Dear Friends and Family,

Dear Friends and Family,

Whew, what a week. I feel like I’ve been here for a year, not a week. Chinese is much harder than I imagined, and I’m glad I’m learning it the way I am, intensively and all day. I feel like if I just had an hour class a few times a week, I would forget it as fast as I learned it. However, I love it to death, and I am getting the hang of it. Like all languages, you have to get into the groove, and then from there its just more hard study and work. In some ways, Chinese in infinitely more complicated than English, in other ways it is wonderfully simple and makes perfect sense.
I have four hours of classes each day, Continue reading “Dear Friends and Family,”

Lydia at OSU

Dear Family and Friends,

Yesterday was probably the most exciting, scary, and unique day of my life. I, a newly minted 18-year-old, loaded up most of my worldly possessions in my very own car and drove three hours to a city I’ve only been to twice in my life to move into a house I have never seen and have rented with my own money, leased by a man I have never met, and occupied by two 23 year-old girls and a grey and white cat named Nora.
Fun, fun, fun!
I have moved in to my room, Continue reading “Lydia at OSU”

Leaving for college

Well, I’m leaving for college on Friday, at around 6 in the morning. I’m very busy wrapping up my affairs here and packing what seems like my whole room to go to college. I have rented an apartment within walking distance from Ohio State and will move in at 5 pm on Friday. Friday morning I will be busy getting things like: my Ohio State ID, my parking pass, and my REC membership, plus I’ll be making sure I’ve paid for everything I should have and a few other confusing, miscellaneous things. On my way up I’ll stop by and visit a friend, Ali Horton, who some of you may know. She is going to college at Otterbein, very close to Ohio State, and I am very excited that I’ll be so near to her for four whole years.
So much to do, so little brain power, and I’m dead tired. I shall continue the tale when the tale has continued past the point that It must for me to continue it. ;)>