Ridiculous

This is not a normal morning. I've been waken up by a phone call at 7:30 in the morning, asking me if I've ordered food to xxx Hurley St. in Cambridge....(It was not my former apartment number but it was the right street...) I said to the guy who's on the phone that I didn't order anything and I'm now in San Francisco!!!

The guy told me that he's calling from the police office from Boston and he's trying to find out who made this order 3 weeks ago and still not paid for the food!! He also asked me if I knew anyone would use this phone to make the order. I told him that was impossible since I left the U.S in the middle of June and back to Taiwan. I only came back to SF(not Boston) on the 1st of August. The card is always with me and nobody could ever use it!! He asked me if the number is right, I said yes and it's a prepaid card. I didn't sign any contract with the cellphone company. He said he would talk to the cellphone company and make sure that this number is not double issued. He also said if it's necessary, he might ask me to attend a hearing!!!!!

What the hell is that???This is ridiculous enough!!! >__<

First Week of School

Well, just can't believe that I've been here only for a month!! I feel like I've been staying at this place for a long time~~~Homesick?? Not at All!!! I guess I'm really getting used to living in the U.S. and starting to feel comfortable about the environment here.

This week was a very intensive week. I had my program orientation on Monday evening and was threatened by our academic adviser that the program we attend is the most crazy one in USF. And he also talked about the working environment at financial district and how we should be prepared to get an internship right after we graduate. Ok...that was stressful enough...

Tuesday to Thursday, our program offered 3 review courses included "Quantitative Methods, Probability, Statistics," "Financial Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis," and "Financial Management." Every student in this program was required to take all of the review courses. and each one took 6 hours to complete!!! God~~~ First day, it was really a kind of torture since I haven't been to a lecture after the school finished in mid-May at MIT. It's not because of the language barrier but the feeling of going back to school. Fortunately, I felt better in the second day's class. And the third day, it became boring because I previewed the course material the night before. Humm....I'm pretty exited about what will happen after hour "Official" classes start. I'm looking forward to the "Life in Hell!!!!" :p

Last weekend, I finally got all my furniture and settled down. I have to thank dear Genny and Gene, who came all the way from San Jose to help me move all the furniture from the seller's place to my apartment. It was great to meet them again here in San Francisco. When I went to New York this January, they were also very hospitable, especially Genny kindly provided her room to Dolphin and me, which helped us save huge amount of money... Thank you both again~~^__^

For all the pictures from the very first day till now are now on my album.
http://www.pixnet.net/ening13
If any of you are interested in seeing what it looks like of my room, welcome to my album and check it out. I would say it's pretty cozy, and I really like it. I'll try my best to keep it as clean as possible. Hahaha~~

Here comes some "Gossip" part~~Richard and I are very good now. We email and text message to each other during the weekday, and we talk on the phone on weekend. Last week, we talked about visiting each other during X'mas and New Year. When I asked him if I could visit him during my winter vacation, he said he wanted me to reserve the flight ticket first and do not pay immediately. He said he would like to come to SF to visit me, but he needed to make some arrangement with his boss and other stuff. I was flattered that he has the desire to visit me in the U.S. So I waited for his news and tried to contact a travel agent to check the tickets. This week, he got the result that he will be unable to leave at that period of time. Therefore, he said he'd be glad if I could make it to visit him in Germany. Of course I will go!! I want to travel to Europe so much for such a long time!!! And now he's there, I'll definitely get the ticket and fly to him as soon as I finish my semester. Hence, if there's no accident, I'll be in Germany for X'mas and New Year. Hehehe.^__^

Alright, I got to do some reading now because my first class starts tomorrow from 8am-12pm, which means I have to get up early and catch the bus to downtown financial district. Hard life begins!!!!

SF Adventure--New Beginning~

Dear All,

I've been in San Francisco for almost 3 weeks!!! Things here are so far so good. Some of my families came with me on Aug.1 and they've already gone back to Taipei on Sunday(Aug.12). I felt relieved when they left, but also a bit lonely, since I was always busy hanging out with them, and having no time to really settle down my own stuff. But I'm fine now. There are still a lot of things to do within this 2 weeks. I've got my desk and chair delivered the other night. Now I have to arrange another delivery for the rest of my furniture. Will post on some pictures of my room after everything is done. ^__^

I have to attend the International Student Orientation this Friday(Aug.17), and my roommates are going to held a small welcome dinner party for me on Friday night. School starts on Aug.27, so I still have some leisure time for relaxing and get accustomed to the living environment here.

Honestly, I like Boston and Cambridge better. SF is a beautiful city for sure, however, I can hear a lot of Chinese, Cantonese, and even Taiwanese here!! Also, the bus is full of Chinese(or Asians),
which makes me feel that I'm not in the U.S. but in some big Asian City....The most serious thing that I can't stand is the homeless people and very weird people on the streets. I feel nervous and scared sometimes while I'm waiting for the bus alone at late night(9-10pm). Actually, one of my roommates just got a punch on his nose by a teen-aged black boy at the bus stop near our apartment!! He didn't do anything to that boy but just answered a few questions he asked, then the insane boy punched him without any early warning!! What a Shock!! Although this is not my first time being in SF, I still can't get used to this strange situation. Fortunately, I'm not living in downtown but close to the Golden Gate Park, which is much quiet and safer(well, that punch event doesn't happen everyday...) My class will be hold in downtown every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning for this fall term. That means I can go back to school or home in the afternoon and stay away from the crazy and crowded Union Square. I think I'll only go there when I really need to do some shopping...

Anyway, besides the above complaint, things are so far so good here. My roommates are all nice people, and I have a quiet but convenient neighborhood. I'm also not far from my school, the GG Park and the Alamo Square.

Oh, another thing which is not so good is the WEATHER!!! It's too cold here!!! Come on!! It's summer time!! How come it's so chilly at this place?? Totally can't get used to it, especially I arrived from a very warm place.....I was a little bit ill at the first few days here....

I went to some other places with my families last week. Carmel, Monterey, and 17 Miles Drive. It was a one day tour and everything there is so different from SF or Boston. It's another kind of relaxing style of living. And on Wednesday(Aug.8), I was on another 3-days tour to Oregon, including 4 national parks(Red Wood and others...) The scenery there is absolutely beautiful. The weather there was also great. Although the bus ride seemed to take forever, it's still worth of going those places. Will also post on more pictures of these places later.

This is my new blog. Hopefully I'll have enough time to write down more articles about my life here after school starts. ^__^

Ciao~~