Homesickness

When people ask me "do you feel homesick?" I always answer "No, I don't miss Taiwan that much". However, I think carelessly about my cats and some small things of Taiwan several times every day. Sometimes I lost power to do things. Suddently, I realize I am homesick.

One thing bothers me a lot... as I stay aborad longer and longer,I know that I am losing the connection of everything in Taiwan. I hate this feeling...

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

I read a story about a foreigner who rides his bicycle about 120 km to a farway elementary school to teach English in Taiwan. In the end the reporter quoted this poem "The Road Not Taken". Especially for the last two sentences "I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.". It takes a lot of courage to choose the road that less traveled by. Life is all about making choices.

Below is the whole poem.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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MBA-滿月記

念了一個多月的MBA，日子果然難過。
首先,深刻了解自己的語言弱勢，簡直是無比沉重的打擊。討厭背英文單字的我終於也自食惡果...有時候上課會被不懂的字卡住，導致部份內容聽不懂還談什麼吸收和問問題?教授的口音也是五花八門...最可怕的就是有些教授的義大利文口音...可以讓我完全呈現昏迷的狀態!!像是財務分析...都必須靠自己下課後看課本...才能領悟教授上課時的內容 ~>_<~所以下課後必須要用更多的時間來彌補...sign!

同學們來自世界各國是很好...但是我還沒辦法融入世界各國的口音...同學們講的很高興,我有時候會呈現茫然的狀態...也很令人挫折阿!!!沒辦法和同學有更深入的交談很令人挫折...只好拿出招牌傻笑--->但這不是我要的阿

雖然才開學一個月但是考試和作業已經如潮水般地湧來...接近滿堂的課外,還要再找時間跟同學討論作業...還要唸書準備考試...念MBA一定要有社交和人際網路,於是改變我的阿婆生活慣性,每週跟著同學們學去跳舞喝酒...時間真是不夠用阿阿阿阿...別提那個很難念的義大利文阿...我英文都顧不好了...怎麼攻義大利文?那個捲舌R音我始終發不出來...但我真的好想講得一口流利的義大利文阿!

坐在課堂上，環繞著世界各地來的同學，教授在課堂上講到的主題剛好可以印證過去的工作經驗的時候，然後又可以從商業的觀點開始有系統分析問題的時候，就會覺得走了這麼遠的路來念MBA是有價值的!

開學到現在都還在努力調適中，深刻了解自己的不足必須要用加倍的努力去彌補，才能追上大家。4月中要考多益...但是我一直沒辦法找出時間來念多益。心上始終懸了一顆大石頭...無法放鬆...壓力大到睡不好...沒胃口...如果有人看我的照片覺得我瘦了...那是真的!!!但根據經驗法則...等壓力平衡後...很快就會像吹氣球一樣胖回來了...更重要的是...我要快點想清楚...念完MBA後我的目標是什麼!下一步我該往哪裡走...才能及早佈局..找工作還債絕對是刻不容緩地...

失衡的我...還在努力尋找平衡點...