Snowing…

It snowed the day before yesterday, even a heavy one. Yesterday some places of the road was covered with ice so we had to cycle to school carefully. How strange the weather is! It’s only in October now! Now the time is not DST, just changed into GMT. But the weather is changing a lot only after two days of this. It seems that there’s no autumn here. Last week we bathed in the warmth of the sun. But now we must wear hat and gloves when we go outside. How incredible it is!

We had our first presentation in TIC this Monday. Actually I wanted to take part in making the PPT at first, but the other two dudes Zak and Prince were very active to do everything. At first we searched some information from the internet; then they began to organize every part to a precise structure. We did that in the team meeting every week. Because of no language problem, it’s natural of them to communicate with each other, but we can’t. Sometimes we even had to ask them what’s the meaning of when they spoke very fast. So most of time we just listened to them and they almost did everything. Because of this team work, we expressed our opinions to improve that. Our topic is designing the dragon car security system. We spent such a long time to finish the PPT so there’s no time to prepare the presentation. Each of us had a speech of our part with no preparation at first. Thinking of everything quickly and then explaining them by our own way. The presentation is just soso and we hope Chris can give us a satisfied mark.

this is my first time to wear a shirt. >>>>

Now the relationship between all of our international students is improved very well. We get on well with them and even become good friends to some of them. I’m glad to be in 2K and believe that we can do well in our studies together.

Tonight should not be lonely

Christmas is focus of most of my classmates’ interest these days.
开始过冬令时了,时差8小时...无奈啊
The weather is getting cold so most of us may be missing their family now. The wind is blowing strongly, just like a monster scaring us. Suddenly I find out that three months have passed since we came here. Though I had experienced that when I studied in Nanjing, I feel lonelier than that in Nanjing. Coz of such a long distance and a bleak room. My friend Zhang Hao has been back in China coz of his dear grandpa’s death. I’m sorry to hear that. So I wish my grandparents would keep healthy and have a good life.

I take one and a half hours of vigorous daily exercise at a gym every day, hoping that I could gain more weight. My purpose is 77KG but now I’m only 70KG, It’s such a long-term plan. I have confidence that will be attained in the future.

Now we are very sure that our course is very difficult, especially embedded systems and analogue electronics. Three assessments have been assigned so we will be busy in the next several weeks. We will also have presentation on the next Monday. Now I have made friends with other countries’ students in the class. All of them are good at English so they don’t have problems of communication. I can make sense of most of the lectures now but some teachers’ language speed is so fast that we can’t understand sometimes. Communication problems should be solved as soon as possible, I think.

Tonight should not be lonely. We should look forward and keep moving. A great number of knowledge is waiting for us to learn. Fighting!

It’s still two months from now to Christmas. But the Halloween will come soon. Here is some information about Halloween from Alex, thanks to him!

万圣夜（Halloween）在每年的10月31日，是英语世界的传统节日，主要流行于北美、不列颠群岛、澳大利亚和新西兰。当晚小孩会穿上化妆服，戴上面具，挨家挨户收集榶果。华语地区常将万圣夜误称为万圣节。
万圣夜英文称之“Halloween”，为“All Hallow Eve”的缩写，是指万圣节（All Hallow's Day）的前夜，类似于圣诞夜被称为“Christmas Eve”。“Hallow”来源于中古英语halwen，与holy词源很接近，在苏格兰和加拿大的某些区域，万圣节仍然被称为“All Hallow Mas”，意思是在纪念所有的圣人（Hallow）那一天，要举行的弥撒仪式（Mass）。
万圣夜通常与灵异的事物联系起来。欧洲传统上认为万圣节是鬼魂世界最接近人间的时间，这传说与中国的盂兰节类似。

Wish you all have a happy Halloween!

Blackberry Day

As soon as I was writing this yesterday, my laptop didn’t work anyway. Then it became worse even changed beyond my imagination. I’m busy installing the windows system the whole day. Soooo terrible! @##!% Fortunately my laptop is back again!

Not only this gloomy thing visited me yesterday, but also another one which can even make me mad. I didn’t have class yesterday’s afternoon. Coz of that I wanted to have a rest in my room at first. After class as soon as I found my bicycle, I felt very surprised. My bicycle was locked by the other one. A bad guy was a little foolish when he locked his bike. Then I had to decide to stay in TIC. Doing the experiment again in the lab with my other classmates... :( @##!% I even waited for that guy until half past five. I found his friend, he called him and then I survived finally. He said a great number of 'Sorry' to me. .........

Three weeks have passed since the new term began. I have made friends with many classmates who have different nationalities. Now my class is Electronic Engineering 2K. Though the members are less that that of 2J, we work together and believe that we can do well in our group work. Now listening part is not as difficult as that in the past two weeks. But my spoken English is also very poor. We still have trouble when we communicate with others. Explaining skills need to be improved, I think.


I found different staffs have different personality characteristics. Here is some information of staffs of mine.

大本, 阿X teaches Analogue Electronics and Digital Electronics, is always late when he has classes. Very efficient and kind hearted. English pronounce is good. I like him.

Drinker, teaches us Embedded Systems, has a very high language speed. So we should listen very carefully. His face looks very red when he has class, with such a bad alcohol smell. Soooo strange man!

Chris, teaches Market led Business for Engineers. Local gentleman whose spoken English is very good, with such a serious surface.

Today I had lunch in Big Work with "Little Fat" and Zhou Jialing. From then on my stomach is terribly big. So much delicious food! We enjoyed the meat, ice cream and fruit salad together. Six pounds, a little expensive. I decide to go there two weeks a time.

<< such a long line

such a lovely baby, enjoying her dinner with her family>>>

After the lunch we went shopping in the Bullring. I bought a shirt, which can be used when we have presentations.

New Term New Beginning

Several reasons prevent my Blog’s update for a long time. It’s a coincidence that my first week of the new term in TIC is the same week as the golden week of National Day in the motherland. I’m having classes while my relatives and most of my old classmates are enjoying their desired holiday. Good luck to everybody! Though I feel sooooo gloomy now!

Last Saturday we went to Bicester Village to have a whole day for shopping. That was my first time to get on a train in UK. The village is a famous shopping village although it’s very small. There are so many famous brand clothes here such as Tommy, Armani, Dior, Versace, LEVI’S, CK , POLO... All of them are terribly discounted. “SALE” can be seen everywhere so we couldn’t help buying lots of clothes which we liked. This is my first time to buy clothes in UK. A little luxury…

The first week in TIC is just all right and I have met all of the teachers. Listening problem didn’t influence me so much as I thought first. Maybe some vocabularies are too difficult to me now but I can understand the teachers’ main ideas. If I could concentrate on the teacher’s pronounce every minutes in the whole class, the content would be caught by me clearly, I think.

Yesterday evening I accompanied with my classmate Zhang Hao to try his part time job. He bought a second-hand car several days ago and we found a room service job. Thanks to the GPS we didn’t make the boss disappointed at first. We helped each other and worked hard together. After several times we had accumulated much experience yet. The boss felt satisfied and then gave us food to eat. 牛腩虾仁盖浇饭，So delicious! Unfortunately the key of the car was broken then so we must stop working and only earned ￡22 at last. We had to go home by bus. So terrible!

I think I will get a part time job in the next several weeks. But studying should be treated as the first state now. My course is difficult so I must study hard now.