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Hello friends! It is currently 2:02 AM Taipei time, and I'm finally home after a lengthy trip to Taichung and Yunlin. I figured I would write this post as I wait for my hair to dry so I can sleep, even though it's awfully late and I plan to be up early tomorrow morning... our apartment is so small that I'm scared to use the hairdryer when everyone's asleep, but sometimes it's hard to avoid. Descriptions aren't going to be very long, because it's still rather late at night.

This morning my parents and I got up at seven and left the house around eight and set off for Taizhong. We got there around eleven, and boy, Taizhong hasn't changed much since the last time I was there.

We waited on a street corner for 培淳 to come and pick us up. Come to think of it, I forgot to take a picture of it, but you notice that building composed of blue blocks in the upper right hand corner? My parents pointed out how ugly it looked when we were standing in the shade waiting to be picked up. I thought it was innovative, but art is so different to different eyes. 

Anyway, 培淳 picked us up and we went to Dad's friend's house for a visit. When we got there, there were workers trimming the trees outside. Dad's friend was waiting outside for us, and he immediately showed me this, and it gave me a good scare: 

Can't tell what they are? 

That's right... baby birds. The workers must have disturbed them when they were trimming the trees, but they managed to save the nest. Dad's friend said that the mother usually won't come back if her nest is disturbed, which is deeply saddening. He asked me if I wanted them, and for a few minutes I was seriously considering taking them home to Taipei to take care of them. As I picked up the nest, two of them craned their necks upwards with open mouths, as if waiting for food to be dropped in. Their skin is so thin and so fragile; I could observe their veins moving up and down as they breathed. I did really want to take care of them, but I had no idea how I'd possibly get them back to Taipei, and how I could find the time to take care of them regularly. In the end, we left the nest at the 警衛 station and went in the house. We had Thai cuisine for lunch (really good!). 

阿姨 offered me a 芭蕉 when we got back to the house. Looks like a banana, but it's not. It's sweeter, tangier, and Q'er than a banana, and tastes better, in my opinion!

Anyway, after the 芭蕉 was nice and finished, 培淳 drove us down to Yunlin. It took about an hour to get down there, and I had a nice nap on the way. The school took a while to find, though...

My brother's school is, quite literally, in the middle of a field, in the middle of nowhere. The entire school, which only houses a number shy of 70 students, consists of one two-story building and the track field. One upside was the extremely cool and comfortable weather, which, according to the principal, was a result of a recent rainfall.

Anyway, Kalvin showed us around the school, and I met his teaching partners. They were nice, for the most part, but I only had a few minutes with them and my first impressions were all correct, according to my brother, when I took him aside for a chat when my parents were talking with the principal. Oh, well. All I really care about is the fact that he's having fun... and that's all that matters! 

What a day. I give up on my hair... I'm going to blow-dry it and go to bed. Goodnight! 

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Oops. I haven't updated my blog since the beginning of June, and I'm going to get a measly little (2) under my June archive! Generally, I like to accompany my updates with photos, preferably ones that I take myself.

• I packed up everything in my dorm room and I'm just about ready to go. Four more packages onto my uncle's car and I'll be out of 大一女! All three of my roommates left already, so I came home to stay tonight. When I walked into my room this evening to get the last of the things I was going to carry home by bus, my voice literally bounced off the shelves because it was so empty. :( It feels so 空! 
• I'm spending my summer in Taiwan because I simply can't fit in time to go home in between the school activities I have over summer, and in addition to that, my grandparents aren't doing very well. 
• Lots of things happened this June. 理院盃. My birthday. 系羽送舊. 男排送舊. Finals. June was a whirlwind, but it was the best month I've had all year long, despite being the most stressful and the most tiring. I sat on the edge of insanity for a good two or three weeks, but I was so happy. I wish I wrote down all my feelings and how everything happened... but usually, I write those on my P2 版. 
• My brother comes to Taiwan in less than a week! I can't wait for him to be here, I miss my brother terribly. He's also bringing good things for me from California ... :) 

Anyway, tonight, my cousin made pasta. Vegetarian, but so good! Next time we'll try spicing it up with onions or chicken slices or greens or something like that. I miss my mother's pasta, but tonight's dinner was faintly reminiscent of the homestyle meals she used to cook. I must learn her ways. 

I'd go on, but I'm staring at bags and bags of luggage in my room right now, and I really need to unpack, before I go crazy. Oh, and clean the house, but I think unpacking should come first. Toodles~ 

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I don't want to study for 台維 ⋯ 考古題 is giving me a bad headache, and I'm not looking at anything except my moleskine planner right now. I even color-coded my schedule to some extent, the end of April and the beginning of May are not looking pretty, at all :(

hmm, well. weekend looks like this:

( 03/23 ) Saturday » 送爸爸去桃園國際機場 » 9:10 回台大 國文小考 » 男排比賽 ( 照相, 記錄 ) 10:30 B隊 vs. 公衛，場A 14:30 A隊 vs. 西格馬A 場A 16:30 A隊 vs. 第一企鵝 場B » 18:30 舊體打普累 ( 03/24 ) Sunday » 隊服營 10:00 @ 4c 教室 » 男排比賽 ( 照相, 記錄 ) 13:30 B隊 vs. 第二企鵝，場B 15:30 B隊 vs. 農經 場A » 晚上：系羽隊聚 @ Bongos

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todayyy.

• lab midterm in the morning. we finished at 11:30 this time! I ran back to 漁房 to get my volleyball shoes and change. 妞妞 told me I was going up first because she hurt her knee :(
  
• volleyball game! two kills, two points: two failed kills, two points for ntuba. cancels out in the end, haha ;口; I was too nervous today, but I'm still so happy I got to play.
  
• it was so hot today; I felt like 我有點中暑, so I went back to my dorm and slept ... accidentally, for four hours －ᄉ－
• I woke up just in time to go to the Normandy speech with Cathie and Peter, who tagged along in the end.
  
• it felt really good to wear a dress today :) 今天有三四個人說 “雙雙妳為什麼今天穿得這麼可愛！” and that's why I like to dress up every now and then. not to mention it was ideal clothing for the weather...
• in-class essay tomorrow, 喔不...
  

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Ick. I've gone through the "gosh, this blog is getting messy" stage more than a hundred times in my short eighteen years. I did some early spring cleaning, though it's only half done. I've been so terribly lazy lately. I haven't had the motivation to write entries, to study, to do all the things I said I would do. I've become scared of myself. Where is the enthusiasm I had for all those things, before I entered college? Where did my passions, my self-control, my life—go? I feel like I'm not living a life right now. I'm just going through motions, motions that don't mean anything, not anything at all.

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today,

- chemistry lab final in the morning. ten minutes before the test started 敬智, 胡仁恩, and I all had our cell phones out, calling people who lived in the dormitories who were likely to oversleep. I called 林志豪 (the person who overslept his last chem midterm...) after Peter told me to call. I called five times, but when I gave up he walked right in -_-

- after the final, 女九 for lunch 好久沒吃自助餐了!

- 張敦偉 tried to hop 賈媛's bike when the two of us were biking to 女九. 賈媛's too nice to say anything, but she was going "啊，不要啦，我們只不過要去女九而已啊..." and I looked ahead and it was not ten meters away from us. You can walk! In the end he had lunch with us, but he wanted a ride back to 漁房 afterwards and I was just like ......... I can't take you -_- in the end, I lent him my bike and 賈媛 gave me a ride back. /sigh

- I saw 林柏澄's girlfriend for the first time today, albeit a back view. He kept telling me not to come over, but I went anyway, to steal a look. She's actually very pretty :) and he said he'd tell her I said that.

- after 賈媛 gave me a ride back, I walked to 公館 and met 何閔, 夏心怡, and 陳偉民 at the MRT station, and we went to 北車 for 31 冰淇淋 :) Baskin-Robbins in Taiwan is so much better, I tell you, albeit more expensive. APPLE SHERBET. You can't get much better than that.

- came home with 何閔 because 夏心怡 went back to 附中 for her 學妹. took a nap because 何閔 kept predicting I'd fall asleep -_-; then my dad called and said he'd arrived in Taipei.

- went to dinner (刀削麵) and then 湯圓 at 台一 with my dad.

- came back to my dorm. and I'm currently working on this darned lab report.

:)

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今天上完微積分 在新生大樓樓下和陳怡靜，夏心怡，黃馨儀會合
決定要去吃飯，但完全不知要吃什麼
所以我就先載陳怡靜回系館 回系館的路上我們聊得超開心 一路笑回去 最喜歡陳怡靜了 : )
陳怡靜說好久沒跟我吃飯了，今天一起吃吧！

結果回到漁房發現林敬智在大一桌打電腦

同時，江卓安問我有沒有要回宿舍，她想借我床來睡個午覺

在跟她商量時，就看到林敬智和陳怡靜在講話 結果他們就慢慢往漁房門走了...

陳怡靜轉頭問我，雙雙，要不要吃飯啊？

我看他們兩個同時回頭看我 我去簡直就是當討厭電燈泡不是嗎？

“唉，你們去，你們去 （揮手）快走，走走走！”

林敬智：靠背!!!!!!!!!!!!

陳怡靜：笑 XD

結果就走了! 看吧，你們兩個... kawaii des!

太 好 笑 了

到最後我就載江卓安回我宿舍 他現在在我頭上睡覺 我在寫國文作文

要專心了！

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為何台灣人 PO 文永遠宅 PTT!!! 大哭

難怪我覺得來看我部落格的拜訪人物 一直都為此這人數 但沒人留言我也不知你是誰 科科

一個PO文也只不過一兩行～ 我這一個 PO 文不只

為何為何為何 PTT 黑暗暗的! 嗚嗚 (誤)

anyway 看男排比賽永遠是開心的

看到他們今天輸了，還是微笑，我也沒有太難過

加上今天晴朗舒服耶

但拜託下次那件事不要說哪麼大聲好不好 = =

“李雙應該已經把剩下十五分都記下了” fuuuuuuuuuuuu 人家都聽得到欸!!! @_@ (難過) (推敬智頭)ㄍㄧㄚˊ 溪郎

今天體育課練球練得非常開心

效率當然比不上練球時間但還是一樣 good

傍晚爸爸到台北把美國的東東運給我 真是 超 好

科科我爸什麼時候回到台灣我都不知 真是不孝順的女兒阿我

明天和獸醫系打友誼賽 good!

後天跨年～ 那天去看看阿嬤吧 借不到教室我們大一就悄悄瀰漫漁房吧～

還有!! 大一我們要快排戲啦啦啦啦啦啦已經快來不及了!! 三驗逼近呀呀呀 (江奕賢!!!)

唷～ 累了，寫報告 study 時間 李雙 out!

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today I...

woke up late, found my passport receipt (in my wallet, of all places!) after a frantic scouring of my entire dorm space, checked timetables for my return flight to California (I can't wait to go home T T), didn't go to volleyball practice (rain, I hate you on Sundays the most, let alone Christmas Day), facebooked with NTULS people (as per usual), listened to a lot of music, ate 7 for lunch, and I'm going to a party with 品淨 tonight.

Not productive. Something is wrong with this picture... other than that, not having to write 結報預報 is really 爽!

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this post is messy because i don't have the energy to organize my thoughts.

two birthday celebrations today.
i was on edge until the minute i saw them coming back to the 系館
clue: how jonathan asked me to senior ball.
and everything was wonderful from there :) coffee cake and crew, thanks 展展 and 冠宇!

freshmen scriptwriters finally, finally started the new script.
we went up to the ninth floor and sat down with my macbook.
we stared into space for a long time.
we wrote two and a half scenes in one and a half hours.
not going to reveal anything just yet...
but anyone we pick as the new narrator is a poor, poor soul :)

friends
family
ntuls

ahhh you guys are so wonderful!

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I almost forgot we haven't even started writing the new play script yet. schedules schedulesss /eyes prelim calendar warily... I made this calendar! Why am I not following it?! At this rate we might not produce a new script/actors in time for 三驗 waaaaaaaaah cries /frustrated

In addition:

» calculus quiz & bio midterm this week
» 跨年 plans and preparation
» plane tickets and passport issues and 生科盃 plans and winter break plot
» pamphlet translation by wednesday (yaaaaay definitely not sleeping tonight /kicks self)
» secret santa this friday
» piano practice, two hours/week
» scarves and hats to be completed
» finals (what are finals? 可以吃嗎)
» a million things I need to figure out for 男排
» volleyball + badminton practice 4+ times a week = I am going to die

Theoretically, my life should be sleep-deprived. Yet notice that 80% of these items are not academically-related. Oh Karen, you haven't changed.

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(現在應該是讀書或睡覺的時間，但今天實在很快樂，一定要先寫下來 以後要盡量這樣過生活)

今天早晨 6:03 起床 (用心的慧詩學姊竟然打了八通 morning call 給我... 害我好羞愧 T T)
去練羽球！雖然只有睡到 4 小時精神非常好，打了將近兩個小時
早上練球真的讚欸 那種感覺跟傍晚練完全不同
練完球去女九買早餐 我第一次吃女九的早餐
讚啦!!! 真的很好吃 慧詩學姊真的對我太好了，還載我回大一女 =)

上微積分 心情算不錯
雖然有趴桌一下並沒有很久

下午也就沒課啊～
一下課就陪愷欣去SEVEN買中餐 去共同吃 一邊聊天一邊吃
聊到系上的活動與人性
和愷欣聊天 我永遠快樂～
接下來的時間就待在漁房... 讚哥，怡靜，昱雯還有其他同伴們幫我讀小說
好愛你們喔

晚上去地震練排球 看到有場就會開心起來
今天 球感算不錯 我現在盡量能夠接到位了！
和妞妞 & 昱雯跑動船 跑了超過一百遍 讚～
謝謝若晞陪著我們練給我們建議改變我們姿勢！

今天總共練了 6 小時的球...
早起... 精神好好 以後一定要這樣過生活
效率也會變好

我真的好開心 =) 好吧，雙雙要睡覺去了～ 晚安！

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紀文敏說我很有美國人的風味
ㅠㅠ 有點想哭 文敏說台灣人比較害羞 我比較直接
aigoo 我是不是太兇了 囧 要 mellow 點

(8:00pm)

雙雙想去逛街啦～ 需要買衣服＋新的皮夾啦 QQ
媽媽希望我回美國買衣服 價值比較好
叫我上網去找我想要的衣服 她幫我去買 甚至幫我試穿等 XD 媽媽對我真好
難得買衣服 反正我也不常去逛街
覺得我一個人去逛，特別是在台灣，會怪怪的...
唉 回家買還是比較好
同學們你們來美國玩啦～ 保證不會失望 XD

(10:54pm)

writing a letter to you, reminiscing on everything that happened before I left, is breaking my heart. as the pen moves across the paper and the words come tumbling out, I miss you more than ever. I wish you were here... I never feel quite complete without you.