Wednesday, December 15, 2004

country road, take me home ...

well, it has been almost two months since I wrote at here last time. I just finished a very busy quarter. Tonight (I don't know whether I should say yesterday or today since it's 3am now and I am still here) I finished grading of one final exam at midnight. Thanks to my friend Eric, I can leave proctoring and grading of the other exam to him. I just updated my teaching webpage and also my homepage to say happy holiday to all my students and friends. If you happenly read this post, then my greeting is also sent to you.

Six hours later I will wake up and go to airport. From there I will return my homeland. I am sorry to my parents that I have been away from them for a very long time. I know that they are missing me very much but this time I need to go Beijing and Hangzhou first for a couple of days, before I go back home to be with them. I am missing my parents, brother and sister too.

Am I excited now because of going back home? Not exactly. I am not sure why I am still here instead of sleeping. I just found that I have many things to do before I lay down on bed.

I will stay in Beijing for three days and my schedule at there is almost full now. I need to meet with my friends such as my college classmates and my teachers, also of course, my godmother there. I also need to help my friends at here to sent their gifts to their family or friends from Beijing. And I also need to do some shopping, for my friends and I. I just bring a few sets of clothes this time since I want to buy some new ones in China, to update my closet.

Today (or yesterday, whatever, Tuesday) my advisor sent me an email about one new idea on research. I am sorry that I didnt get his email in time that I miss the meeting he asked. From him I know that to be a good or famous scholar you need to be unique: he even think about research few hours before he leaving for a conference travel. He always works so hard and a lot of new idea came out from his genius brain. It's my fourth year studying at here with him but I just learned a little so far. I need to work much harder to obtain more training. I hope that after this vacation I will start a brand new life.

Ok, it's time for sleeping. I will be in China in 24 hours. Hope that everything goes as smooth as I wish.

And happy holiday to all my friends.