The service hours

Living in the dorm, every semester each student has to finish at least ten service hours. At the beginning of this semester, I wasn't worried at all in that I thought a semester was long enough for me to finish all the required hours without any trouble. However, as the days went by I started noticing that all my friends had started serving their hours and that I had yet to begin. Thus, I decided to get started by signing up for a job that made sure all the students swiped their card when entering the dorms. Since everyone who approached the entrance to the dorms knew I was sitting outside to check if they swiped their student IDs, they all cooperated, making my job very easy. Fortunately, I was done with most of my hours in the short period of two weeks, and now I only got two more hours left! J

Our new dehumidifier

Being a subtropical island, Taiwan has always been a pretty humid country. However, I’ve never lived in a place that is as humid as NCCU. When the weather is humid, the most  inconvenient thing in the dorm is that it takes centuries to dry my clothes. Also, the air condition was so bad that we could hardly stand it. The situation got increasingly worse as winter approach. It seemed that NCCU would never stop raining.

Therefore, after i dicussed with my roommates, we decided to bring a dehumidifier to our dorm. Luckily, my mom agreed to buy one for us. We were all looking forward to its arrival, and it finally arrived this Monday! Though I know we shouldn’t turn it on when there are people in the room, I still left it on for the first night. Next day, when I got up in the morning there were already 2.5 liters of water in the container! Apparently, it was really humid in our room!

Our First Mid-term

Our first mid-term exam after entering university is coming next week. I’m taking six exams, including English, economics, economics, Japanese, Japanese and Japanese! Besides, I still get two mid-term projects to do. As for my lovely roommates, two of them are both having five tests and the other girl majoring College of Communication Undergraduate Degree Program only get two tests in total! Though I really envy her a lot, I still have no choice but to face the music. I’ve been studying Japanese for two months already. However, being a total beginner in Japanese, I still found it very difficult for me. Therefore, I’ve spent most of the time studying it.

Next Tuesday is the 19^th birthday of one of my roommates. We planned to celebrate for her after all the exams. I really hope that I can pass every course with flying colors, and celebrate her birthday with other girls happily. Wish everyone good luck! J

Birthday Surprise

Last Monday was one of my roommates’ 19^th birthday. Nevertheless, it was already 10 o’clock when I noticed it and I was the only person in our room at that time. I waited until someone else came back. We discussed for a while, and then decided to buy her a cake to celebrate. However, we couldn’t get contact with the other girl. Therefore, I called a friend and asked him to buy one for us.

Unfortunately, our birthday girl went back before the cake arrived. When the cake finally arrived, we all made up an excuse to get out of the room but it was almost 12 o’clock at that time. We hurry to put on the candles and burst into the room. “Happy birthday to you, happy birthday……” We sang the song aloud. I could tell that she was really surprise from her face. I was really glad that we were on time and also very happy to see her smile.

Complaint from Next Door

This Monday, I left the dorm early in the morning as I always did. When I was about to close the door, I caught a glimpse of a small piece of paper stuck on the door. It complained of us making noise when closing the door at late night. I was a bit shocked at first, for I thought it was written by one of my roommates. However, I soon noticed that the hand writing doesn’t belong to any of them. Hurrying for my Japanese class, I had no choice but to leave first.

At night, I asked my roommates about the piece of paper as soon as I got back to the dorm. They told me that the complaint came from our next door. The only reason they’re so sure is that the people next door had already came in person before leaving that message. I felt extremely guilty in that it was mostly me that came back the latest, so it probably was also me that caused the protest. Even so, none of my roommates blame it on me. On the contrary, they comforted me that it’s not all my fault. I’m really happy to have them as my roommates. Most important of all, I’ll try my best to make no noise at late night!

Start living in a dorm

To me, one of the greatest changes between high school and college life is living in a dorm. In spite of the fact that I live in Taipei, I still signed up for a dorm in that it takes me more than an hour to get to school from my house. Fortunately, I did get a room, and I start looking forward to my new life since then.

Speaking of dorm life, the most influential element is the roommates. I was quite excited but also a bit nervous about getting along with my roommates. After all, living with three other people with completely different lifestyle isn’t an easy task. However, I soon found out that all three of my roommates are great people that are all easy-going. We chat and share our life with each other, and sometimes complaints as well. I feel really lucky to have them as my roommates, and I believe we will get along very well.