Thursday, July 27, 2006

sweefundunger. oyspoo. day.
well i haven't updated in forever, so i'll just go chronologically and tell you guys what's happened...

basically we went to dan shui. one time it was w/ my family, the other was with the chinese summer school/camp thing. it was pretty fun....but i didn't really buy much. i won some tiny piggy-banks by throwing rings over them. ^_^ they're so cute. i got a little ducky one and a little panda one. i was gonna buy a HUGE ducky plushie (same ducky as the ducky i won), and it was REALLY cute, but it had an ugly "hat" and i don't know how i'm gonna stuff that into my luggage when i get back to the u.s. anyways. i'm still really sad that i didn't buy it though. :( i want that ducky.

we were actually supposed to go to um...somewhere to celebrate tong wan jie, and we were gonna do stuff w/ water or something...but because of the typhoon, we couldn't...now we're gonna do it next week.

my friend from spain likes someone. a lot. but she's had a bf before and when they broke up she was REALLY REALLY REALLY sad, so she's really scared to go into that kind of relationship again and she doesn't WANT to like him. but she likes him A LOT (more than she liked her ex-bf) and so we (me and our roomie) convinced her to tell him. it's tomorrow. right after the karaoke contest. which we are gonna (and there's NO exaggeration here) bomb. the girls are at least KINDA enthusiastic about it, but the guys...they're the ones who are supposed to act out the lyrics, but when they're supposed to come up, they just sit there. or sleep. and then we yell at them to come up, but they just sit there. and i'm the class president, so i yell at them louder than everyone else...heh....don't get me mad. i was just like, "GET ONSTAGE!" and then he was like, "ban zhang (class president)!" and then he flashed me (which this guy does to me everyday and i'm SO sick of it). and then i was like, "GET UP NOW!!!!" and he flashed me AGAIN. and then i literally SCREAMED, "NI XIAN ZAI GEI WUO SHANG TAI!!!!!!!!!" (which is like...a really angry way of saying, "GET ON THE STAGE NOWNOWNOWNOWNOWNOW!!!") and then he came on for a bit and then walked right back off. ass hole...

but the more important thing is...

kiki's doing the same summer school/program that i am, but in a different place. and she's REALLY homesick. kiki's homesickness is spinning out of porportion. it's like the ONE THING that's keeping her from enjoying it. and i don't even know how to BEGIN to describe how bad it is. the longest she's been away from her parents is THREE DAYS. and now she's gonna have to suffer through SIX WEEKS. it's too sudden. i think she needs a more gradual process to independence. i mean...it's gotten so bad that she's crying every day and every night and starting to think of quitting. that's what her mom wants her to do. her dad just wants her to put up with the homesickness. he was comparing her to me and how i can handle it but she can't. but really...i'm a totally different person than she is. i grew up with a neglectful father, a mother always at work, and the nannies that we've had have never really gotten REAL close....so basically it was just my brother and me. and me being the elder, i learned to become independent easier and faster. that's why i'm doing better than kiki is.....at least i think that's why..

what's the cure for homesickness besides going home? i can't stop thinking about this and worrying about this and how the hell am i gonna help her?

she WANTS to learn more chinese. REALLY REALLY bad. but that means that she's gonna have to put up with the camp and suffer the homesickness. if she quits, she'll at least be able to stay with her uncle and can spend an extra week with me (my camp ends a week earlier than hers, but i'm staying for another week and a half here in taiwan after my camp's done). which should she choose?

and she can't switch over to where i am right now. and she already calls her family every day.

i need help too.

i need help to help her.

quote of the day
"If you can't return a favor, pass it on." -Louise Brown
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