The adventures of a self-declared permanent student

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Well, I'm at another fun filled day at work. I must admit, I'm a little hungover today, so it makes work all that much harder, but I suppose I should recount the actions of the past few days before charging right into today! I last left you on September 22, which was last Thursday. Well, I spent Friday trying to find out how to get a student card (which was supposed to be done by our organizing group, but wasn't), after getting 3 photos (which I had taken at home) and filling out a few forms (one asking me for my religion & hobbies - I hope God understands when I put "none" only to avoid any funny business & what was I supposed to put for hobbies? Reading? Watching soap operas? I'm not sure what they expected) Anyways, after planning to leave for the "fake market" at 10, the student card business and other fun miscommunication - one of which was a girl falling back asleep - we finally left at about noon and arrived closer to one. We shopped for about 3 hours, oh my goodness, I've never seen so much Prada, Gucci and burberry!! Ridiculous! I bought myself a pair of earrings, a pair of Louis Vuitton Sandals and a couple of tank tops for about 30 bucks (altogether). It was wild, and I was exhausted! I had a pretty bland weekend, lots of essays and assignments this week, but last night (Sunday night) there was a Queen's Alumni event at a wine bar called Senses. We met John Dixon
the Associate Vice Principal (Academic) of Queen's University, a very nice man, who is here for the centenary celebrations being held by Fudan University (I saw a bunch of it televised - it was wonderful, except for the foreign student's bit - it was a little bit of a disaster). Anyways, besides the 14 or so of us, there were only 2 other alumni who came. Needless to say, there was lots of wine, some "finger food" (onion rings and chicken fingers), and overall a pretty fun night.

* Right about here is where my e-mail to myself ends (where I wrote the post at work this morning) and I started to write about teh rest of my day, but Blogger sucks my bum, and when I went to spell check it, asked me to log in again, and lost the entire post. So I'm a little peeved! *

This morning I was woken up by a knock at my door, turns out Sophie, my Fudan buddy, found out where I lived (in which room) and had to wake me up because I didn't set my alarm last night (no mom, I didn't have that much wine). Well, I may have looked like I just got up (which I did) but I was pretty good (and got a seat pretty early on the one hour ride to work in the mornings). I met with a few people at the paper and now I'm going to be writing about gender issues (their "feminist section - which is not really what it is, but it's what they call it). The first one is about how the university declared equality boundaries completely overcome (in enrollment) because over half of freshment are female. That's not to say that it isn't distributed equally, which is what I'd like to look at for this article. But if you'd like to read more, you'll have to tune in!

Later folks

posted by Jenn @ 9:50 a.m.