One of those days.

Have you ever had one of those days that you have to stay in a room full of people from around the world and try to figure out how to ask each other's names in Mandarin, run to a conference room just to sneak out right after the MC invited the first main speaker to give a speech, run down from 2nd floor to Lower Ground 5th floor  to 10th floor to Ground floor to 11th floor to Ground floor again to go get dinner in a Cantonese speaking party, go up on stage to try to sing out a Cantonese song for everyone to guess what song it is, run all the way back up to the 2nd floor again (G-10-G-11-LG7-2), and then attend another meeting just about 2 hours late?

...well now I have.

I started today off with my Putonghua/Mandarin class. It is everything but easy that much is sure. I had fun with it anyways though. Some of the basic sentences we practiced today are :

Nǐ hǎo. : Hello. (literally translates to "You good")
Nǐ jiào shénme míngzì? : What is your name? (literally translates to "You call what name?")
Nǐ xué shénme? : What do you study? ("You study what?")
Wǒ xué gōngchéng : I study engineering.
.............Etcetera 


After classes, I ran to International Students' Association(ISA) meeting for the inauguration of the new president. I had to sneak out early because I also had another appointment with my dormitory, hall 3, which also intercepts with another appointment I have with AIESEC, a famous international leadership organization.


At the hall 3 dinner, one of the organizer, Samantha who tells everyone to call her "The female Sam" even though nobody knows of "The male Sam", asked me to participate in a game for everyone to enjoy. What happened was, they let me hold an ipod playing a Cantonese song that I have never heard of before in my life and try to sing out the words for everyone in the whole room to guess the name of the song. 


It....was.....HILARIOUS.


One of the songs they gave me didn't even sound like human language so I could only imagine how my singing sounded to the people in the room, but one of hall members ran to the front of the stage and answered it correctly anyways. I almost jumped down the stage to give that guy a hug right then.


After hall 3 dinner, there was the AIESEC recruitment talk. It was enjoyable in a way since I only had to sit in and listen for an hour instead of three and the people are really nice there. I am very interested in joining AIESEC because I think it will be something I can really commit to and widen my horizons at the same time.


AIESEC website : http://www.aiesec.org/hong%20kong/