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This morning I finished the last exam. Now I should wait for the upcoming volunteer training week. This time the track and field event is from May 22~25, after that I will have about one month’s holiday. I hope this time the Bird Nest could provide a better working environment! Rencently Herzog and Demeuron came to China, I don’t know what do they think about their masterpiece, which has experienced great changes.

Tonight our departement will hold a party for the senior students who are ready to graduate. This is very important because they are the first group students graduate from our English departement. The 04′ grade only has 64 students, now they all accomplish the study and step towards their future!

I don’t know what I am doing 2 years later. How confused I am! The one-month holiday is a very precious time for me to make my mind clear and make preparation. I think the first is to make fully preparation for the GRE and TOEFL tests, otherwise there will no such a good time waiting for me.

The road is quite long, I wish I won’t leave regrets.

Do you know what ’s this?  “I’m Jackfruit!” In Chinese we call it “Bo Luo Mi”(pineapple honey)

Yesterday Winnie’s classmate asked her to arrange a place to sleep for his mother, when his mother came, she gave us a bag of  Fresh Jackfruit!! They live in GuangDong province so this fruit is very common for them. But in Beijing we seldom see them. Even though there are some of them in the supermarkets, they are usually not fresh and extremely expensive. I sometimes buy a bag of “jackfruit chips” which are dried jackfruits produced in Vietnam.

I searched Wikipedia, it says:

“The jackfruit is something of an acquired taste, but it is very popular in many parts of the world. An unopened ripe fruit can have an unpleasant smell, like rotting onions. The light brown to black seeds with white innards are about the 2-3 inches long. People often oil their hands with coconut oil, or paraffin before preparing jackfruit, as the rest of the fruit is a loose white mass that bleeds a milky, sticky sap often used as glue.”

Right, the fruit really has a special smell, girls in our dorm don’t like it though 3 of them come from places where jackfruit is grown. But I think its smell is much better than durian. For me jackfruit it is soooooooooo sweet! So can you guess what’s hapening? The whole bag of fruits belongs to me~~~~

Now I must controll myself, for the fruit contains very high calories!!

It always rains this week. This morning when I waked up, the it has been raining. So this year heat does not come very early like in the past years. Many people don’t like rain because the weather makes them feel depressed. However, it is my favourite weather. I also like cloudy days. The air is cool and fresh. I like cold more than hot, and I hate I am easily to sweat in summer.

Rain is elegant. It makes my head clear and provide me a cozy environment so that I can do what I want with a good mood. Whenever it rains, I have a foreboding that I can succeed in that day’s work. I’m very happy that today is a cool day, maybe I can recite all the reviewing materials!!!

Rainy day is “the day in paradise”!! Just now an old children’s song came into my mind, I recited many many times when I was young:

Rain , Rain go away,

Come again another day,

Little Johnny wants to play.

Rain on the green grass and rain on the tree,

rain on the housetops but not on me! 

Ay…I really hope I am still a young girl…

Yesterday is the busiest day, but after the busiest, the relief comes. In the morning I had exam of writting class. We were required to write 2 essays of 250 words each in one hour and a half. To be honest, it was not very easy, for time was limited while the essays must be not too bad. I always tend to write more than required. Of course this time again I write a little more, especially on the first essay, so I felt rather intense when I wrote the second one.

When the exam was over, Maggie sent back our homework essays, including the very formal arguement essay on which I spent the most time and energy. Well, hard work deserved good end. The grade was fairly satisfying. It’s the first time for me to write such thick papers!

And, Thank you Maggie! Your class has taught me a lot of things.

Unfortunately, afternoon’s extensive reading exam was a little bleak. I have kept hundreds of vocabulary in heart but I didn’t meet most of them in the vocabulary quesions. So I didn’t answer well on that setion. But when exam finished, any small discontentment meant nothing. What can I complait about?

Next Tuesday we will have only one exam, which is the last one. Thanks God, now I can take a rest and don’t have to worry about chocolates for 3 days !

Today I must jog more. Run! Run for the chocolate!

This week we have 5 exams, but that’s not the most terrifying. The schedule did anything but good for us: 2 exams a day!!! Those exams need us to remember many things in heart, so these week is the “memory week”~:)

Though the urgent time can make people active, there’s still anxiety. For me, it is not the exam bothers me, but the chocolate!

Why? —-I have a habbit that before an exam I believe eating something sweet would help me with the test. It seems that sweet food is helpful to the brain functioning. When I am thinking, I need a great deal of energy to consume, and suguar is the most capable supplier. So I always take something sweet to the classroom, usually a bar or some pieces of chocolate, for it contains abundant calories.

Ok, you can say my theory is superstition, but I have get used to “chocolate before exam”, which is like a rite that can give me confidence. If I forget it for one time, I will have the feeling of not being protected.

Girls greatest enemy is chocolate, this is the same to me. But exam does not come all the time, so eat a little bit of chocolate 2 times a year is acceptable. But this time—-in such a dense exam week, I have to eat many chocolates in one day so I’m afraid that I would spend a month to use up those calories…

Now there have been small acnes on my chin, I doubt it is due to the chocolates. Those black evils push me in a dilemma, but seeing the hundreds of vocabulary waiting me to keep in heart, I’d better choose the chocolate…

Next time I really hope that our final exams would not be arranged in such a pressing time, otherwise I would be driven crazy! >o<

We all know and look forward to the time after May 16th.—-since then we won’t have any classes, in another words, we’ll have a extra holiday! Yeah~~I don’t know if foreign teachers in our department are planning to go back home to enjoy it, we students surely cannot let the chance slide away!

however, nothing is perfect. After I check the time carefully I found it is not easy to arrange some good plan for that period of time. Usually I attend a course in Beijing New Oriental School, but there’s not any course fit the time between June and July.(For me the holiday starts in June because by the end of May I have to do volunteer work, and another volunteering in the end of July.) 

Then how about travel? I saw a summer camp programme several days ago which contains summer camps to Britain, U.S., Japan, HongKong, Singapore and some other places. I have interest but at the same time I have to take the “lack of freedom” into account. How about travel as a backpacker? The time is also not porper for the places I want to go—-I’ve dreamed about Nepal for long time but in June and July it is in rainy season, which makes the journey impractical. As to the places in China…one month seems a bit long for a domestic trip, and to be honest, I don’t want to travel along this time. A lonely trip is full of challenges but an interesting journey with some good friends is equally charming. The problem is that almost all of my friends’ timetables have no  vacancies for that time…

The ticklish holiday bring me many bubbles, but they  break easily. I really want to make full use of the holiday but an excellent idea has not come to my mind yet. Maybe …maybe I should wait a little longer and see how everything is going. Maybe it is just a matter of time and a plan would jump out happily in front of me at a correct time.

our listening teacher Kat gave us an assignment: find out whether “Chinese pyramids” exist. The Chinese pyramids are located in ShanXi province, near the city Xi’an. As known to all the great emperor Qin Shi Huang built the tremendous underground kingkom in which thousands of terra cotta warriors stand quitely for many centuries. Those “pyramids” have the very similar shape with those of Egypt, and are believed to be the tomb of emperors of Han Dynasty. However, what’s strange most is a “white pyramid” discovered by an American aviator during ww2. A German author went to ShanXi province but he didn’t find the rumorous white pyramid. He only took some pictures of the already known “pyramids”—-the tombs.

To me, the mysteries remained to be solved in the world are enormous and they may keep confusing people for many many years, at least in my generation I can’t wait for the answers…the UFOs, aliens, stars, the origin of the universe……those have been interested me since I first knew them. What human beings know about themselves are so little.  So I believe everything have reasons to appear, including the horrible ghost. Though many people don’t understand, I have my own standpoint that everything have some kind of relations, for example in the form of energy, thus there’s theory that  movement of planets  have strong influence on humans’ activities. If I have enough money and time and an ideal life, I would retire early and have some courses on astrology in London, for London has a very complete and old academic astrology system.

well…I can hardly have a busy life now because last week I was tired to death! First, the volunteer work for “Good Luck Beijing” race walking and marathon event. Though I worked in the famous “Bird Nest”, there’s not so much to envy…because the stadium hasn’t been completed yet, the roads sorrounding it are still in a mass and have no difference with other construction places. Everyday we have to pass through dry air and dirty dust. What’s more, my work is to help the judges to carry athletes who give up the match or offend rules to the post-event control centre, so I have to either walk between the road where the match was going and the control centre or stand uprightly, which made my waist ache heavily. Everyday my legs got swollen because the long time of stand and walk.

AND—-at the same time, just as I’ve mentioned in the last diary, I had to prepare for the exam of tennis referee…I was very nervous but the fact was that the exam only took me 15min. That day I was ran down completly.

That’s not the end! Don’t forget the most threatening—-TEM4! After taking 4-hour sleep for many days I still had to brace up. But what can I do? I didn’t have time to prepare like my friends in that very urgent week and one night cannot make any difference. So there was only one way to help—-go to bed early—-that’s the only thing I did without any complaint during the whole week! 

The good news is that now they are all over: TEM4 was not so difficult, and volunteering was rather an unforgetable experience. To some degree, the ending is satisfying.

However, I still can’t relax, for this week~~~we’ll have final exams!!! OK, after all those horrible things, an exam is not worth fearing, right?

Being a student in BSU, it must be a pity if I don’t make full use of the resources of our university!! There are all kinds of training cources related to sports, esp. all kinds of referees but I usually ignored them in the past 2 years.  People usually pay less attention to things that are easy to get. That’s a sad fact.

So…after I saw the note about referee course, I decided to grasp the chance, this time I am determined. Besides, Winnie also agreed to have the course by my instigation. ^_^

The course is for tennis referee of 3rd degree. Though I’m not so clear about the rules, I still love this sport. In 2006 I got a VIP ticket for China Open, which was my first time to have a close touch with tennis.

For students in BSU, such courses, which are quite difficult in other schools, are pretty easy and informal—-I mean, we just have 1 class altogether! And the next class will be the exam. If you pass it, then a certification flies directly to you, “not needing the slightest effort”, as the Chinese saying.

Therefore, how can I let the good chance slide away?? Though I was a little doubtful about the number of the lesson, I was still excited last night. The teacher is a middle-aged man who has written a number of books on tennis. It seems that he is a quite renowned professor and umpire. He didn’t teach us according to the book pages by pages or rules by rules. He just showed us questions on referee work and in this way he introduced the concept of tennis rule for us. I like his humorous way of speaking and good temper. He didn’t make the rules dull and tiresome. Through his introduction I got to know that tennis is a sport that pays much attention on “gentleman” spirit. One point of great significance in this sport is that if either of plays or umpires make mistakes, the solution is “Let bygones be bygones”. That sounded strange to me at first, but I think I can understand it soon with the deeper and deeper touch with tennis. This spirit is very important. May be it is a reflection of Britain.

The three-hour class finished soon, I still didn’t make the rules clear, but I really got something from the kind teacher. Every sport has its distinctive spirits and belief in it. Sports are also a kind of culture. Different kind of sports means various cultures, which have their respective history and characteristics. Knowing them is like leaning the life of people from different countries. Really really interesting.

well….let’s come back to the reality…

the next step is ….find ways to ensure that I can pass the exam next week!!!!!

after a busy, tired winter vacation(it seems that I am always occupied by something during the precious holiday…is it my inevitable fate??), I almost forget this blog and some other things I have used to last term. So in the first week after I returned BSU, I was a little at loss. I forgot I should go to library;I forgot I should go jogging everyday; I even forgot the temperature in Beijing, for I had spent nearly one month in tropical area; and also, I forgot this blog, on which has just few poor writtings. Ay…it seems I come from another planet, watching the lifestyle on earth confusingly.
well, anyway, a little maladjustment is temporary. I found my grey notebook this week, which I used to make plans for everyweek. Now I start to use it again. And I found that, even though I love the time wandering around and caring about nothing, I still belong to the intensive life.
Whenever I press on according to the schedules I made and accomplish them one by one, I have the perfect feeling. Substantial and meaningful life is absolute principal for me. although I often feel tired after a day’s work, I don’t think I lose anything and I’m pressed by other tasks. on the contrary, if I have a luxurious day eating and lying on bed, I don’t feel really happy.
of course, rest is necessary but I really hate purposeless time. In contrast, I prefer a minute with high density rather than idling 10 years.
I love enjoy life, but such enjoyment should not based on wasting time, that’s my understanding.
ok, today’s topic is a little bit serious…but I’m sure it doesn’t come all the time..^_^

let’s keep on working~