Recently I made a move to live with my cousin, who gave me a room in her apartment. She lives with her boyfriend here and they had a spare room. Since they live nearby to Feng-Chia University, it is very convenient and they have given me the room for free. Their apartment is really nice and in fact they had a small room with gym equipment which I can use. (Including a running machine)
The only issue (I don’t really see it as an issue) is that they don’t know how to speak English. However thinking about it, it will help me excel in learning Chinese, since all I can use with them is Chinese. So I am forced to use Chinese, as opposed to my parents who know English well.
I am just glad I have such a big family in Taiwan of cousins, aunts and uncles. – I am also equally thankful that the place they have is literally 5 minutes via walking to where I go to study Chinese.
So I am quite pleased at the moment. I also recently bought a nice laptop. I don’t have the specifications of it on me right now, but it is quite a powerful laptop even though it only has a 14” screen. However I didn’t want to spend too much, so I went for the 14” as it was considerably cheaper than the 17” or above laptops.
So how is my Chinese studies going?
Let’s just say learning Chinese is not a walk in the park. You have to study hard to get it and understand it. I cannot focus sometimes and considering I have ADHD (Or what I believe to be ADHD) I find it hard to focus in class and I always keep moving since I seem to have so much energy in me. But I am getting much better at Chinese, though I am not learning as fast I would have liked. When I did my course at college in web development, I found it very easy, while others found it hard. I guess learning actual said languages are hard for me as opposed to programming/scripting languages. Although if the course was computer-based via the use of typing Chinese, I think I would learn Chinese very easily. Things are going OK, at least or so I think, I am not the worst student in the class. I also had a test today which was fairly easy. Though I don’t want to jinx myself, but I believe I got nearly every answer correct. There is just one character I didn’t know how to write. So I was quite disappointed in not knowing that character.
