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!!!!