Ni hao. Wo shi Meiguo ren.

The summer of 2010 has ended in a good note, since I had the opportunity to see many of you wonderful 16 degree of separation writers (even if it was just only for a few hours) whom I haven’t seen for more than half a year. As many of you know I have traveled to Nanjing, China to study abroad at NUPT-NYIT  for  the semester.  The campus I am living on is part of a university community (meaning there are many universities with their dorm rooms’ right next to each other in a large area). I stay in a western-styled dorm area for faculty and international students, where there’s more freedom as compared to the Chinese students’ dorms (who have many rules such as curfew at 11 or they get in trouble with their dorm mothers).

The campus and surrounding neighborhood views here are phenomenal, with beautiful gardens and lakes inside and outside buildings that just blow my breath away. It takes me about 20 minutes to walk from my dorm room to the actual building where I take my classes (I don’t start until Thursday). Many people travel by bike here, so I picked up a pretty rad little bike that’s  red with a red lock and a red little basket.

For the next three weeks, I will be working at a company called Levitron from Monday to Wednesday. I had an interview and a tour of the company on Monday  and it wasn’t too bad. Levitron is an engineering company, who sells many electronics to Home Depot. A few classmates and I will be there to help teach some workers to speak and communicate in English. We will have to be living at Levitrons factory dorms since it’s about a 2 hour travel one way between university campus and the company.  Should be an interesting experience since the dorms are Chinese style where each room has two bunk beds, and the showers, sinks and the toilet (which is a hole in the floor) are both outside shared with other rooms.

I currently have an interview curfew, so I can’t write too much this time around. I’ll try to post pictures and more at least once every two weeks if not more.

Miss you guys.

[I’ll be updating on 16 degrees a lot of more since I can’t access Facebook here in China yet.]

Welcome Home

Just like to welcome basically everyone home to New York City. It’s so great that everyone is back.

Also like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! whether it’s getting fatten up with a real turkey or soy sauce chicken.

Can’t wait to see everyone again.

How is this October?

heys everyone.
So this week was awesome cause people with fall break or Columbus day off all came home. I got to see Ke on Monday and for some reason i expected to see this really grown up, mature faced guy but Ke is still the nice,cute baby faced Ke we know. It was so great to hang out at Columbus again til we got kicked out of the park for closing. I also got to see Debbie and Allison on Saturday. It was a nice little shopping trip at Soho. But, what i couldn’t understand was why it was so freaking packed. I mean i know it was a weekend but for some reason it was extremely packed. Couldn’t walk down the street. It was so nice to see people again.

Now, the weather. WHAT IS UP WITH THIS WEATHER? Okay i know weather in New York City isn’t as bad as Boston or Connecticut where it’s snowing like CRAZY, but it’s freezing. It’s only October. Why is it only 40 degrees so early in the year? The trees haven’t changed color yet, the leaves haven’t all fallen off yet it’s freezing cold, snow at some places, lots and lots and lots of annoying rain. Florida weather is a little off right now too. I mean it’s not snowing but temperatures are getting under 60. Global warming is killing us and I don’t like it at all. We really got to do something about global warming but i swear in a few years we’re going to be having snow in the summer or bright, sunny, warm beach days in the winter. For everyone who’s dorming and stuck in this cold ass weather I really hope you guys have enough sweaters, hoodies, scarfs, jackets, gloves. etc to keep warm. I think all of you guys should get a:

I mean come on i think it looks pretty gangsta.

Last off. I would just like to say.
GO YANKEES!!!! ALL THE WAY NOW!!!!!
ps. I can’t believe I missed yesterday’s game. I heard it was freaking awesome. Out of all the games to miss, I had to miss yesterday’s.

Miss you guys so much, can’t wait to see you guys. So until next time.

It goes on and on and on and on

so this song has been stuck in my head for the pass two weeks. and since it’s awesome i’ll like to share it with everyone

So everyone knows i go to NYIT, however, nobody knows where it’s at or what the damn school looks like. My school is at Columbus Circle and it looks like a typical business like building with blue flags waving NYIT.

Columbus Circle. don't you miss it?

NYIT main building

Today was officially my 9th day in school. Though it feels like I’ve been in school for months minus knowing everyone’s name. It seems like everyone, like in high school, knows me for my height. Not everyone remembers my name but everyone remembers my height. I guess I’ll never grow out of it. My classes mainly end around 5 give or take half an hour every day. Most my classes are alright. However, there is Chemistry. My teacher is this little old lady (and i mean old, like 70′s old) with a deep accent. This teachers is crazy. She made us all get textbooks for the second day of class but she didn’t tell us which textbook. So everyone goes to our school bookstore to buy a Chem textbook (there’s like 3 different Chemistry textbooks). The next time we see her we find out she changed the textbook, bought an edition that can’t be found anywhere, and starts working from it. We told her that everyone got a different textbook and she’s like “it’s okay, it’s okay we’re here to study chemistry”. She starts naming pages from her textbook, which nobody has and expects everyone to have the same page. She also used a permanent purple marker on the white board. She fills the whole board up in purple ink and tries for a good 5 minutes to erase it to add more random notes. I feel so bad for the person who had to wash that board. So Chemistry is going to be so bad this year. Thank god i have you Chem Majors to help me!!
One of my favorite things about my classes at NYIT this year is that most my rooms have the nicest views. All my rooms are looking at Central Park and/or Columbus Circle which is so pretty. My Precalculus seat has the nicest view out of all my classes.

nice view huh?!?

There’s not much parties here since I do school in the city. Everyone just picks a club, spreads the news and people just go. Not much Chinese people mostly Indians and Koreans (penny there are a few that i see in the elevator and i’m like he’s definitely white enough for you) some white at NYIT.

That’s it for now. I missed alot of tv this week so i gotta start catching up. Glee, Warehouse 13, Gossip Girl. Until next time then.

Cause food in NYC is better

Hey girls/guys. So from the post I know that you guys miss home food. new york food. fattening food. just good old food. So just to rub it in a little.

I had a cooking day at my house on Sunday. Debbie, Eric, Allison, Jeffrey, Jenny and I came together and decided to make Italian food. The food came out so delicious. We made baked ziti and baked potatoes. The baked ziti with two different cheeses and lots of beef was my favorite. It came out perfect; no burnt ziti noodles and cheese melted just enough so it wasn’t toast. It was especially mouth-watering with the Italian bread we brought. The baked potatoes came out okay. We put butter and cheese with the potatoes to bake but in the end it just tasted like plain potatoes. I have  no clue why the cheese didn’t melt well with the potatoes.

So that’s what’s happening in New York City right now. If 6 people came together to cook this awesome meal imagine what our Thankgiving meal will be like when everyone is back and we have all the chefs come together to cook.

Miss you guys so much, can’t wait to see you guys.