Counting Down-this time, I mean it

It's really time to go home.
2 weeks left, neither long or short...Well, I mean having beem studying overseas for 19 months...

My parents never made it to visit me in Switzerland... Dad was retired...once, but he's even busier at work lately... Mom is busy for.... everything which is not her business... Bagel is turning to 3 years old soon. wow... I've had her for almost 3 years... but more than half of the time, I was not with her... I owe her a lot though...

Still remember packing my luggage for 'first time away from home living alone', I wanted to bring lots of instant noodles but there's a weight limit of luaage made me have to give up my noodles. Mom said that they'd bring them to me when they went visiting... Well... glad I didn't wait for them.. otherwise I'd be hungry to death already...

Time seems past exteremely fast these 19 months, but when I think of meeting my crazy silly Taiwanese friends, feels like it happened long long time ago. The first semester was awesome, I got to have Monica as my friend and taught her lots of Chinese cultures. She doesn't seem like other sick western girls... sorry to say that but the western girls in my MA class really suck...

Monica is a hard working girl though, no party for her either. I think it might because she's way out of that age and energy. and she loved the Chinese noodles I cooked for her, haha. Even she got a problem with her BF once, but she acted sooooo cool and I think she's a brave girl that I always want to be. Yeah... she's brave... I guess 10 times more than me.. Classmates for the first semester were nice too, like I was still in college. I enjoyed learning Spanish, Korean etc. with them.

Oh, for sure I couldn't forget the Korean F4 whom my Taiwanese friends loved one after another... hmm... nice try....

The working semester, unforgetful either. My working department held lots of parties which really drove me crazy... hours and hours of work a day. There're only two girls in my department including me. and that time, I really saw how lazy some guys could be at work... Just always tried to take a break when the manager's away. Always talks more than work.... But most of the other working days were easy. Makes me felt that it's so easy to earn money...really... too bad I couldn't work in Switzerland any more... otherwise I think I could afford traveling around the world or buy a car.... Oh.. and the experience of being to a court was cool even my friends thought that I was soooo unlucky.. but actually I really gained some benefits that I think it's worth...

Viann and Ivy were two main girls that I really appreciate having them as friends within this time. They went horse riding with me. They're just like typical Taiwanese college students which made me feel warm and always like to try new things. They traveled a lot around Europe. When you saw their passports, we could see they got lots of stamps for being to Europe. They're funny too, but in a different way than my other Taiwanese girls here. They also helped me a lot when I was studying for the MA.

Oh, can't miss the Valentines day of that semester. It's the first time I really got a valentines flower even though I think the guy's really disgusting... but the first valentines rose is worth remembering though.. haha.. I guess I'd only received flowers from my dad for my graduation of college before that...

And there were nice trips for this semesters too, people might think I'd have been crazy for those trips. When I think of that now, I would still wondering where my courage was from... But I guess been living alone overseas relly made me grown up a lot and be much more independent...

The MA semester, no much worth saying, all I remember was studying, studying and studying. But for the first few weeks was taugher, I had to deal with the sadness of missing home, missing my grandma and the memory of her funeral yet at the same time kept working on my seem-never-end assignments. It was good that I got a one month winter vacation in Canada with Tina's family which really made me forget about the messy work for a little while.

Now, all the assignments are done.Going home was the only thing I always expected for this semester, but I kind of want to stay, stay here for a little longer. It would be nice, or just make the time stop here.

Face Off

It's quite a huge machine which its inside looks like you're in a changing room, except it's about 5 times bigger. It looks simple, and not hard to operate. Perhaps it's becasue it uses magic to run the machines instead of an engine. I came out from the machine, not sure which person's face I have now. But I was in a rush to the airport to pick Tina's famliy up from Toronto so I didn't have time to check myslef in a mirror. I was glad they could still recognize me even though I just switched my face with somebody else. I was so happy that Tina's famliy made it back to Taiwan this summer again. We could go night markets, amusement park, force our male cousins to go clothes shopping together again. Everytime I thought of hangging around playing with Tina, my confusing school works do not seem a big deal at all.

Gwen looked much grown up even though I just saw her in Christmas. She's almost Tina's height but still skinny. Tina looked much younger, like she's still in grand 5, the year she left to Canada. I couldn't wait to show them the machine I just went in. But we got to wait until we met the other group of people who didn't look ugly. Yeah, we must.... since Tina and I are both picky at handsome or ugly. Otherwise, we would like 5566 instead of F4....

There's another group of people already waiting there. I guess and was glad they agreed that our level of looking fit their requirement. And to prevent from worse looking people coming soon, both of the group decided to exchange our face with one another. Let me see, for our group, there were my playboy cousin, Tina, Gwen, my mom, my dad, my just married uncle and me. Most of the people in the other group were girls. Looks like they're from the same family too. a mother with several daughters.

The operator trunned the machine on. I thought I better stand infront of someone I wanted to be look like. Even the machine was huge, its' still a little crowded since there're more than 10 people. Somebody just pushed me to my dad. "Oh... I don't want to be like my dad again... I want to be looked like.........HER!" I found a girl that I always wanted to be look like. It's not with really big shinning eyes, pale skin, long hair. Actually her eyes were even smaller than mine, black hair to shoulder instead. then I figured out she looks like one of my friend's sister. Well, that okay, cuz' I nemver dream to be a really beaufitul girl but a 'country girl' one. It took much longer for the machines to run this time. the operator said that it would probably take 3 hours and recommanded us to stand right infront of the ones we wanted to be look like so that the machine can measure more accurate of the similarities of us and then it'd be easier to switch our faces faster. I heard somebody yelling to my playboy cousin to standing infrontof my just married uncle. Well, both of them have okay looks, probably someone wanted my cousin to grow taller. But I guess this machine helps people to switch only faces. Now I could feel the magic exchanging function working on my face.... just like the twisted faces in the movie The Ring I saw last night... My face is burning now.. Is my ears getting bigger?

Next time, I wish there's a machine that can switch my skeleton to a smaller one so that I can be cute little girl... how knows, technology.....

8/8 Done, the toughest is just going to strart...

Can't describe the feeling when I worte done the last word of my last assignment. Probably that was the last word I'd ever writen for an assignment. Probably no more study in my life. Actually, my study life hasn't really finished yet. I'ven just got 3/5 done. I've writen totally 30,000 words for 8 assignment. Classes over 3 weeks ago, I'm glad I got the last 3 assignment done on time in the past 3 weeks though. I should just take 2 days off and then start my 20,00 disseration. The due day is still far away, guess it's the beginning of August. Plan to do it within 3 months so that I can start making money as soon as possible. Can't wait to get a real job... although I have no idea where I want to work, what I want to do... just want to earn some money.... One of my friends got 200 A4 pages for her dissertation including the appendix, I'm wondering how many pages will my book be.... Maybe I should start organizing everything about my d-work since all the references I got so far are still in a mess...

18 months of Swiss life

People said I would miss Leysin a lot once I leave here. I didn't think so but somehow, I started missing this place. Every time I came back to Leysin from other countries, I started being hate this place. Especially when I was taking the train from the airport to Aigle, transfering another smaller train from Aigle up the the mountain. Everytime taking the train up could make me cry. 18 months of studyiing overseas life will soon be over. Now, I could see why my friends told me so. Lots and lots of memories in this little village from the first semester when I was still a very passion little girl always taking pics around till now I'm fed up with taking all the 'look-the same' scene pics. I was nice to have good friends when you're not with your family, otherwise, it'd be extra lonely. Monica had accompanied me for the very first 6 months while I was still not very familiar with my other Taiwanese friends. And.... I would never forget the crazy internship life with Cindy and Jessica. That's really a period of time I want to treasure and don't want to forget. MA life was quite taugh and I don't really get along with other classmates becuase of different life styles. but that's still a good life experience though. Lots of 'frist time experence' happened within these 18 months... kind of 'eyes wide opened' I told my friends that I'd never come back to Leysin again but now I think I'd take these words back. Looking forward to the next trip here.