haven't really felt like blogging for the past few days although i did have quite some free time. finally more or less settled in my room now! it feels really strange to call the room mine though, since i've never really had a room to myself. feels even stranger that it's supposed to be "home" for the next few months. and i thought it'd take me a relatively long period of adjustment and all, but by the second day i already caught myself saying stuff like "when i get home..." in reference to the dorm room.
nothing will feel quite like home
home though! i'm not exactly counting down to when i get to go back home to sunny singapore but i must say i'm quite looking forward to going home. this seems quite inappropriate given that it hasn't even been a week since i've been here. time seems to really slip away very fast though. it doesn't feel like i've been here six days. but i'm not moping around being homesick! although i must admit the first two days i was quite overwhelmed by all the things i needed to do by myself and was even starting to regret a little my decision to come on exchange. but i think the worst has passed, now that things are more or less settling into quite a comfortable routine.
the room's almost a little too quiet for me though. good for studying but i get restless much more than usual now. i never realised it before, but back home there was always some kind of noise in the background so i think i'm way more accustomed to noise than to complete silence. plus if i were a sim my social bar would be very low now haha. i'm really glad rachel is here with me though! don't know how i would have coped if i had been here alone. but we kind of both agree that even though we're right next door to each other once we close the door and go into our rooms it feels like we're completely isolated from the world outside. it was really hard to get used to this the first two days, but i think now i'm a bit more habituated to the silence now. maybe when i get back home i'll find home too noisy!
anyway school stuff will kind of officially start next week, and i'm half looking forward to it and half dreading it. as usual! i'm forever in two minds about everything. i'm a little worried about the placement test and whether i'll be able to get right back into mugging mood though, because i had such an extra long holiday i'm afraid i'm a bit too complacent about everything now. yesterday and today i tried to study for the placement test but like i mentioned earlier now i get super restless very frequently. i did manage to make a little headway though! just not sure if it'll be enough. if i'm not able to get into the module mappable to japanese 6 i'll have to take it again in nus and it'll be such a waste of time.
yi xiu comes to join us tomorrow and rachel and i are both hoping that she won't be too appalled by our way of life haha! we're seriously leading such unhealthy lives now. i'm kind of missing home-cooked food because all we've been having is convenience stores meals, instant food and meals outside. and in an attempt to eat more healthily we had to actively look for fruits to buy. so far we've bought apples and bananas! i'm very tempted to get kiwis since they're one of my favourite fruits but neither of us have knives so we can't have kiwis yet. can't wait for the bazaar on the 19th. apparently they sell cookware and utensils and stuff for much cheaper prices than outside so we're waiting for the bazaar to stock up on pots and pans and all sorts of cooking stuff. maybe after that we'll finally be able to eat more home (or dorm) cooked meals and less unhealthy instant stuff! now when i get food i find those meals proclaiming to fulfil one-third of our daily requirement of vegetables so appealing.
going to get my temporary alien certificate tomorrow morning. i think i'll bring my camera along so i can take some pictures of the campus to show you guys. it's actually a very pretty campus. and the trees are all gradually shedding their leaves now so i should take pictures before they all become bare. even then i think the campus should be quite scenic still. speaking of which, i'm totally here in the wrong season. apparently the trees lining the road at the back of the campus (which is what my balcony looks out upon) are all cherry blossom trees. imagine how pretty it'd be when they all bloom!
music: keu yeoja; baek ji young
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tune out the world ; 8:10 PM
