夏天才开始 - Summer Finally Started

I've been meaning to make this post for awhile...Friday, we finished up our summer classes. For my morning class, I didn't have to do anything because I had already made my speech on Thursday. In afternoon class, we had to take a mock BCT(Business Chinese Test) which was pretty hard. Earlier in the week, I had two speeches on Thursday, an oral test on Tuesday, and a written test on Monday. It is sad that the morning class is over and that some of my classmates are leaving Hong Kong. Fortunately, a good number of them are still going to be here, so I will be able to see them next semester.

I haven't been doing much since break got off. I figured I would start learning Korean since I now have a lot of Korean friends. Yesterday, we went to Lamma Island. There are two ferries you can take from Hong Kong Island. One goes to a populated side, the other goes to a fairly deserted side of the island. We ended up taking the second one. We hiked for about 30 minutes to the beach. At the beach, it had a great view of a factory behind us. After swimming for a little while, we hiked to the other side of the island and ate dinner at a Lebanese restaurant, but we only ordered pizza. I'm really enjoying the time off.

Just a recap of roughly how many new words I learned this past summer. If we assume there were 40 new phrases per lesson (conservative side), and we learned 15 lessons that's roughly 600 characters from morning class alone. I can tell that my Chinese has improved significantly over the past few months while my English gets worse and worse >_<.