School's in

Gosh things have been moving so fast over the past week, and suddenly classes are finally starting - so this is it - pass or fail time hehe =p

But seriously, i'm pretty much still motivated to put in at least a respectable amount of effort into this sem, especially since i'm doing rather high-level stuff for my history courses (apparently "module" is not a word very familiar to people over here, along with "toilet", "queue" and "lift" - the American translations are "washroom", "line" and "elevator" respectively) and if i don't put in effort i may seriously catch no ball (translation: "have no clue whatsoever") with regards to the course.

I initially had problems with my courses cos due to some miscommunication our modules (oops!) were registered wrongly and so we've been in the process of trying to fix things... Thankfully, i'm left with only one more course to add. My current schedule without that course added is free on Tuesdays and Thursdays, though that means a really busy Monday and Wednesday especially (thankfully Friday's still relatively ok - free after two pm - if there's a chance to sneak off to travel over the weekend that would be great...)

I'd like to think that i've gradually become more accustomed to life over here - i now automatically look left first, rather than right, before crossing the road and therefore run less of a risk of being the front page news on the following day's Daily Tar Heel; and i no longer point excitedly and go "Hey look - squirrel!" like the typical urban Singaporean (whatever the opposite of suaku is, that's the word to use) would do whenever i see one, since i see about three a day now...

Hooray for God's provision: i was wondering what to do for dinner cos i didn't buy the meal plan here cos it is excrutiatingly expensive - then at just the right moment two Campus Crusade guys knocked on my door and offered me some pizza - that was pretty neat...

Yup this post is uncharacteristically short for me - but oh well, must sleep early for school =)

nitey.