Exchange Diary (CityU Students)

After the Kairos Society’s summit in New York, I turned to Oklahoma today.

I missed the flight in this morning due to traffic congestion. I had to re-book the airline ticket and caught a standby plane. This was the first time I have ever experienced problems with missing a flight. I was able to be calm with this accidental situation.York, I returned to Oklahoma today.

Overall, the trip was a great experience to me. I met many new faces from all around the world. And I have learnt a lot through interacting with the young entrepreneurs. The summit helped to promote entrepreneurship, stimulate idea exchange, and increase students’ awareness towards different cultures. After the summit, I had an extension trip to visit a number of well-known university campuses including Yale, Brown, Harvard and Columbia. This 2-week trip left me with a lot of beautiful memories that will never be forgotten.

Back to school tomorrow! Two exams are awaiting me. I got like tones of things to do. …Happy moments are always short-lived.

February 14, 2012 ( Tuesday )

It’s Valentine’s Day today!

I finished two exams in the morning. I had classes until 4:30pm. After class, we went to Walmart to buy the ingredients for the Valentine’s Day dinner.

We had lettuce salad with Thousand Island dressing and shell pasta with chicken and shrimp. A task was assigned to everyone. I was responsible for peeling and deveining shrimp. We cooked together and had a lot of fun doing that! We talked, we laughed. What a wonderful night!

The dessert was the highlight of the dinner. The girls baked some chocolate cupcakes for all of us. It was delicious!

I wish all of you a Happy Valentines’s Day!

February 15, 2012 ( Wednesday )

I have only one class at night every Wednesday. I woke up early in this morning and went to the Huston Huffman Fitness Center for a one and a half hour gym. I love the lifestyle here in Oklahoma. Studying at OU is not as stressful as we do at CityU, and therefore I have more time to do exercises and develop my interests. Having a balanced life can be easily achieved here!

After the workout, I went to the Bizzell Memorial library for revision. I have to catch up with the teaching progress and finish all the assignments. I spent almost 6 hours studying in the library. The learning style in US is quite different from HK. Here, students are required to do a lot of readings by themselves. American students actively participate in every single class. They ask and answer questions enthusiastically. We should learn from them.

16/2/2012 (Thurs)

Tonight, I went to the event “Paradigm- Love, Sex& Marriage” held by the Baptist Student Union (BSU) at OU. BSU is a fellowship for college students. Since I am a Christian, I decided to join a Christina fellowship at OU. My friend, Frederick Wagner from Fencing Club, invited me to join the BSU. I am glad that I took the first step to join a community of American students. They are really kind to me. Whenever they have activities or events, they will send an invitation to me. They are my main group of friends. I have signed up for a mission trip in Colorado organized by BSU during spring break. I hope to develop a deeper relationship with brothers and sisters from BSU! They are true friends of mine and I love hanging out with them.

February 17, 2012 ( Friday )

At OU, we have pretty good sports programs. We call ourselves “Sooners”. Sooner is a unique nickname of OU synonymous with winning.

I watched a lacrosse game (Oklahoma vs. Taxes Tech.) tonight. A lot of sooners showed up to support the team. People shouted and cheered for OU team. The atmosphere was good.

After that, my host family Matt Maddox took me to pool and bowl. This was the first time I met him face to face. He’s very nice! He taught me how to bowl and pool with a good posture. We talked about our backgrounds, our families, our religion views, etc. I look forward to seeing Matt again in the coming weeks!