Since a little more than a week I have my student ID card! I get discount with this card almost everywhere, food on campus is very cheap, I have access to printing centres, the library and I even can drive Metro with it or pay in certain stores, if I want to. Very convenient.
Finding
suitable courses conducted in English was a difficult and exhausting challenge,
because for some courses it is not possible to register online. You have to go
to the first lecture and ask for a code. In some courses we were even asked to
fill out an application form to get admission for the course. For the reason
you cannot be sure which courses you will be allowed to take the first week is
basically running from course to course trying to get as many admissions as
possible to have a variety to choose from and enough credits in the end.
I was lucky
and now I am very happy with my schedule. I chose one Chinese Course above my assigned
level – I take the challenge (at least for me it is, because I forgot a lot)
and do Elementary II. Today I had my second class and it is fast and tough.
Especially writing and reading traditional characters is hard for me, but my
goal was to get better in Chinese so I gonna work hard.
This
Weekend we had a typhoon. Everybody was talking about it, and some people were
very scared before, eventually it was just raining. And since this weekend it
was raining the whole week.
I already
start missing some things from Germany: getting coffee at home whenever I want,
German beer (I never imagined that would happen!) and of course my loved ones
back at home!! What I definitely gonna miss back at home are: the Taiwanese people,
the mature mango with its slight lemon flavour, and milktea.
Stay
positive,
Yihua.
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