My Semester So Far

This Semester has been really good so far. I really like my roommates. My room-roommate Kristin and I get along really well. We didn't talk for a long time because she'd be out all day with her boyfriend and then would get home right before curfew and I'd be asleep. But now she's been coming home earlier and we talk a lot before we go to bed. She's really fun!
And Courtney is really nice too. She's a history major but wants to change to International Studies. So we're both in International Politics. Same teacher, different time though. But we can still study together.
And then Holly is really really quiet. We say hi to each other and that's about it. I want to get to know her better, but I don't know how to start a conversation with her. But things will work out.

I really like all of my classes. I'm really excited to keep learning Chinese, our teacher speaks to us in almost all Chinese. It's really overwhelming, but it is good for us. I feel like it'll help me pick the language up faster. And then Cultural Anthropology is going to be really interesting. I really really like it so far. And International Politics started today and it sounds like it's going to be really interesting. Lots of reading, but fun.
Money management will be the most boring, definitely. But it should be an easy A.
And then Old Testament is a LOT of reading, but the teacher is great and the class is great and I'm actually pretty excited for it.

And then today the Chinese tutor came in to our class and announced that the Chinese Culture Association opening social was tonight. I knew about it last semester and never went. But I want to try and be more social and outgoing this semester, so I decided I'd go.
So I went to it and it was really fun. I met these two Korean guys (both really cute). One of them kind of ignored me, but the other was really friendly and was really impressed that I knew a little Korean. I hope he's there next week so we can talk more :)
We played a game that's kind of like Fruit Basket or Do You Love Your Neighbor, but the Chinese version, called Da Feng Chui.
After that, we split up and played different Chinese games like Mahjong or Chinese checkers. But I went to the group that was playing Chinese Chess, because that sounded like an interesting game to learn. It was interesting, I want to learn how to play it better. But it's hard because the tiles have traditional characters written on them and it's the only way to tell what their "rank" is, and I can't read them.
But then the friendly Korean guy (Brian) came over to me and said they play that game in Korea too, and he knows how to play. And apparently they play it in Japan too. With the Traditional Chinese characters and everything.
I'm definitely going to keep going! I'm excited to get involved with this group!