APRIL3 Finally Friday came for me to go to Andy's house t have dinner! In the morning after eating breakfast I contacted a taxi driver and asked him to come over at about16:10 to take me for a ride to Lake Covell Boulevard. He finally arrivedten minutes later and called me. I ...
April1 How time flies! It has been a month since I came to the United States! Over the last month I have done something such as finishing the manuscript and designing some experiments and prompting the students to collect data for their graduation thesis. But I think I have notdone as much ...
March 26 TODAY I got up earlier than usual because I need to go to Memorial Union on the campus toattend the orientation meeting organized by the SISS department. I hurriedly ate up breakfast, which was oatmeal soaked in hot water, and then hopped intothe taxi that had arrived at the gate of th ...
March24-25 Thesedays nothing new happened. One thing worth mentioning, however, is that I haddeeper communication with Zhangjian, who now teaches at Chaohu University inAnhui Province. It is indeed a pleasant and mind-broadening experience to chatwith him in English... It seems hard to fathom b ...
March 23 This morning Isuddenly wanted to look for the information of Chantelle Snyder, a friend thatI started meeting back in 1997. It has been 18 years since the very firstencounter! I was just a freshman in North China Institute of Technology then inTaiyuan, and I can still remember the morn ...
March 22 The other day I bought at amazon.com an electric scooter, which cost me about 250 dollars. Without a reliable means of transportation, I have felt it so convenient to commute between the campus and the place where I live. It is true that I can hitch a ride once in a while because ...
March 21 It had been a l most a week since I last shopped. In the refrigerator the food was becoming less and less. So I email the landlord asking if he would drive me to shop and, to my excitement, he replied very promptly and told me that he would be heading for shopping in just 15 minutes. ...
March 19-20 These past two days I stayed home, busying myself with designing the experiments. It had been a long time since I used Eprime last time and so it indeed took me some time for me to become familiar again with this software. From this I think I have learned a lesson: I need to con ...
March 17-18 These two days my life followed this pattern: waking up late (around 10 am), having breakfast (oat meal or soybean +rice milk), started work (designing experiment) until about 2 pm, going out to the lawn to run for exercise for about 20 minutes, cooking and having lunch, taking a lo ...