Another day another blog. Well, what can I say. Not much, woke up early in the morning to walk with Belle to her part-time work (the evil rules says she must work part-time at campus if she wants to live at campus, which means she has to work 7.15 every morning). After that I went to the language center where I didn't have classes until 9.00. Then I went and ate, did a little surfing and after that I visited a friend and asked him to help me when I go an renew my visa. After that I went home and called Belle.
She told me she'd finish work (another part-time job) and then come by. Against my better judgement I did lie down a little and and I was almost asleep when the phone rang again and she told me she had arrived.

Then we discussed a little about what would happen during the summer vacation. I'm planning on staying here to study, and she wants to stay too, but her parents wouldn't be very happy if they heard she's staying at my place. It's pretty much out of the question. So she's gonna go home. Or that's how it looks right now. I should be worrying too, and I guess at first I was, but then I remembered what I learned, namely don't worry about the future. I want to elaborate, so here's my sermon for today:

Things might look bad for the future, or they might be good, but no matter what we have no way of knowing how it will really turn out. If things are bad now, maybe it will turn out that it's really an excellent opportunity for something we didn't know about. Or maybe the bad things go away and we get what we want anyway. Maybe the bad times prepares for something great further on in the future we can't yet really imagine? We don't know.
And on the flip side of the coin: things might look great now, but in the end what we think we want might not be what we really need, and the "good future" turns out to really be horrible future. Again, we cannot say for sure, things happen as they do.
So, the best thing is simply to accept the day as it is. Tomorrow will come anyway, no matter what we do. And no matter how carefully we plan our lives, we can never truly know the outcome. Only if we embrace everything without reserve can we know true happiness rather than glimpses of false desire fulfilled.

Take care out there in the wilderness.

Oh, what's this!? No update yesterday? Well hope you survived anyway. Not much to say about yesterday except for practice was long and I felt I practiced a lot. And still my knees don't hurt. Good news. Today I had a big test but with a little luck it turned out fine. I also got annoyed at the Japanese woman again, not for the usual thing (her atrocious pronounciation which haven't gotten the least bit better since I last complained about it) but for the fact that I know she's speeding the pace along now that we finished with the book and are starting to read simple news articles.
At the current pace I'm struggling to keep up, but it works. The korean guy on the other hand, he's not even given a chance. At least I can ask when there are words I don't understand. Now to get this in perspective he scores like 75 on tests the Japanese woman and I do 96-100 on. I'm seriously suspecting that the lowest possible score on these tests are around 50. He's struggling hard.

So now we have articles with a lot of new words and he can't even ask the teacher because he doesn't understand english. The Japanese woman of course is very happy because she virtually understands everything (since they use the same characters in Japan often with very similar meaning if not identically the same), and on top of that we hardly need to speak anything so she doesn't need to feel the embarrassment of being corrected by the teacher (which doesn't happen nearly as often as it should anyway).

And he can't even tell the teacher that he's having trouble. :-/ So I told the teacher after class and maybe she'll try to covey the meaning of the words in other ways (like drawing on the white board or acting it out, like she did in the beginning, that should help him a little). The fact that the Japanese woman doesn't care the least about others having trouble with the current pace is really ticking me off though.

Well, I shouldn't let that distract me so now that I vented my anger I'm gonna forget about it.

Today Belle said she'd help me move the last of my things after lunch, so I'm gonna go home soon and wait for her. Well, that's pretty much it for now. Bye bye for now.

Mmm.. nothing much to say. Actually I went to bed rather early after practice ended a little after 10 o'clock. My knees are feeling better and better which is good. I'm taking a lot of care not to practice too low stances, so it's not so surprising maybe.
Anyway, it's good news. School rages on at full pace. I have to read two texts and I have a test. Both for tomorrow. Ugh. Well, I don't really have all that much to tell you. My friend Kirti was talking about visiting Taiwan in September or so, and that sounds cool. If anyone else wants to visit you're welcome too!

The plan for the day is eating lunch (with Belle?), studying, and then after 9 in the evening practice kf with Belle. The weather here is a little too warm for comfort. Wish it could start raining again :)