Winter Babies

Some birthday photos dedicated to our very own winter babies of SFU DDP. Hope you guys don't mind me posting these.

First up: 卡大卫 !
20 years old on Dec.4

The Present: Bottle Opener man

The Cake

The Cutting of the Cake

THE CAKED : thanks to Jenny
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ERYL : Dec 20th
Dinner at Radisson hotel's Orient Restaurant.

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JENNY'S 19th!

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EDWARD'S 20th

Back in Vancouver for a Moment in Time

Home sweet home, I'm back. Finally.

I have to say that it feels a bit weird, but for the most part, I'm happy. FOOD that I love to eat. Opening late Christmas presents are always a plus of course. But the thing I love the most is that we finally have a BREAK.

God, it feels like forever since the last time we've had a break. Yeah, we had "breaks" during the fall semester, but can you really call it a break when you have projects, homework, and tests to study/do during said break? I know I can't. Not only did we have to go to class on Christmas Day, but for New Years, yeah we had New Year's off, and the next 2 days off as well, but then we had to go to school on the Saturday and Sunday before it to make up for lost class time. Not cool at all. In fact, it was like no break that time. A 7-day school-week. Just how I wanted to end my year.

Chinese students are very hard working, and of course, it's to be expected in one of China's top universities. I was definitely not cut out for it. Going through that semester was at times, especially near the end, PAINFUL. Ironically, I'm still going to continue in this program for at least another semester. I hope to God that it's better than the last.

Yeah, the rantings of a stressed-out maniac.

yesterday's meeting

yesterday we had a meeting with two teachers from sfu & tomas was the only canadian student who attent it^_^good news to hear that we can earn such a lot of money in Canada,look forward to it~~
Jeff

Holiday greetings from Xie Laoshi

Hi!

Finally I can post something here. Thank you, Thomas!

I tried to post the newsletter (your pair-up reports) here, as I said in my message to you guys LONG LONG ago, but the PDF format cannot be accepted. So, I''ll wait till the technology can satisfy our needs.

Now it's Christmas and New Year season, I wish you all a peaceful holiday and a new year filled with happiness!

圣诞快乐，新年如意！

Xie Laoshi

Santa made me do it!

Well I 'upgraded' the blog and now things are a little bit screwy :-(
That was stupid... I blame Santa!

Summertime Soldier 徐筱渊

Here's two pictures from back in the hot days of summer when my program partner, along with all her classmates, endured three weeks of arduous training for long hours under hot summer sun - which made her one hot soldier!