAP:
Japanese: 5 hours 15 minutes
Piano: 5 hours
Judo: 4 hours 30 minutes
Website: 30 minutes
School activities: 23 hours 45 minutes
Other: 4 hours

Total:
Creativity - 17 hours 30 minutes
Action - 13 hours 30 minutes
Service - 12 hours

43 hours

I suspect there are some inconsistencies x__x
Damn you, small sessions!

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Piano and Japanese

Posted by 雯雯 at 10:00 PM 0 comments
September:
6th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
7th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
9th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
10th: Japanese session - 60 minutes
11th: Cooking session - 4 hours
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
13th: Website session - 30 minutes
14th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
14th: Judo practice - 1 hours 30 minutes
15th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
16th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
19-23rd: Hosting - 12 hours
20th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
21st: Judo practice - 1 hour 30 minutes
23rd: Piano lesson - 45 minutes
22nd: Judo practice - 1 hour 30 minutes
24th: Piano practice - 1 hour
26th: Piano practice - 1 hour
27th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
27th: Piano practice - 30 minutes

Total:
39 hours 15 minutes

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Piano practice 1 and 2

Posted by 雯雯 at 2:47 PM 0 comments
So I had roughly one hours practice on Friday, and one today...
I seem to have a vast majority of "Creativity" activities D: I should find a way to even it out..


September:
6th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
7th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
9th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
10th: Japanese session - 60 minutes
11th: Cooking session - 4 hours
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
13th: Website session - 30 minutes
14th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
14th: Judo practice - 1 hours 30 minutes
15th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
16th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
19-23rd: Hosting - 12 hours
20th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
21st: Judo practice - 1 hour 30 minutes
23rd: Piano lesson - 45 minutes
22nd: Judo practice - 1 hour 30 minutes
24th: Piano practice - 1 hour
26th: Piano practice - 1 hour

Total:
38 hours 15 minutes

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Judo practice!

Posted by 雯雯 at 9:23 PM 0 comments
I got thoroughly beat up during judo practice today! My body is filled with bruises, and my back hurts from a bad handstanding roll, and it's all good -w-
I bailed out when it came to the sparring though, and I'm so ashamed! Next time, I'll get thrown around with my head held high.

September:
6th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
7th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
9th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
10th: Japanese session - 60 minutes
11th: Cooking session - 4 hours
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
13th: Website session - 30 minutes
14th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
14th: Judo practice - 1 hours 30 minutes
15th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
16th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
19-23rd: Hosting - 12 hours
20th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
21st: Judo practice - 1 hour 30 minutes
23rd: Piano lesson - 45 minutes
22nd: Judo practice - 1 hour 30 minutes


Total:
36 hours 15 minutes

ACTIVITIES

Posted by 雯雯 at 9:21 AM 0 comments
and lots of them!
Including 1 and a half hour of judo on the 21st, an estimated 3x4 hours of hosting duties (that include food making, transport and cleaning) in addition to 45 minutes of piano.

Edit: Forgot to add judo practice on the 14th.

September:
6th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
7th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
9th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
10th: Japanese session - 60 minutes
11th: Cooking session - 4 hours
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
13th: Website session - 30 minutes
14th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
14th: Judo practice - 1 hours 30 minutes
15th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
16th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
19-23rd: Hosting - 12 hours
20th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
21st: Judo practice - 1 hour 30 minutes
23rd: Piano lesson - 45 minutes


Total:
34 hours 45 minutes

Monday, September 20, 2010

Japanese session 9

Posted by 雯雯 at 12:28 PM 0 comments
After a brief break, I'm back on track and had another Japanese session.

September:
6th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
7th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
9th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
10th: Japanese session - 60 minutes
11th: Cooking session - 4 hours
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
13th: Website session - 30 minutes
14th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
15th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
16th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
20th: Japanese session - 30 minutes

Total:
19 hours 30 minutes

Friday, September 17, 2010

Japanese session 7 and 8

Posted by 雯雯 at 9:41 AM 0 comments
I had two sessions of Japanese on Wednesday and Thursday, at 30 minutes and 45 minutes respectively

September:
6th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
7th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
9th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
10th: Japanese session - 60 minutes
11th: Cooking session - 4 hours
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
13th: Website session - 30 minutes
14th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
15th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
16th: Japanese session - 45 minutes

Total:
19 hours

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Japanese Session 6

Posted by 雯雯 at 12:57 PM 0 comments
I had an inspiring vocab session!

September:
6th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
7th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
9th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
10th: Japanese session - 60 minutes
11th: Cooking session - 4 hours
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
13th: Website session - 30 minutes
14th: Japanese session - 30 minutes

Total:
17 hours 45 minutes

Monday, September 13, 2010

Website session 1

Posted by 雯雯 at 12:39 PM 0 comments
I started on my website project today, and managed to finish some of the basic... stuff. I'm very bad at coding haha. Also, it's not on the net, just on my computer. Doubt that I'll ever get it on net either.

ANYWAYS

September:
6th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
7th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
9th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
10th: Japanese session - 60 minutes
11th: Cooking session - 4 hours
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
13th: Website session - 30 minutes

Total:
17 hours 15 minutes

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Japanese Session 5

Posted by 雯雯 at 9:54 PM 0 comments
So I had a short Japanese session today as well, after most of my weekend homework had been finished. Speaking of, I should really try to start on that web page... Humm.

I studied a wollop of vocab and repeated some grammar.

September:
6th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
7th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
9th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
10th: Japanese session - 60 minutes
11th: Cooking session - 4 hours
12th: Japanese session - 30 minutes

Total:
16 hours 45 minutes

Cooking Session

Posted by 雯雯 at 9:48 PM 0 comments
So a classmate and I got together and tried to make som interesting, foreign food. We made this.

I'm not sure whether this actually counts as a CAS activity, but I'm giving it a try anyway :p

Anyways, this is how it stands now:

September:
6th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
7th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
9th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
10th: Japanese session - 60 minutes
11th: Cooking session - 4 hours

Total:
16 hours 15 minutes

Friday, September 10, 2010

Japanese Session 3 and 4

Posted by 雯雯 at 9:25 AM 0 comments
I had a little break with nothing to do, so I had a short vocabulary session. (Which continued later in the day and added a good deal of minutes to my studying)
(I apparently also had a session on the 9th that I managed to delete from this blog)

September:
6th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
7th: Japanese session - 15 minutes
9th: Japanese session - 30 minutes
10th: Japanese session - 60 minutes

Total:
12 hours 15 minutes

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Japanese Session 2

Posted by 雯雯 at 11:52 AM 0 comments
Another day, another opportunity to do useful stuff!

I squeezed in around fifteen minutes of Japanese into my lunch break, and so my grand total of hours has changed!



September:
6th: Japanese session - 45 minutes
7th: Japanese session - 15 minutes

Total:
10 hours 45 minutes

HM~

Monday, September 6, 2010

Japanese Session 1

Posted by 雯雯 at 12:56 PM 0 comments
I studied a chapter in my book and learnt about sentences containing X が欲しい and verbs with たい and たくない-ending.

I also repeated a fair deal of vocabulary, as well as learning about ten new words.

September:
6th: Japanese session - 45 minutes

Total:
10 hours 30 minutes

Long time no see!

Posted by 雯雯 at 11:27 AM 1 comments
So I've returned to Norway, started school, and everything's nice and dandy. I was in England for most of the summer holidays, which was nice, but almost a bit boring too ;o

I wasn't really planning on continuing this blog after coming back from Hong Kong, but here I am again. This time around, I'm mostly going to fill in my CAS activities and hours for school, for my own benefit, though I might write something else once in a while as well.

This is what I have as of yet:
August (9 hours 45 minutes):
?. Raje trip - 8 hour
23. Creative session - 1 hour 45 minutes

Total:
9 hours 45 minutes

I've got quite a while to go

More later
HM~

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Home

Posted by 雯雯 at 12:34 AM 0 comments
Well, I'm home now. Kind of. In the UK after a quick stop home, and enjoying my summer holiday. I'm going to spend it in a relaxing manner, and I'm looking forward to it!

The last weeks in Hong Kong went very well. My new host family was very nice to me, and I'd like to believe we parted on good terms. My last week was very eventful, with appointments and plans for almost every moment of every day. I managed to pack all my stuff and send it off, and I spent about 24 hours in the airport before leaving (nearly without sleep), seeing off other AFSers and having some fun in the middle of the night. I'm very thankful for everyone who managed to come to the airport to send me off, and for all the people who called or sent me goodbye messages.

It has undoubtedly been a great year... Nothing left to say!

HMM

Friday, June 11, 2010

Slow days? Not really?

Posted by 雯雯 at 5:07 AM 0 comments
I can't decide whether time is passing by quickly or not.
When I busy myself with counting down the days until school ends, or until I'm going home, time passes by slowly. If I manage to do anything else... like watch TV, or do some studying, it's quicker.

It's clear which of the two I should do, but it's so difficult not to remind myself that I'm going home in two weeks and two days.. School ends in a week...

AGH. I have so many things to do!

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

It's not my fault!

Posted by 雯雯 at 4:22 PM 2 comments
Well, a lot of stuff has happened. And luckily, it seems not to be my fault. I'm moving out from my host family tomorrow. We have had... disagreements that we have been unable to solve, and so this is for the best. There's only three weeks left, but hopefully I'll have an awesome three weeks!

In school, I have special lessons with the form 4's who're not taking enough IGCSE's. We end every day at 12.50, which is a nice change of pace from 3.30. My classes are English, Mathematics and Liberal Studies. I'm pretty behind in Math, as always, but I consider myself to be on par with the others when it comes to English and Liberal Studies.

My school year formally ends on the 18th of June, which means I will have nine days of vacation in Hong Kong before returning to Norway. I have plans of revisiting the peak, this time with my camera, going to Ocean Park with my current host sisters and friends, and also see Prince of Persia! Of course, this is all if I have enough money. I'll also buy gifts, souvenirs for myself and some iPhone covers for Mom. They're cheap AND stylish!

-HM

Monday, May 24, 2010

I regret nothing!

Posted by 雯雯 at 4:14 PM 0 comments
... though there are many things I would do differently if faced with this sort of experience again. Instead of beating myself up for the past, however, I'll just drop out some photos. I know my blog is painfully lacking them. Notice how my hair grows!

This one is from one of my first days in Hong Kong, together with my first friend to the right of me, Tracy Vegetable to the far left and my host sister.


Come, come, enjoy a meal at Fatburger! I haven't actually eaten here before, but I think the name is awesome, so I'll pop the picture in here.


This was taken at Disneyland. Notice how my eldest host sister to the left of me is wearing a hat (because she thought her hair was ugly :<)
Do I hear a shadow clone jutsu? (Actually though, this is just the name of the restaurant, no ninja here. Also, this picture is from Macau!)

My host family and I in Macau, waiting to get on the ferry. They ARE pretty awesome..

I took a lot of pictures while in Japan, but this is the only one I'm posting here.


The mandatory picture of me in my school uniform. This is Zoe, btw!

This is what it looks like during lunch.

This is what it looks like during... well I don't know

Monday, May 17, 2010

Huzzah Norway!

Posted by 雯雯 at 1:52 PM 1 comments
Today is the Norwegian National Day! This means that all the Norwegians will be walking along the street (or they'll be standing along it watching the people walking) while eating hot dogs and/or ice cream. Yay Norway!

I, on the other hand, am still in Hong Kong, alive and kicking. I also wasted a perfectly fine holiday (kind of). You see, I got up today at 6.45, prepared for school. I arrive at school, but gosh, there's no one there! I ask the nice teacher who helps me from time to time, and I discover that I have no school until the 24th. Oh joy. Which means that I just wasted three hours of my morning. Not that it matters though, as I wouldn't have gotten up before 9 if left to myself anyway.
If anything, I DID get to line up with the Form 6 classes. I also met two of my classmates, CK and Delphina, on the way back to the MTR, and we had a nice talk while throngs of people passed by. I was the only blonde girl there in a school uniform, so I apparently attracted some stares, whereby I demonstrated to CK and Delphina how people usually react if I stare back. (That is, they look down. I wonder if Chinese people are allergic to eye contact?)

Onwards, I passed the nice day by watching movies and series, playing videogames and piano and eating. Probably what I'll end up doing when summer vacation actually starts >_<

~HMM

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Fifteen odd facts about Hong Kong

Posted by 雯雯 at 3:00 PM 1 comments
Warning, generalized opinions are abundant in this post, some facts may be truer than others :>

Hong Kong....
... where pictures of either beautiful, white-skinned, skimpishly clad women or men with white teeth in sharp suits crossing their hands in front of their chest on busses will make your product more desirable
... where umbrellas are put to good use, no matter whether or not it's sunny or rainy
... where giving your child dubious pill supplements will turn him/her into a genius, allowing him/her to ace all subjects in the future without any sort of effort, thereby giving you and your (beautiful) family a happy life
... where hikes are walking on paved roads in the mountains (don't forget
... where all music is either sappy love songs in either Cantonese, Chinese, or in some cases Korean or Japanese, or popular Western music
... where there is, in existence, two drama series per woman, man and child, with the same basic plot of either period drama (the emperor and all his concubines) or a modern one (she loves him, but she's poor, he loves her too, but he's actually banging her evil twin sister, but then someone gets cancer)
... where public toilets use you!
... where you, no matter how skilled or adept you become, will ALWAYS be worth less than your elders
... where failing an exam is sufficient reason to commit suicide
... where Norway is famous for salmon
... where people wear face masks with a slight fever, but where they eat food from the same plate. true story
... where they eat pig intestines, cow stomachs, pig blood, chicken feet, octopus tentacles and "stinky tofu" (tofu that STINKS (Angel: "It's soooooo stinky, but that's why it's also soooooo tasty!"))
... where the biggest part of cardboard recycling is done by old people trying to make some extra bucks for food
... where flower bouquets are extra expressive if they're bigger than the person receiving them (requiring the poor delivery guys to push them around on a trolley-thing)
... where "fall on the floor" is a bad word

- HMM

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Slow Sundays

Posted by 雯雯 at 9:35 AM 0 comments
I've come to love the slow Sundays that I get to have here in Hong Kong once in a blue moon. They follow the same pattern, I'll get up at a reasonable time (after 8, before 10), and have a slow breakfast while the others are still sleeping. Then I'll finish off my homework before I have all the time in the world. Well, at least, I'll have all the time until two o' clock, when we usually get lunch. After that, my host parents might have business, and I might be able to continue hea'ing* the rest of the day.

They're quite relaxing, so I hope they continue! Now I am going to relax... then finish off my studying and pack my school bags. Aaaaah I love relaxing Sundays :>

-HMM

*hea'ing: in Cantonese, hea is the action of basically just doing nothing. Kind of. x_x

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Dying in the heat

Posted by 雯雯 at 1:45 PM 0 comments
*wipes forehead*
Summer is starting to hit in (at least for a Norwegian such as myself), and the humidity is crazy! To illustrate, I accidentally got my math papers wet last Saturday, and after lying quiet to dry they're still moist. It's crazy shit.

Other than that, I'm going home so soon that AFS have already announced the end-of-stay orientation, and what joy, every country needs to hold a seven-minute presentation in Cantonese about what they've learnt and gained this year! Eirik, the other Norwegian exchange student, and me aren't the most fluent in Cantonese to put it mildly. Yes, I've been learning a lot these past weeks, but there's a long way to go from "You can't puke in the MTR station!" to "I have learned a lot about cultural differences, and about the way Chinese people think and act........."
We've sent a mail to AFS asking them nicely if we can hold said presentation in English, however, I don't think they'll allow us to.

It's not that Cantonese is an incredibly useful language, unless you're going to Hong Kong (which I doubt I will in the near future), though that shouldn't suggest that I don't like learning it. My limited mastery of Cantonese will be one of my random skills, and if anyone asks me I'll very gladly teach them how to say obscene things (it seems those are the things that stick the most, so when people get me tongue-tied I usually retort with a "trip and fall down" or "you wanna squeeze my boobs, right?")

Until next time!

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Time flies ;o

Posted by 雯雯 at 2:27 PM 2 comments
It's been a while since the last time I posted anything here, and it's also rather weird to think that I've already been here for over six months, and that I have less than three months to go. It doesn't exactly feel like I've been here for a shorter period time, or for a longer period or time. It simply feels like I've fallen out of time, and that like I'm living someone else's life all together.

All though my Chinese is not at all as good as it should be, I din't feel like the time I've spent here has been a waste... somehow. I've gotten to see and experience many things that I would've had no chance to do in Norway, and there's something else too, that I can't put my finger on, that makes it feel like it's all been worth it.

This will be disappointing to my mother, but I really feel like I will want to go back to Asia later, at some point, to learn more. I might need some time in Norway first though, to flush the oil and McDonalds out of my system. But I definitely want to return here, after seeing Hong Kong, Taiwan, and parts of China and Japan. I want to learn more languages, and I want to communicate more with the people.

Heh, I'm writing as if I'm leaving now, which is not true. I returned from China yesterday (it was an awesome trip, I really felt like a celebrity too, at the schools we visited. People wanted to take pictures with me, with all of us, in fact. Come come, take pictures with the freaks from the west!), and I will have one agonizing month of tests and large amounts of homework before exams start. And exams are a good thing for me, since I'm not taking them. I'll have lots of time to practice my Cantonese! After that, nothing will happen in school, and I will return home around the 29th of June. All though I love it here in many ways, I am looking forward to going home and just relaxing with my glass with tap water.

STAY SAFE

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Boredom

Posted by 雯雯 at 5:25 AM 1 comments
Well yeah, I'm totally bored. Two days of extra holidays, meaning a four day-weekend means that I have lots of time. Summer is closing in (I know people here say it's spring, but when it's 20+ degrees out, it's summer to me), teachers are piling up the work in anticipation of the coming exams and I'm caught sitting here with no energy.

I had a little bump with my host parents two weeks ago, but I hope that it's been smoothed out now. You never know with these guys though, as they keep everything close to their chest, apparently.

Right now, it's half past twelve in the afternoon. I'm all alone, and it's time to get lunch soon. I'm wondering what to get, as the quick and easy way to go is McDonalds, but I have that too often. I'm probably going Norwegian and getting some bread and maybe juice from the supermarket. I have biology homework, and mathematics homework, but I just don't feel like doing it right now. I just feel like sleeping. Silly summer weather, makes me a sloth.

zzz

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Language Difficulties

Posted by 雯雯 at 9:37 AM 4 comments
There are language difficulties abound here in Hong Kong, mostly on my part (though I had a hard time keeping a straight face every time my teacher was talking about "shit errosion" today).

In the same lesson, the girl sitting next to me and behind me got into a discussion into things that were disgusting to drink ("lan yam"), and apparently, that lan is the same lan as the one used when referring to something that is difficult ("hou lan"). I just remembered that I had learnt how to say disgusting ("hou yeung seui"), and I wanted to know if you could use the yeung in that one to modify how good something is to drink.

I ask, of course, whether or not the yeung from yeung seui can be used like lan, to which they both respond by staring wideyed at me. I pause for a second, and try to repeat it. Over and over. They continue staring, and then I say that I mean disgusting, inspiring laughs. Apparently, I had failed big time at the tones, and I had been repeating amniotic fluid, amniotic fluid, over and over ><

Tones make me sad :<

Monday, March 1, 2010

A prefect's duty

Posted by 雯雯 at 9:44 AM 1 comments
So, every lunch time, we all go out of our classroom, and mostly go somewhere in Causeway Bay to have lunch in a restaurant. The classroom needs to be locked at this time, and it is either the prefect or monitress who lock it everyday. Now my lunch buddy Clarissa is monitress, and this job fell on her today, as it often does (our poor prefect is busy :<).

Anyways, Clarissa was pushing people out the door like the pack of sheep we are, while I was thinking about the oh so tasty ketchup beef rice I was going to order at a Vietnamese restaurant. Clarissa, a girl called Jane, and Joey, who I often walk back and forth from school with (she also helps me with chemistry <3) went there, had our lovely lunch and returned to school earlier than usual. When we got outside our classroom, however, we notice that everybody's peeking inside the windows. They're pretty small, and high up on the wall (who knows why), and from inside the classroom we see poor Delphina... Our classroom is on the fourth floor, and the door cannot be unlocked from the inside (oO), so Clarissa had locked Delphina inside the entire lunch break. That really made my day, hahahahah... Mostly people who passed by had to laugh at the fact that it happened (how did it happen?), and even the teachers had to smile.

There's also "drama" with our chemistry teacher. Our chemistry teacher is one who spreads fear within the girls of our class. One failed test may lead to a lesson of crying. A girl in my class, however, had taken a picture of the teacher's face and pasted it in the middle of a flower, and he found out. Well, he didn't get angry apparently, only disappointed. Ever since, he has been very dry and meek in chemistry lessons, all though I handed in our assignment a little bit late today, and he was perfectly happy. I actually like our chemistry teacher a lot, but my classmates will say that he's nice to me because I'm the exchange student. It's probably true :z

Other than that, PE is extremely fun here. Kind of. I was very sub-par in Norway, yaknow. I never hit the ball hard enough, I was never good at running. But here, it seems my Norwegian genes do me good. I even got an A in PE last term :o
In any case, we danced Cha Cha Cha in PE today, which was fun heheh... It wasn't quite what I was used to, but hey, I decided that even though I'm not really good, I'd do my best and do what I learnt years ago. This was apparently good enough, inspiring the other girls to yell my name and clap, which was totally embarrasing... Chinese version of dodgeball is fun too. We do the Norwegian one all the time.. in Norway, so I'm used to it, and not to be mean, but truth is Chinese girls just don't throw the balls as hard as Norwegian boys do. I guess they don't have enough practice, MORE DODGEBALL IN HONG KONG SCHOOLS! Anyways, it's fun, because it's easier to dodge the balls here than in Norway.

I'm also having a discussion with Jane. I recently picked up Supernatural, and when she hears that I'm watching it (she's a HUGE fan) the question that immediately comes to her mind is of course "Which do you prefer, Dean or Sam?"
I had to answer truthfully, of course, saying that I think Sam is cooler than Dean (shoot me if you will), and so, now whenever we come over the topic, we have a short argument about which is cooler (she even went around the class today showing girls a picture of both of them, making them choose lol)
Aaaaah, Chinese girls' schools..

That's my little school update for now, stay tuned for more!

Monday, February 8, 2010

Hong Kong news

Posted by 雯雯 at 2:21 AM 2 comments
Days pass by slowly here in Hong Kong, and not much has happened since last. Our dancing teams compreted in a competition yesterday, the Western one getting silver and the Oriental becoming champion in their own classes.
I've come down with something I'm not entirely sure what is, allthough my nose is runny, my throat hoarse and it feels like my entire body is made out of jelly.

Today I'd like to blog about a serious topic, all though I am not certain my writing will do it credit... When things go badly here in Hong Kong, it seems the only reasonable way out is jumping down from somewhere tall... You read about the most grotesque variations in the news, and one of my classmates, thoroughly enjoying the expression of shock on my face, told me that a large banging sound like a gun being fired usually means someone has just jumped to their death.

A very horrible, but common variation here is taking your children with you. Only this morning you could read in the paper that a mother had thrown her four-year-old daughter down from the highest floor of a mall, before jumping herself. The reason for this was apparently that her fathered did not wish for their daughter to attend an international school, and so, the mother concluded that since she had no future anyway, the daughter could just die. I don't see anything wrong with the local schools' level of education myself, but hey, I'm not Chinese. The good news (if any) of this story is that the girl survived, being caught in some sort of net, though I daresay she'll be traumatized by the event.

Naye, Hong Kong is a very big place for a Norwegian such as myself, and though I might understand the people and their ways to a certain extent, should I be lucky, I am sure I shall never fully comprehend and agree with them. I surely appreciate many of their customs, but some of their habits are distracting at best, like how everything needs to look perfect (note look). It seems shallow to me, as things are far from perfect, wherever you go. Even so, I've quite enjoyed my months here, and I'm confident that I shall enjoy the last part of my exchange as well...

Hmm

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

scratch-scratch-scratch

Posted by 雯雯 at 3:08 PM 2 comments
Summer is here... kind of. At least my body is filled with mosquito bites. I have no idea where they're coming from, I haven't seen a mosquito for almost four months oO
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH THE ITCH!!!

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

11 days until doomsday...

Posted by 雯雯 at 1:36 PM 3 comments
... at least if you take the word from my classmates. Next Saturday happens to be Parents' Day, meaning that the parents visit school and takes a look at their report cards and talks with the teacher.
If your grades are sub-par, or if you happened to fail, normal Hong Kong children will get big trouble from their parents.
This day is probably the scariest day of the year (yes, scarier than Halloween), and even worse than the day when exams are handed back after being graded.
The pass grade in Hong Kong is 50%, by the way, which really makes you appreciate how wussy the Norwegian fail grade 1 is. We'll be getting to see our grades soon too (hopefully before the parents do, so we can brace ourselves) but I don't have too high hopes. I didn't take the exams after all, and the exams are 70% of your term grade (the other 30% being tests that I mostly didn't take).

HMM

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Hong Kong attitudes in homework

Posted by 雯雯 at 12:33 PM 1 comments
Yet another Saturday is here, so yet again, I sit with homework. Something I find very interesting is how much the homework you get says about attitudes in Hong Kong. Below you will find a list of questions I found in my homework that really says something about what's cool and what's not.

Question 6 : If my father ___ the Asian economic crisis, he ___ so much money on the stock market.

A. had foreseen/did not lost
B. foresaw/have not lost
C. foresaw/ would not lose
D. had foreseen/would not have lost

Question 5 : If I ___ the answer, I ___ in the examination.

A. have known/would not have failed
B. know/have not failed
C. had known/would not have failed
D. had known/have not failed

Question 1 : If I___ turn back time, I ___ more studying.

A. can...will do
B. can ...will be doing
C. could...would do
D. could...will do

Question 5 : I ___ smoking if I ___ him.

A. will stop...was
B. would stop...were
C. will stop...were
D. would stop...am

Question 5 : We ___ the examination room unless the teachers ___ us to do so.

A. shall not leave...allow
B. shall not leave...allowed
C. should not leave...allowed
D. leave...allowed

Question 6 : If we ___ our homework a little sooner, we ___ earlier.

A. started...will finish
B. had started...would have finished
C. started...would have finished
D. started...will have finished

>
...and now, for something completely different:

Question 8 : I ___ the police, if I ___ a rapist.

A. would call/meet
B. called/met
C. would call/met
D. would call/would meet


HMM

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Still alive!

Posted by 雯雯 at 4:09 PM 0 comments
Yeah, I'm still alive and kicking. School has just started, and Christmas vacation was very interesting and fun, but way to short! In any case, I'm back in my school uniform, and had some giggles today, as it was cold today (Hong Kong standards, that is), and you could hear lots of "hou dung a"'s in the hall, to which I would usually reply "m dung a, hou yi a!" like the true butcher of languages I am. If I translate this directly, it looks like Tarzan language (hou dung a - very cold a, m dung a, hou yi a - not cold a, very hot a). Yes. I abuse the a. Just be ready for my new Norwegian, I'll add a's and la's and ga's after everything then too :p

Cantonese is fun, and I've been trying to learn more lately. It feels like it's helping, all though slowly. One of my awesome classmates just moved to one of the buildings next to me, and I've convinced her to help me learn more while we're taking the train to school. As of yet, it's mostly her finding random stuff to talk about, and I'll either answer or go ".... hai me a?" (is what a?). But it's a start!

I also have sports day tomorrow. Hong Kong schools are all about showing school spirit and being a pride of your school. The form 1's also have to cheer, apparently a school tradition, for the house they belong to. There are five houses with random names of famous people in my school, and everybody belongs to one. The form 1's (often referred to as poor form 1's) have to cheer on sports day and various other events as well, and I'm going to watch and giggle tomorrow (form 1A happens to be my art and Putonghua/Mandarin class). The good thing about sports day, from the perspective of a lazy person, sports day is a good day to rest, AND the day after sports day is a holiday, which means more sleep for me!

I should probably put in more culture notes... or whatever. Well, do that later, I'm tired and such.

HMM
 

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