Off to see family before the big trip to China
Good Morning. I'm waiting inside Sky Harbor Airport in lovely Phoenix, Arizona, waiting for my flight to depart. I've heard that I'm supposed to arrive 2 hours early for my flight, but I feel like 1 hour is early enough. Better safe then sorry I suppose.
I'm off to beautiful West Lafayette, Indiana to visit family for a week. Just yesterday, I finished possibly my last semester on the ASU campus. I say possibly, because I might someday go back as a graduate student.
This last semester was a least the busiest I think I've ever experinced at school. 18 credit hours of upper division Asian Studies courses and an Internet course. If it wasn't for the Internet course and learning more about HTML, I wouldn't have built this nice website. In addition to coursework I was in the Japanese Speech Contest (taking second in the highest division) and I spent time training for the Intercolliegent Racquetball tournament. Any time left over to socialize was not easy to find.
I took an extra course this semester so I could meet all the requirements needed before going to China and getting a major. It felt like, its one thing to get a major in Japanese, but it would be special to get a major in both Japanese and Chinese. It would make my college experience worth while and hopefully make me more valuable to a future employer, even if I start my own business and I am the employer.
Now its time to put those new skills to use in China. I look forward to going to China and TWN and really improving my listening and speaking skills. To complete the major, I must take classical Chinese in China rather than simply Chinese conversation, but to completing the major quickly is a key reason for the trip.
I'm off to beautiful West Lafayette, Indiana to visit family for a week. Just yesterday, I finished possibly my last semester on the ASU campus. I say possibly, because I might someday go back as a graduate student.
This last semester was a least the busiest I think I've ever experinced at school. 18 credit hours of upper division Asian Studies courses and an Internet course. If it wasn't for the Internet course and learning more about HTML, I wouldn't have built this nice website. In addition to coursework I was in the Japanese Speech Contest (taking second in the highest division) and I spent time training for the Intercolliegent Racquetball tournament. Any time left over to socialize was not easy to find.
I took an extra course this semester so I could meet all the requirements needed before going to China and getting a major. It felt like, its one thing to get a major in Japanese, but it would be special to get a major in both Japanese and Chinese. It would make my college experience worth while and hopefully make me more valuable to a future employer, even if I start my own business and I am the employer.
Now its time to put those new skills to use in China. I look forward to going to China and TWN and really improving my listening and speaking skills. To complete the major, I must take classical Chinese in China rather than simply Chinese conversation, but to completing the major quickly is a key reason for the trip.
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