La Corrida

Oh my goodness, the radio is playing Francis Cabrel’s “La Corrida”. This song had accompanied me for many good times and bad ones in Europe. I love Francis Cabrel’s music. One time I even heard someone playing his songs while getting out of my dorm in Oslo. The time just froze for like 10 minutes…

Yeah, I went to my French class this morning. Although it is supposed to be an advanced course, most people still need to work on their conversational skills a lot. To me, they should be in the basic-level class. I wonder whether one really needs to be in a francophone environment to master French. I didn’t speak too much but next week it is going to be different because the reason I go to this class is practice speaking… I don’t care whether others will think I’m showing off; I am not going to waste my money. Regardless of other classmates’ level, I enjoyed the class. I understood 100% the content and the teacher was amusing too.

Now that’s a sort of review for my French; next will be German in September. I am thinking to have a one-on-one class after I have taken one term. It will be more expensive but still a lot of cheaper than taking a course at a university back in the States. I will continue taking German until I feel I’m good enough to carry a decent conversation. Then, it will be Spanish and Italian. I did study those two languages myself in the past. I just need a teacher to practice with and correct my mistakes. Sounds daunting, right? But for a language-person, this is absolutely nothing at all…

Chad suddenly announced ending its diplomatic tie with Taiwan and the whole thing basically humiliated our PM. Oh well, do I care? To be honest, I think Taiwan doesn’t need to waste any time and money on those countries! What for? They are not going to help us much; on the contrary, we are the ones who stretch out hands to assist those Third World countries.

No matter what the government tries to do in terms of foreign affairs, Grand China will do its best to intervene and sabotage our position in the international community. My personal opinion is we should spend more time ameliorate our education, economy, and other societal issues. There are tons of poor children, aboriginal families, the sick, who are in need more desperately than those so-called diplomatic-tied countries.

The entire expanding-foreign-tie strategy is a joke to me. Unless, China is willing to give up on Taiwan and proclaim to the whole world that they recognize Taiwan as an independent sovereignty, otherwise no matter what we do will be a completely flop! So, wake up those government officials! Don’t waste my tax money any more!