Restless

This whole being sick thing is getting old.I've spent the majority of the last two days in bed with piles of kleenex surrounding me. I was hoping that today when I woke up I would feel significantly better. However, I only feel slightly better (which is better than feeling the same or even worse). I probably have enough energy to venture out of my room to Fu Tai to buy some groceries, but there is a ferocious thunderstorm roaring outside my window right now. Although our rooms are small, we have huge windows so I can watch the lightening show. I love thunderstorms. There is something slightly calming about them. It gives me a perfectly good reason to curl up in bed with a book. I guess today will just be yet another day spent in bed and then hopefully tomorrow I will feel much better and can go into the city. Okay this thunderstorm is getting pretty intense. It looks like the lightening hitting right outside my window. I am so glad I am inside. The rain is falling so hard that I can barely see anything outside my window.

Three more days until classes begin. I decided to drop my Cantonese course. As of now, I am taking Hong Kong's Heritage, Mandarin Chinese, Understanding Drawing, History of China during the 20th Century, and Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Politics. I wanted to take a higher level of Chinese but that class is during the same time as my Gender class. I really want to take the Gender class so I guess I will have to stick with beginner Chinese. Oh well, it's not the end of the world. I can't decide if I should take 4 or 5 courses. It seems that the norm is to take 5. I am gonna see how my history class goes and if it seems incredibly boring, then I'll drop it and only take 4 classes.

All this lying around in bed is making me pretty homesick. I can't wait to feel better and for classes to start so I am busy again.