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I feel like I have to say some final words about my trip abroad. Honestly, I don't feel like I've learned much about other cultures and all I really did was have fun which was a nice experience in that aspect. I've developed a love for traveling and I realize I should really go out and have some more fun. Stop sitting around at home and call up my friends! Finally in response to this blog's title, I can't say I'm any more of a fob now than in August. The only differences are some bangs and fob glasses :P

At the airport with my aunt and uncle

I know that I may not have had good grades this semester but as of right now, I have no regrets since I met such great friends abroad and had such great fun with them. Hopefully I'll see each and everyone of them again sometime in my lifetime. Rightly now I'm aiming for Germany this summer and London in 2012 at Alex's house for the Olympics. See you all there! :)

Tatsuya's Birthday Dinner during Examination Period

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Short notes on the past month

For the first twenty days of December, it was basically crazy studying to catch up on an entire semester's worth of material. Yes. I slacked off like crazy so I didn't study throughout the semester and fell asleep in class. I really wish they had midterms or something so that I would have at least half the material in the brain when i'm studying for finals. I basically lived at the library for a week from the 11th to the 20th (4pm to 6pm or so, sometimes I'd get there a little earlier) and ordered delivery in groups with my other exchange friends (they weren't caught up in their studies for the same exact reasons as me).

I would like to rant about my final exam experience for my Cell Biology class. Usually in the States, you would have exams where they ask you multiple questions testing your knowledge on around 70% of the material presented in class through short answers. At HKU, we were given 6 essay questions. Choosing 4, you would spend 2 hours regurgitating as much information as you can. The questions I choose to answer were something like "Na-K ATPase is very important in cellular processes. Explain" or "Write short notes on two of the following--Adherent Junctions, Collagen, ????something i dont' remember" or something about how things are imported and exported out of the nucleus and so on. The questions were just so freakin general and tested a minuscule amount of information I memorized for the course. It just didn't seem right. I was tested on basically a total of 12 slides out of like...150. Totally uncool.

During my last days abroad after completing my exams, I just splurged like crazy. Bought lots of stuff and ate lots of food no matter the price. I mean, my mentality at that point was eat as much in HK while I can since I won't be here for a while. So, I'm now 10 lbs heavier and realized I am still lacking in souvenirs. oopsies :P