Five Weeks of Asian Madness: Monkeys, Cats and Squirrels.
Ok, wow, it has been over a month since I moved to Lingnan University. It has been crazy, amazing, overwhelming, peaceful, tiring, non-stop fun. I'm about to have my first holiday for the Chinese New Year, so I finally have some time to catch up and blog.
First off, some good news. The presentation I was freaking out about went well. The teacher asked if I had any previous experience with philosophy (it's a philosophy class.) He said he thought so from my presentation. I’m assuming that was a compliment, so yay! I really like my classes; most students here are very driven, so it's been nice. I also love all my teachers, especially this one that reminds me of Mr. Miyagi on the karate kid.
Now unfortunately, I have some sad news, though completely unrelated to anything relevant. First off, Lingnan is literally crawling with cats (do cats crawl?) For those of you familiar with Centenary's campus, I'll put it this way. For every one squirrel you see at Centenary add 50 cats and you have a rough equivalent. Lingnan therefore, decided to be responsible and started passing out info on "De-sexing your pet." Yesterday was the infamous day when all the cats were gathered up in crates and hauled off to a trailer to be "de-sexed" (insert cruel laugh here.)
...So needless to say it was a rather loud day. I was really sad to see my favorite cat Mei go, but he was back up and running today!
And while were on the subject of aminals (spelling intentional, its more fun to say) Last week me and some students went on an adventure to hike with monkeys! We took the train to Sha Tin and ended up on a rock surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of wild monkeys.
At first they seriously ALL chased us away! Then we saw a guy go by and swat them with a stick! After that we grabbed some sticks and went back in. After awhile they got used to us and we didn’t need the sticks. Some of 'em even let us chill and pose for pictures with them.
Now my cover is blown. Everyone knows I'm pretending to be doing this great academic and culturally enlightening thing, when actually I’m just out playing with monkeys.
