yeyj:
Hi!jingyang_nfls:
Finally.jingyang_nfls:
What happened to msnkiller.jingyang_nfls:
?jingyang_nfls:
I started waiting for you since 7:30.yeyj: Nothing.
yeyj: Have you downloaded the beta thing?
jingyang_nfls:
You are still using yeyj then?yeyj: Sorry for waiting for such a long time.
jingyang_nfls:
that's all right. Did you read my email?yeyj: Sure. I sent you theat name in case yeyj still doesn't work.
jingyang_nfls:
you didn't reply so I didn't know when you'll be here and stuff.yeyj: Not finished yet.
jingyang_nfls:
Ok. It still doesn't work, I mean I cannot see you online.yeyj: Give me one minute to pant. I've just jogged for 2.4 km.
jingyang_nfls:
Who cares.jingyang_nfls:
Give me a break. You are kidding.yeyj: Never mind, as long as we can carry out this last chatting.
jingyang_nfls:
for P.E.jingyang_nfls:
?jingyang_nfls:
or just like to exercise?jingyang_nfls:
you don't seem like the type.yeyj: The school holds such jog twice a term.
yeyj: My hands are almost numb. So be patient.
jingyang_nfls:
Oh, ok. I am done with P.E. classes.'jingyang_nfls:
Just took my driver's written test today.yeyj: Just wait for more time.
jingyang_nfls:
Yeah, I am patient, I noticed that you type a little slower than usual.yeyj: When would you get the certificate for your driving lesson?
jingyang_nfls:
How is everything going then? Heard last Friday you went on chatting on some website.jingyang_nfls:
the final license? After a year.yeyj: Yes, I said nothing but sent out a lot of nonsense.
jingyang_nfls:
I can get my level one in Oct.yeyj: Really? How many more lessons are you taking for driving?
jingyang_nfls:
The Korean guy who chatted with me emailed me and he forgot who I am already.yeyj: Will it affect your course in schoolthen?
jingyang_nfls:
another 4 hours of driving, or 8 lessons.jingyang_nfls:
we'll drive after school and on Sat.yeyj: But when you send him message, our name will appear.
jingyang_nfls:
yes, with school, it will be very busy.jingyang_nfls:
our name?yeyj: You are coming back to school next Monday?
jingyang_nfls:
no, Tuesday.yeyj: Your name, sorry.
jingyang_nfls:
No, I made up a nickname.jingyang_nfls:
And when I sent him an email, I temporarly changed my name.yeyj: So you mean you will become as busy as you used to be last year this time?
yeyj: Or even busier.
jingyang_nfls:
exactly.yeyj: That is suffering. I use different accounts when writing to different people.
jingyang_nfls:
So, that's why I said it's gonna be our last chat before you come back from China.yeyj: May be time consuming, but more secure.
jingyang_nfls:
I'll stick to hotmail and hotmail only.jingyang_nfls:
Just stubborn.yeyj: Yes. When is the end of your first semister?
yeyj: Sorry for the wrong spelling.
jingyang_nfls:
I am not sure, but I think we are moving in Oct.jingyang_nfls:
After I take the PSAT.yeyj: Will that mail you sent me be the last long one this year as well?
yeyj: Only two months left.
jingyang_nfls:
probably.jingyang_nfls:
Yeah, then there's new school, new place to live, new friends.yeyj: I rememered how I kill the fortnight in NFLS before coming to Singapore.
yeyj: Do not misunderstand.
jingyang_nfls:
and my piano lessons and clubs will be interrupted.jingyang_nfls:
do you mean you were eager to leave NFLS?yeyj: Are you looking forward to a new life style? I was quite keen befoe coming here.
yeyj: Not now.
jingyang_nfls:
excited?jingyang_nfls:
No, I don't think my lifestyle will change much.yeyj: No, I wanted to stay with my friends. But as you know, we were driven apart already and couldn't see each other daily.
jingyang_nfls:
Just my new high school will be much bigger.yeyj: I had to decline this and that.
jingyang_nfls:
You are going backjingyang_nfls:
that's good enough,yeyj: Are you sure? Where is it then?
jingyang_nfls:
reunion and telling your friends your "adventure".yeyj: Yes, I am happy of that now. Hoping you would go back soon as well.
jingyang_nfls:
probably Troy.jingyang_nfls:
I don't know about that.yeyj: Exactly. And apologising non-stop.
jingyang_nfls:
Waiting for that exciting day!yeyj: Where is Troy?
jingyang_nfls:
It's OK.yeyj: For you or for me?
jingyang_nfls:
a suburb of Detriot.jingyang_nfls:
Don't apologize.yeyj: I haven't received anything from them for more than two weeks.
jingyang_nfls:
I cannot spell the word as well.yeyj: Is that city as big as Houghton?
jingyang_nfls:
Did their school already start?jingyang_nfls:
much bigger, and the school is giganic.yeyj: Never mind, there is a little difference in spelling everywhere.
jingyang_nfls:
it has as much students in one grade as we have in our whole school.yeyj: Really? Still a High school like the one you are staying in?
jingyang_nfls:
So, do you read news very often?jingyang_nfls:
what do you mean?yeyj: That sounds terrific! How much exactly?
yeyj: Don't tell me Troy is a middle school city.
jingyang_nfls:
600?jingyang_nfls:
no.jingyang_nfls:
I don't think I'll like big schools, just too many people.yeyj: Yes, I almost went to see Yangtse everyday, and the main CHinese and English newspaper here everything.
jingyang_nfls:
in NFLS, it's different because we had classes and we know about 50 people.yeyj: That is too much.
jingyang_nfls:
My parents do, I don't. I watch Chinese evening news on TV.jingyang_nfls:
boring also.yeyj: How many people are there in your class? And how many classes are there is you grade?
jingyang_nfls:
They don't say much about anything.yeyj: Can you watch CCTV, the international channal?
jingyang_nfls:
there's no class division in the U.S. 126 people in my grade.jingyang_nfls:
Yes. CCTV 4 or whatever.yeyj: I see. So you have different lessons in a distinct group?
yeyj: I don't know much about it.
yeyj: So how many people are there you know well?
jingyang_nfls:
regarding the Tian mien square and Cultural revolution, I don't know much at all. And I don't wish to discuss it because the U.S. always say bad stuff about China.yeyj: 126 people is simply too much. ANd 400... Cannot imagine.
yeyj: While China is always trying to conseal everything.
yeyj: Sad.
jingyang_nfls:
we each have our own schedule and we run around between classrooms.jingyang_nfls:
20 people per class.yeyj: I cannot watch CCTV in hostel, there isn't cable televsion here. I can only watch some junk extravagancy produced by SIngapore.
jingyang_nfls:
Well, China has too many people, if each say his/her own opinion, it'll be totally chaotic.yeyj: Forgive my terrible spelling.
yeyj: Sure. I undertsand it, but we shall have tohe right to speak!
yeyj: Things are already mch better now.
jingyang_nfls:
I don't think the U.S. news cover the various opinions, I don't believe that there's no one who wants to say some good stuff about China.yeyj: So you can read more fair comment on net.
yeyj: If available.
jingyang_nfls:
Oh, I constantly compare American and Chinese education system and read a lot about them.yeyj: Well, would you like me to pick up more links for you in the future?
jingyang_nfls:
everyone in the U.S. was taught to reject and hate communism.jingyang_nfls:
I have enough, like sina, lots of links.yeyj: I enclose a lot of newspaper clps when writing to people inm China, and they got bored by those political stuff finally.
jingyang_nfls:
just that I don't visit the,.jingyang_nfls:
them.yeyj: You know Lee Kuan Yew. the senior minister of Singapore?
jingyang_nfls:
people's daily, Yangzi.yeyj: I never read people's daily.
jingyang_nfls:
no. Sorry, I know next to nothing about Singapore.yeyj: I that kind of party stuff. I can neve renjoy them.
jingyang_nfls:
My parents have all these newspaper/magazine site in their bookmark.yeyj: Wang Yu knows more about that person than me!
jingyang_nfls:
He cares about politics, right?jingyang_nfls:
just not my interest.yeyj: Well, he led the people here to achieve independence. But he used to abhor the communism China?
yeyj: !!!
jingyang_nfls:
I visit k-12 site.jingyang_nfls:
www.k12.com.cnyeyj: I don't know how Yu's like now.Let me try to solve the mystery months later.
yeyj: What is that?
jingyang_nfls:
people don't really think about communism from different views, they are either at one extreme or the other.jingyang_nfls:
Wait a sec.yeyj: The website you gave was wrong.
yeyj: At least seemingly.
jingyang_nfls:
what?jingyang_nfls:
it sould be right.jingyang_nfls:
Well, if you want it, I can check to make sure later.yeyj: I hope it would be something like some science laws, which would be disputed and accepted at last.
jingyang_nfls:
right...yeyj: Thanks. How free would you be in the near future?
yeyj: Right?
jingyang_nfls:
I don't usually surf on the internet to read news and stuff, but to do research for research papers.jingyang_nfls:
Not very.yeyj: Since you wouldn't hae reserach paper next year, do you mean you won't surf the internet any more?
jingyang_nfls:
Do you know that Chinese teens go on the internet for entertainment and u.s. teens go to find out about information? I read that in one of the Chinese education news.yeyj: K12.com exists, not the cn one.
jingyang_nfls:
yes, the cn one exists.yeyj: Sad. I cannot comment on the situation here. You know enough about it already.
jingyang_nfls:
I am not going to argue with you, but I am sure about that, wait a moment, let me see.yeyj: Not here! I typed for times.
jingyang_nfls:
http://www.k12.com.cn/jingyang_nfls:
I just checked.jingyang_nfls:
and I can read the news fine.jingyang_nfls:
I don't know what is wrong over there.yeyj: Ah, yes, I managed to open it with netscape. Darn the IE!
jingyang_nfls:
What are you doing, did you get it to work?yeyj: Why do you go to that site?
jingyang_nfls:
Oh, I use netscape all the time.jingyang_nfls:
Just to read some news about the teens in China.yeyj: I cannot open hotamail here with Netscape.
jingyang_nfls:
about their lifestyle and school and stuff.yeyj: Just problems all over.
jingyang_nfls:
Comparing, think about what would I be like if I am still in China.yeyj: You know there is some problem with netscape 4.75 or somthing?
jingyang_nfls:
your school's computer systems is a mess!jingyang_nfls:
no. And I don't use 4.75. i use 4.6yeyj: Yes. Now there are so many people playing game sand screaming, while the teacher didn't bother to stop them.
jingyang_nfls:
Warning, my internet will disconnect in 20 min.yeyj: I give up. Never get to new computer well.
jingyang_nfls:
It's not allowed in our school.yeyj: Everybody must be enjoying their lives at home if we are still in China.
jingyang_nfls:
They simply ban you from using the internet if they caught you playing games.jingyang_nfls:
Not really, struggling to get top grades.yeyj: Ok, I will take care. How can you know the time clealy?
yeyj: Clearly.
yeyj: Now is only nine o'clock. So everyone must still be slumbering.
jingyang_nfls:
I click on the connectiong thingy and see how many minute I've logged on.jingyang_nfls:
Everyone is your school?yeyj: Ok, so will you be there later?
jingyang_nfls:
in?jingyang_nfls:
I guess.yeyj: Or when would solve that problem?
jingyang_nfls:
Is Singapore's school system any different from Chinese?jingyang_nfls:
never. It's mich. tech.'s restriction.yeyj: Hey, what does "in" man actually? I meanthe cool meaning.
yeyj: I told you that there are minute differences. Mabe it is the same in UK. very bad.
jingyang_nfls:
I was think about how come if there are so many excellent students in China, how come CHinese never won Nobel Prize?jingyang_nfls:
yes, you told me that, but I am just trying to compare.jingyang_nfls:
what are you talking about??jingyang_nfls:
in means in.yeyj: Because there aren't first-class facilities, as what most people thought. However, people there sometimes carries some kind of strange burdens. I cannot explain.
jingyang_nfls:
I never think about it in any other way.'jingyang_nfls:
I am confusing myself.jingyang_nfls:
What about literature?yeyj: But there in means cool sometimes, I don't know where this meaning is from.
jingyang_nfls:
You don't need facilities for that.jingyang_nfls:
I didn't know about that. for example?yeyj: No, simply not enough literature. People are still arguing about it sillily. I cannot see the point.
jingyang_nfls:
I hated Chinese text book, in Chinese.yeyj: Some 4-year-old child here begins to read Sishu (four books), Necessary?
jingyang_nfls:
about the literaray piece they pick, so boring.yeyj: The one here is even more terrible.
jingyang_nfls:
No. It's the 21st century. four books?yeyj: I read on the net that the new edition Chinese text book for senior students are very "literary".
jingyang_nfls:
I'll like to read classics, from all over the world.yeyj: ??¨º¨¦
yeyj: Can read?
jingyang_nfls:
I heard that too, but I don't know how that would eventually be meaningful.yeyj: Also from China? I don't understand Shakespear truly.
jingyang_nfls:
what?yeyj: Those drama thingy... I haven't got that flair.
jingyang_nfls:
I had difficulty with that too, like ancient English.jingyang_nfls:
I get the basic meaning, but the words are just too difficult to understand.yeyj: recent is hard enough. kidding.
jingyang_nfls:
I only read Romeo and Juliet and the tempest.yeyj: I don't know why he enjoyed new coinage so much.
jingyang_nfls:
Rose is still a rose if called by any other name.jingyang_nfls:
kidding.jingyang_nfls:
he? who?yeyj: Can you remember the Merchant of Venice our class performed three years ago?
yeyj: That is nice memory.
jingyang_nfls:
Give me a break. That was in Junior 2 and I already left.yeyj: Really?
jingyang_nfls:
Jiafei told me about it.jingyang_nfls:
Yes. YOU have a bad memory.yeyj: Sorry for my bad memory. But when is the English Festival?
jingyang_nfls:
I don't remember.yeyj: Seems that we haven't stayed together for one month. Things all mixed up.
jingyang_nfls:
I only had it for one year. Forgive me for that.yeyj: She was the Shylock, right?
yeyj: Very nice ti should be.
jingyang_nfls:
I think so. She didn't tell me. She said she has several characters.jingyang_nfls:
well, the first year in any middle school is confusintg.jingyang_nfls:
sconfusing.jingyang_nfls:
confusing.jingyang_nfls:
I hate myself!!yeyj: My memory... You needn't highlight it actually. Never mind. Since you understand it well, I won't have to apologise for it any longer in the future.
yeyj: Don't get fretful.
jingyang_nfls:
All right.yeyj: That is ok.
jingyang_nfls:
Did you left when Senior 1 classes actually started?jingyang_nfls:
You knew who were in your classes.yeyj: Yuelei was Antonio, Wang Xing was the judge, and Suyuan was one of the wives... I cannot remember English names at all.
yeyj: I had two weeks' lesson, but didn't actually learned something. All distracted.
jingyang_nfls:
Ok. Wait, I heard that some NFLS students came to the U.S. for summer camp or something. I never knew where they went or who went.yeyj: Oh, I knew it.
jingyang_nfls:
I wasn't really distracted when I heard that I was going to leave. But I think I didn't do as well in the final exam.jingyang_nfls:
Tell me.yeyj: When we were in Junior Two, we were told that already. But no one could spend so much money on that.
jingyang_nfls:
Where were you going to visit?jingyang_nfls:
if you went and all that.yeyj: However, some seniors went there. I don't know much about the activities. They went to Washington DC and New York. That is all I know.
jingyang_nfls:
and how much does it cost?yeyj: Thousands of dollars.
jingyang_nfls:
Oh, tell you what. I have the day off on sep. 1st.jingyang_nfls:
Oh, ok. But you get scholarship for coming to Singapore, right?yeyj: Not the exact number. But Hongying, Jingjing and Dinging shoud know more.
yeyj: Yes, but don't mention it.
jingyang_nfls:
OK. I won't.yeyj: Why do you mention that break? I won't have you waste that precious time anyway.
jingyang_nfls:
How are your SATs?yeyj: Nothing much. I am languishing.
jingyang_nfls:
Precious time?yeyj: However, I am not so bothered by school work now. Getting more confident, hopefully.
jingyang_nfls:
It's only three days in school, I won't have much homework.yeyj: Yeah, you should eke out every single minute to remember as many things as possible right?
jingyang_nfls:
I could be, I am taking two English classes, so there'll be at least two research papers.yeyj: Still research papers???
yeyj: What do you do research paper for?
yeyj: For the English subject, I mean.
jingyang_nfls:
no, I've come to a break, My scores improved a lot, and I am more confident on the SATs.jingyang_nfls:
Back.jingyang_nfls:
I have to go eat supper soon, we cannot chat for much longer. When was the last hour that I ate, don't recall at all.jingyang_nfls:
Hello??yeyj: Was there disconnection?
yeyj: Sorry for leaving for a minute.
jingyang_nfls:
yes. What else.jingyang_nfls:
Are you going to watch the Olympics?yeyj: I am still reading your lst line and try to understand.
jingyang_nfls:
Oh, what line?yeyj: Sure. I won't be too busy, I wish. Since it would be the last term then, there will be a lot of tests. But I don't bother.
yeyj: When was the last hour that you ate?
jingyang_nfls:
Don't your grades determine which college you go to?jingyang_nfls:
or GPA?yeyj: I cannot see it.
yeyj: Not this year.
jingyang_nfls:
Don't know. I didn't eat for a long time. I had driving lesson, piano lesson, went to pick up blueberries.yeyj: It is different in Singapore from US, we have to work hard in the last year. The same as in China.
jingyang_nfls:
Probably 12 a.m.yeyj: You eventually have the time to pich them?
yeyj: Nice thing...
jingyang_nfls:
Stomache begins to protest now.jingyang_nfls:
pich?yeyj: Sorry, me too. I didn't take the breakfast for oversleeping.
yeyj: pich? Ingore the words you cannot understand.
yeyj: Pick it should be.
jingyang_nfls:
I have to maintain straight As, which is not too difficult and I have to do well on standard tests and I have to have many different activities.jingyang_nfls:
Yes. in a nice big farm.yeyj: I know it perfectly now. I see how you would be like in the next year.
yeyj: So I know what to expect as well.
yeyj: As an ending.
jingyang_nfls:
plus driving and moving. America is not heaven either.yeyj: Was it a sunny day overthere?
jingyang_nfls:
Oh, don't be so sober.jingyang_nfls:
Extremely hot.yeyj: I know it. Where would be the Elysium? Not on the Earth.
jingyang_nfls:
Not while you are in high school.yeyj: The brief rain season here seems to have gone away.
jingyang_nfls:
I don't know when comfortable life will come. I don't even know the meaning of a perfect life and happiness.jingyang_nfls:
It was getting cool a few days ago, and it turned extremely hot.yeyj: But you are leaving the high school in one year, and who knows that you might find a El dorado during that time?
jingyang_nfls:
tranlation needed!jingyang_nfls:
I am not very good in Spanish!yeyj: Things here are not so fickle. But I prefer the variable things to be exact.
jingyang_nfls:
in two years, correction.yeyj: That means.. In Spanish "the gilded", well, in English might be "a great abundance of wealth, etc" Not very sure.
jingyang_nfls:
Senior year is applying and getting acceptance letters from colleges and earning scholarships.yeyj: Two years?
yeyj: I am getting confused.
jingyang_nfls:
Yeah, I am in the same grade as you, right?jingyang_nfls:
since when did I skip a grade?yeyj: I heard that November is the last chance to take SAT.
yeyj: To you as well, right?
jingyang_nfls:
no, there are four chances in one year.yeyj: I don't know. I don't care.
jingyang_nfls:
Ok, whatever.yeyj: The school season in Singapore is too strange. Cannot compare.
jingyang_nfls:
I am a future planner. Kidding.yeyj: When would you receive the SAT score?
jingyang_nfls:
I heard that aliens cannot earn many of the scholarships,jingyang_nfls:
I haven't taken it yet.jingyang_nfls:
aliens living in the U.S.yeyj: The marking speed in SIngapore is terrible. We would have to wait for four months to receive our grade.
jingyang_nfls:
aliens outside of the U.S. may have a greater chance.yeyj: WHY?
jingyang_nfls:
6weeks.jingyang_nfls:
because of low income.yeyj: I believe you are good enough to face any challenge ahead. So march on!
jingyang_nfls:
Thank you, that's a nice thought.yeyj: Low income... So they can get fellowship instead.
jingyang_nfls:
That's why I like to complain and complain.jingyang_nfls:
scholarship for college, full scholarship or half.yeyj: I think of a lot now.
yeyj: Recalling all the thing happening in the past three months.
jingyang_nfls:
but my family will have a medium income, still not enough to pay the tuition fee and stuff. so lower chances of getting in.jingyang_nfls:
Past three months? why?yeyj: COuld you please say less about scholarship? I just feel it might made us feelmore painful.
jingyang_nfls:
sorry.yeyj: When you have more time.
yeyj: So that is a strange thing actually. Poor everyone.
jingyang_nfls:
are you getting a little bit down, I can sense it.yeyj: I mean you cannot suppress yourself.
jingyang_nfls:
k.jingyang_nfls:
I have to get off in two min.yeyj: The siituation is China is not any better, the tuition for college is also thousands of yuan.
jingyang_nfls:
pity.jingyang_nfls:
everywhere is the same.yeyj: Fine, so I'll expect you here again during Christmas time in China.
jingyang_nfls:
What are we fighting for anyways.yeyj: When the ancient Cathay is blanketed with snow...
jingyang_nfls:
Don't be so down. I will probably have more chances to chat with you BEFORE that.yeyj: Sounds great, doesn't it?
yeyj: Really? When? I am quite happy in fatc.
jingyang_nfls:
don't know now. Depends. I'll email you when I know.yeyj: For now, all fixed thoughts. Emailing is ample.
jingyang_nfls:
You can write to me while in China. i am almost as eager, maybe more eager than you.yeyj: Provided there are still some feelings in between.
yeyj: Write? You mean email or what?
jingyang_nfls:
I write my emails in a hurry now, I think you can tell, not enougth time to arrange my thoughts.yeyj: It doesn't matter. I'll see to it.
jingyang_nfls:
Have to go. Bye.yeyj: Yes, so do I. But chatting cannot assemble them, corrct?
yeyj: So see you, wish you to have a nice term!