Thursday, January 18, 2007  3:10 AM
Under bright lights, trams away
Two hours and my eyes are wild from staring at too much light but some images are finally up on Flickr, link on right, click on the Hong Kong set.
School has started but I can't quite seem to get into the monotonous drum of things, perhaps because I'm in a foreign country and all I'm looking forward to every day is that trip down to Tsim Sha Tsui or the expectation of eating desserts on late nights out. The teacher thinks we're overqualified for Basic Cantonese, although I'm insistent on taking it because I want to finally get the tonal sounds right. And with a few free credits and the headache of looking for another elective that fits into my timetable, I'll probably just settle for his repeated musings of "you shouldn't be in this class". English and the World in Film proved to be a snippet of some distant memory back in primary school where we watched movies and talked about it in class. I expected heavy analytical studies or heated debates from the movies, but the syllabus turned out to be along the lines of listening comprehension from various scenes in the movies, vocabulary and spelling. The British-accented Chinese lecturer also proclaimed the lead actress in Legally Blonde to be Reese Silverspoon. And we had to define "attorney" and "pediatrician". The movies sound interesting though, with Catch Me If You Can, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, The Butterfly Effect and Notting Hill being some of the movies on the list. I don't quite foresee myself listening to her much - Jings and I played hangman and explored tongue twisters and palindromes all through the three hours today, maybe we will come up with our own syllabus and activities for that course. I got my literature module as well, I can't wait to see what it'll be like, with lit being my favourite subject all through secondary school and junior college. I can remember lines from Wuthering Heights but not math formulas, although the latter proves more useful. It sounds promising however, because I see Confessions of a Shopaholic on the reading list for the group presentation. The book was written just for me - I've read it three times over, I have many thoughts on it, now I just have to find girl group members whom I can envision myself down Causeway Bay with.
I promise a later update on events out of school, which will take up comparatively more paragraphs than this short snippet about school. It shows the emphasis I'm placing on school this semester, although I see it as a semester of many firsts - taking classes alone, and being a foreign exchange student no less, the semester with just one exam, the least hours a week, and probably the semester where I'm going to skip the most lectures and tutorials. I'm a good student back home, but it's hard to stick to that same routine when Kate Spade's having a sale just fifteen minutes away.
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