So, it's time to talk about my day. My day started at around 4p.m. today. Why? Because I didn't sleep until it was 5a.m. that morning. Anyways, my first class of the day was Humanities discussion. Right when I walked in, things started going wrong... Lately, Tom has been sitting at the seat on the left of me all the time. Just when I thought I would be able to sit next to him today, I actually ended up sitting on the corner seat because Angela decided to skip a seat. Since there weren't anymore pairs of empty seats, I ended up sitting where Tom usually sits. When he walked in, he immediately started for that seat I was in but stopped when he saw I was in it. He then swept his eyes towards my right looking for a seat but didn't find one until he was 5 seats over. So he ended up sitting really far from me. Oh well. It's just for a day. Towards the end of discussion, my T.A. decided to give us a project to do. Not only did I not get the topic of my choice, I also ended up in a group with Angela and another lazy guy. I don't particularly like being in a group with Angela because she often says "I don't know." to everything and then asks me to answer. Sigh... I can't really refuse her because she just turned over towards me and started suggesting what topic to do, meaning she already decided that I'm in her group. After that was done, I hear Tom said from the other side of the room "we need another person." I looked up and found him staring straight at me. Now, you might think that I say he is staring straight at me because I have a crush on him and am probably imagining it. However, he was looking at me. The reason for this is because everyone in the discussion knows that I'm a hard worker and whenever we have group presentations I am often the leader and speaker of the group. So that is why I know that Tom was looking straight at me and I'm not imagining it. Anyways, the T.A. heard what Tom said and before anyone else could say anything, he immediately elected on of the people who didn't have a group to be in Tom's group. I don't really blame him. It was the best thing to do in the situation. I only blame Angela for assuming that I will always do her work for her. After class, I asked my group what they wanted to do for the project and guess what they both said "It's only for 5 minutes right, we'll just B.S. it on the day of." I couldn't believe this, I'm in a group where people will not even try to earn a better grade. I have a feeling I will be doing everything.... On the way back to my dorm, I wanted to stop by the Humanities office to get more info on my topic. As I walk towards the dorr, guess who I see. Tom walking out of the office, holding the papers that I wanted to get. He came up to me and asked if I was going to the Hum office. It turns out that he managed to grab the papers just before the office had closed. Seeing my chance, I asked him if I could borrow his papers to scan and then give it back to him later. He said yea and I ran back to my room to scan the papers quick. I knew which suite and building Tom lives in because my friend also lives in the same place. However, after getting ther, I realized that I didn't know which room he lives in. So I asked a guy who had his room door opened. He pointed to the door and watched me as I walked up to it. Feeling uncomfortable, I slipped the papers underneath the door and walked out. STUPID!!! I should've knocked on the door so I can see Tom and say thank you or something. Maybe even ask him what he plans on doing for his topic. Anything but walking out without seeing him! Sigh... I'm retarded....
As soon as I got back to my dorm, I began practicing my guqin because I had a concert tonight. Guqin is a Chinese stinged instrument(look it up on wiki). At 7p.m. I walked over to the music hall and watched as the people run back and forth to get ready for the concert. I, alone with 6 other students, practiced with our home-made qin as much as possible (we had home-made ones because a real one costs about $300-$1000). Then we practiced on the real ones because we were going to perform with those and we have never played a real one before. Fortunately, the real ones turned out to be even easier to play than the home-made ones (see below).
This concert was put together last minute as a fundraiser for the Sze Chuan earthquake victims. Since everything was rushed, I never knew what the program awas before tonight. It turned out we had professional players from China and even a world famous guain and pipa player, Lui Pei-Yuan, coming to play at our concert. One girl that I have never seen before brought an instrument call a yang qin and started playing. For those of you who have never seen a yang qin before, it is one of the most amazing instruments I have seen. It has so many strings and it sounds super middle eastern. It was really awesome watching her play this instrument. The concert tuened out fine, even my part of it. Only thing that was a bit disappointing what Mr. Lui's grandduaghter's performance. I kinda feel bad for her, she had only been learning guqin for about a month, which was a shorter period than any of us, and she was already expected to play this piece that none of my fellow students can play perfectly because she was Mr. Lui's grandduaghter. All of us could hear that she messed up alot and was trying to rush the song. I just hope the audience didn't know. After the concert, Mr. Lui came up to us, thought he didn't speak English, and asked to see our home-made qins. He examined it very throughly and played with it as if he was a child who had found an interesting new toy. After playing a song on it, he gave us suggestions on how to improve them next time and even signed our home-made qins. HAH! The price of my crappy qin just went from $30 to $300! LOL! After that, my professor took us all out to dinner at a Shanghai restaurant. I don't really eat Shanghai food so I told the other people to order and that I'm open to any food. Because my ride and I arrived late, we ended up sitting at the vegetarian table. Although, I was disappointed that there were no meat, the food was still really good and I wouldn't mind eating it again. This is the first Chinese place that I have approved since coming to South California.
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