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Street Performer in Glasgow

St Andrews Cathedral

St Andrews Bay

Modernisation of Agricultural Techniques

Which is more important for a developing country to improve its economic? Last Friday, the question came up in the morning lesson.Some people thinks modernisation of agricultural techniques is more important that higher produtivity per worker.
So we were divided into two groups with differnt opinion and discussed it heatedly for half an hour. It was still unsettled, because of dinner time and every one quickly reached the agreement that craming with food is most important. :D

Street Performer in Edinburgh

Does every scotsman have a brave heart?

Inside of Crathes Castle

Overlook the garden from the Crathes Castle <<<--
Landscape on the way to Aberdeen <<<-

Aberdeen & its Market

25th August 2006- Make age an excuse?

Dear Diary,

My former boss said the student life I described was what he dreamed and if he were young, he would make same decision.

But youth has nothing to do with birthdays, only with alivedness of spirit, so even if his hair is gray, he can still be a boy.

Are people always making their age an excuse, are they not? :P

Jessie

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - 24th August 2006

Happy Birthday to MB- he's the most interesting, entertaining, companionable man in the world. @))}---->----->------

Shopping Day - 21st August 2006, Sunday

My roomate and I went shopping together yesterday afternoon. Cool! we caught the final clearance in Gap and Zara. I bought one jean, one jacket, one shirt, one sweater and one girdle. :)

I can't imagine any joy in life greater than standing in front of a mirror and buying any dress you choose with a discount price! That would rapidly undermine my fine stoical character which patiently built up within last one month in St. andrews.

17th August, 2006 Thuresday

Dear Diary,
Is it raining where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in a sudden rain , and I am using the last light to write to you.

I guess we are slowly creeping into autumn weather, at least from September onwards we can expect colder weather.
Fortunately, I bought a wool scottish rug at the first trip to Edinburgh. My tower is cold.

I've noticed that here, sun doesn't equal to warm . Sometimes, when I found it's a sunny day from my window and decided to dress less, and then I was wrong , it's cold. :P In contrast, some cloudy day are still warm. Seems the temperature depends on wind not sun.? Strange!

Yes, I 've basically decided to be going to study here for whole year , maybe here is not a good place for shopping, 25 minutues to Tesco, 50 minutes to Morrisons, but it is perfect for studying. So, it's so pity, i can't go to the Christian Fellowship. maybe I can find a day to go there sensing the atmosphere. or will it possible to set up a subsidiary in St. andrews?

Bonne nuit.

Jessie

Gorgeous bride-in Edinburgh high street

For Sale in Edinburgh

11st August 2006, Friday

Dear Diary,

It's Friday night now, about twelve o'clock, and I am supposed to be getting some beauty sleep, but I am studying a poem, so- no beauty sleep for me.

In Business English class this morning we had an unexpected reading lesson. This was it:

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they

Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;

A poet could not be but gay,

In such a jocund company!

I gazed-and gazed- but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought;

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills

And dances with the dafffodils.

That is a poem wrote by William Wordsworth about two hundred years ago. I don't know what it exactly means, but it's interesting to be leaded discovering its rhyming scheme and that sentence 1 & 3 have same rhyme and 2 & 4 have other same rhyme leaving the rest 2 sentences in the third same rhyme. It is not easy to write a poem, isn't it? I like the first sence most, as we have same words in Chinese ancient poem.

Au revoir,

Jessie

Man in Kilt - took in Edinburgh

10th August 2006, Thuresday

Dear Diary,

Did you ever hear of David Russell Aparts? I am staying there. Yes, it's a student accommodation. I have singles with an en suite bathroom... It's costly but restful to have a separated bathroom. :P

I meant to write you a nice, entertaining letter tonight, but I'm too sleepy.
Listen what I've experienced in these 2 days.

Yesterday, I joined the outdoor activities to Aberdeen orgnized by the university.
This was the sunniest day and the trees are the loveliest young green, but we spent 5 hours on the bus and only 2 hrs visiting castles, one is Drum castle, say the eldest castle in scotland with another castle named Crathes Castle. The latter has a huge garden. Obviously, the time was too short to enjoy the sightseeing.

Drum Castle

Crathes Castle

After came back from the outing, I had to continue writing my uncompeted 12000- word essay till midnight. And today, i studied whole day. I was so dazed when I listened to the afternoon lecture.

Oh, dear! There's 10 pm. I am sorry I cannot write more and tonight I must have a good sleep.

Bonne nuit.
Yours- in evident haste.
Jessie

St. Andrews = Golf

Sea View from my tower

University Building

8th August 2006, Tuesday

Dear Diary,
I've smoothly settled down at the university of St. Andrews.

The university is the biggest, most bewildering place - in the first week, I get lost whenever I leave my residence area. But now I'm feeling less muddled and find the university gets nicer and nicer. There is such a good place with larger sod ground and fresh green with azure sky.
Seems I bring a good weather to Scotland, in these 4 weeks, nearly everyday is sunny. After all, it should be seldom to get sun in UK. ?

My room is up in a tower. There are four other girls on the same loor of the tower, shaing one kitchen room. My room is on the Northeast corner with one big window and a seascape view. It's great!



I should write a letter to you eariler to get acquainted. But i've never thought the student life at here would be so busy. Today I've just finished two tests , one is testing group presentation skill ( i got 19, hehehe...) another is Corp. finance test.

I also have a 1200-words essay due Monday morning and a review in Mintzberg's 10 schools

I meant to come here having a big rest and refreshment...rebuilding. Now, the hope is waning. I need to get ready for the coming day.
Poor diary, you must be tired! I meant this to be a short little note to just get acquainted but when i started i seem to have a ready pen.

Goodbye, and have a good weekend.

Best wishes,
Jessie