Infrequent Nights

After an extended end of term break I'm back at the books again. This term I'm in a new sort of class called "News and Views." As opposed to a language type textbook we have a specially written textbook with accompanying news stories on CD. We listen to news the reports and try to figure out what they hell they're on about. It's challenging, but just the sort of practice I need. Furthermore it looks like my teacher is a talented one. She teaches at both Taida and Shida, and is one of the textbook's co-authors.

My Chinese is at a level where I can use it without much difficulty in most day to day situations. This is both a blessing and a curse. Because I can now talk around problem areas, and get by without TOO much difficulty I am less inclined to study. I need to keep telling myself that my Chinese sucks so that I'll be the sort of hard-working, obsessive student I need to be to really take it to the next level.

I've only got a few months left here in Taiwan and I want to use them as productively as possible so expect less in the way of posts here. I'll be hard at the books for the next few months.