Anarchocyclist

This week SFU had a referendum to decide membership in the corrupt Canadian Federation of Students, and i just heard that it was a success. They needed a minimum of 5% of all students to vote, and ended up getting around 20%, plus they needed a simple majority of voters and they got 67%. [...]

I had another calligraphy class yesterday, and learned a few more tid-bits. The class was a little sparse on instructional time because most of the people in the class are beginners at chinese and the instructor only speaks chinese. However, i was able to glean a few pieces of information from the instructor [...]

I’m feeling pretty down about my classes this week. Last week was the nationwide holiday, and i felt like i made some progress. Instead of going out travelling to touristy destinations with my classmates, i decided to hit the books. Spending several hours per day with my nose to the grindstone, i [...]

Our schedule still seems pretty cramped, but i love the opportunity. Today we fulfilled our part of the free-Go-lessons bargain by trying to teach our instructor some english. She already has a half-decent knowledge of english, but with low vocab. I think she might be about the same level of english as [...]

Today was definitely the best day of the trip so far. Jon and i decided to go out to take a look at a Weiqi (aka Go, a strategy board game that we are obsessed with) school that we heard was down the street. Previously, we’d been searching high and low for a [...]

Lately it feels like i have nothing to write about since i’m just doing the same thing day in and day out. This week feels a bit transitional, though. Thursday i finally got my passport; the canadian passport offices are swamped because we now need to have a passport in order to enter [...]

2 months remaining until we jet off to Hangzhou (杭州). We just started our third chinese class, chin291. we’ve had 3 sessions of it already, with a total of 12 in the course, so 2 more weeks and then we’re done. The final course ends april 16th and then we go [...]

今天早上我在工作的电脑前正在坐。
最近我喝了咖啡很多说不定因为我比较忙，睡觉有稍微少一点儿。
我在学习汉语很多。 我想增多语汇所以我在看几书。
我应该去图书馆找小孩儿的书所以学习多一点儿。
如果我找到那些，希望我可以阅读的容易。
那些太难的时候我把全部时间都用词典。
昨天我查中国的鸟的观察，它是我的爱好。
我查出很少中国人观察鸟。
我希望我去中国的时候我可以找到个写真鸟的书。
明天我要写个中文的考试。
它是我们的中文课的最后考试，星期二我们上新课。
Ride hard, ride free

I’m still super busy with class. haven’t had much time for anything except homework and studying, although i did manage to ride my bike up the mountain yesterday for the first time in 3 months. On thursday we attended a meeting about our upcoming flight to china in may, and we heard from [...]

I’m really busy with school lately. Suddenly it feels like i’m falling behind in class, but maybe it’s because i’m comparing myself to this one guy who already speaks cantonese and seems to be catching on to mandarin really damn fast. I really need to work on speaking and listening, i think. [...]