So it's been a whole week of living here in St Louis, and normally this would be the part where you say, boy, time has flown by. But it hasn't. Its summer here so the days have been long and exhausting haha. My first four nights in my apartment were as a lone wolf, but luckily one of my housemates has moved in now and I have someone to talk to about irrelevant things that happened during my day.
I've been at law school orientation all week sitting through fundamental classes, like "Active Reading", "Study Skills" and "Touring the Law Library" where they teach us to become comfortable with being uncomfortable and not to use our English translation dictionaries all the time. I mean, how am I going to survive without my translation dictionary?
Luckily I've met some pretty awesome people this week from all around the world and the cultural differences have provided endless conversation topics. For some reason, about 80% of our international cohort are girls, so it sort of feels like I'm at an all girls high school.
People have tried to figure out where I'm from and whenever I say Australia, I have to respond to the puzzled faces with, "But I'm Chinese." Then the most common proceeding question has been, "Are both your parents from China?". I guess there must be some lack of coherence between my accent, appearance and personality lol.
I don't want to write too much so I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking.
I've been at law school orientation all week sitting through fundamental classes, like "Active Reading", "Study Skills" and "Touring the Law Library" where they teach us to become comfortable with being uncomfortable and not to use our English translation dictionaries all the time. I mean, how am I going to survive without my translation dictionary?
Luckily I've met some pretty awesome people this week from all around the world and the cultural differences have provided endless conversation topics. For some reason, about 80% of our international cohort are girls, so it sort of feels like I'm at an all girls high school.
People have tried to figure out where I'm from and whenever I say Australia, I have to respond to the puzzled faces with, "But I'm Chinese." Then the most common proceeding question has been, "Are both your parents from China?". I guess there must be some lack of coherence between my accent, appearance and personality lol.
I don't want to write too much so I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking.
My street: Wash Ave
These rascals are everywhere!
Law library dungeon style lighting
Homeboy's hometown
Cheaper than Sunnybank - $6.50 for two nights worth of Chinese plus leftovers for the bin.
I've got a locker! It really is like high school.
legit.
The beautiful Charlotte and Sara from The Netherlands and Portugal
Wash-U's favourite building
Not sure about this one. Only in America.
Maria, Teresa and I at the ice-cream social that the law school held for us in Forest Park.
Teresa's best angle haha.
Charlotte and Sara.
My new European friends :)
My french housemate Edouard with our haul from the international student free furniture giveaway.
The pineapple cup was a good thrift.
They took us to Forest Park in one of these, for the "full American experience". I guess I can sleep at night now.
2 comments:
Ice cream social? Ummm... yes prease :) x
So so awesome. Yay that I get to stalk your exp's via your bloggy!
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