"Why are you there, again?"

Tuesday - Thursday, July 14-16

I was talking to Jason (a friend in Boston) recently and was asked - "Why are you there again?" and I had NO idea how to answer.

Due to the recent increase in swine flu cases, all of our classes were canceled, and would be held as web-based broadcasts for the next week. Literally, I could be sitting anywhere in the world and tune into my professors reading the class slides to us. But no, we are in Grace Tien hall on a mountain in Sha Tin near Hong Kong. There is no question that I am loving the experience and everything I have seen and done, but the class situation is very frustrating. Plus, all of the Northeastern students have Apple computers, so we can't even use the application needed to see our classes - creating more chaos.

With all of the problems with the network and the frustration from our professors, we have only had about 50% of our lectures this week, but have had the same amount of work. While we kept busy this week, we have also planned an exciting trip to Shanghai for the coming weekend, and have mastered our Jenga skills!

I have finally caught up on all of my reading for classes, printed and reviewed all of the slides, and feel prepared for the midterms on Tuesday. It is hard to believe this summer program is already half way done!

Off to Shanghai until Monday...