...and had another scary week of school.

After barely studying over the weekend, I was kinda worried that I would be dead or something, being a mugger and all. But for the Organizations class I overheard people saying they didn't do the readings cos it was too boring :| ArGH to the Orgs class. So far everything that's been covered, I've gone through in that Public Sector Organizational Behaviour module last year. What a waste of time. Though the material quite applies to RHOC.

So on Monday, Yvette and I went to visit Jason and Andrea at their house in Verano Place, right next to campus, to check out details of their small group at Saddleback. They were very nice and friendly, and had interesting stories to tell about loving Korean food and teaching English in Japan and being German. They're gonna start studies on the Purpose-driven Life so we might join them.

On Tuesday, I met Tomomi, an exchange student from Japan, for tea. [Break: Super hungry shall eat Doritos with pesto Hummus that we got from the farmers' market.]

Yum!!

Back to the story. I was wondering why she said she needed to meet me, when I figured it was cos she needed help getting a mobile phone! Her written English is very good, but I think she lost her confidence with speaking and understanding cos the Americans speak so American-ish. As in, with all the intonation and blurring of consonants it's sometimes hard to understand.

After helping get a Tmobile prepaid card with a super expensive samsung phone that's cheapo in Sg, I brought her to In N Out! It was next door and I hadn't had lunch.

Can see? I was served by Barbie! And they NEVER include the tax in the price.

Tomomi!

All the fast food and the cold gave me a sore throat though :(

Remember the scary classes I was talking about? They weren't as scary as I thought, cos I managed to pass the time without saying anything. I didn't do the readings for Coercive Diplomacy due to lack of time, I mean you should see the STACK of stuff they expect to be read, so when I got called on I blanked. Oops. We got assigned our projcet groups and I'm working on Policy options for Natural Disasters and the India-Pakistan conflict. Really good training for the future. If I survive.

For the Israel class, we got a political advisor from the Israeli consulate in LA who gave us a lecture on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. I was really affected by the video showing that Hamas uses its own people as human shields, and sends toddlers as suicide bombers. Terrible!! All the CNN reports on the war are so biased, making Israel seem like an aggressor when the real threat to the Gazans is Hamas.

Sitting on a bench passing time til class starts.

The weather's been really nice these few days, with temperatures of 17degrees at night to 25 in the daytime. Almost like Singapore. Almost. People are wearing shorts and slippers all over campus.

Riding the shuttle bus home. I do this from Mon-Wed.

The place I hung out at listening to the jazz rehearsal at the Music building. The room's down the stairs at the left .

I went home earlier today so they hadn't started their rehearsal. I did see a double-bassist warming up.

Watch out for the next post on Weekend Trip: San Diego!

(We just came back from arguing with the guys about not staying so close to Mexico, at Chula Vista. Staying at the beach instead at a hostel... hope everything works out ok...)