L.A.S.E.R.S, DiD, Mid-Terms, Halfway Point

Listening to Lupe Fiasco I am remembering how much I miss home.  I would bob my head up and down walking to and from Lot 1 everyday, that or Kanye's new album.  Also I've hardly been able to catch a song from Lupe's new album L.A.S.E.R.S. "Things I've Never Said" is a real good song and keeps with the traditional Lupe.  Anyway I've been surfing the Internet looking for a website to listen to it, hardly fruitful.  So I decided to blog.

We took a nice little field trip for my Entrepreneurship class last Thursday to Dialogues in the Dark.  At first I expected it to be a secret revealing, mushy, team building exercise, as if I needed to go through anymore of those.  To my surprise it ended up  being much better, and somewhat frustrating.  We were literally put into a pitch black building that simulated walks through a park, street, movie theater, and bar.  Our guide for the event was a blind man that lost his sight when he was about 27. You really couldn't see your hand in front of your face. 

The first was the park,  which was interesting because the longer it lasted the more sounds I could hear. We could feel the ground, trees, leaves, and water, strangely it all felt much different in the dark like you had to gather more information with just one of your senses and then had to process what it was.  I found a bench and guessed it could fit about four people, quickly people were swinging with their sticks trying to find the bench.  It turns out it was much too small for four people but I was determined not to look like a fool so I had about half a butt on there.  It ended up fitting four so I don't care. Then we walked down a hall into a busy street, with all sorts of sounds and stuff.  I accidentally crossed a busy road, but there weren't any cars so I wasn't concerned where I was wondering. I actually began to understand everything so don't take me for a complete failure.

By now I was getting frustrated, my eyes hurt, and I couldn't keep them closed because it felt like I lost some of my balance.  Thank goodness the next area was a movie theater, but they only played sound, music actually, but it was nice and I think I took a nap during that.  Lastly, we made it to the bar where we could buy some soft drinks and sit around and chat with our guide.  After getting to know him we had to re-adjust our eyes to the light, it was much harder than expected.  And it made me really tired.

Mid-Term projects are all the buzz nowadays in HKBU some are exams, some are group projects, and others are solo projects.  No matter the format, I'm not really interested in any of them.  It is extremely difficult to study here, I've at least printed out all the slides, I just have to read them over again ten or twelve more times.  It should go pretty well.

In about a week or so it will be exactly the halfway mark of the semester.  This has made me wonder what my reaction to my return to the States will be like.  I think it is going to take me a little bit to figure out I am back with my family and my girlfriend.  It'll be just like it was when I first got to Hong Kong, unbelievable.  I have met some incredibly cool people here.  I'm excited to get back home, if I could just get like 3 days to a week visit to Maumee I think I would be all set to make it to May 24 much easier. 

We've made it halfway though so at least we know we can make it the rest of the way, it makes me feel good I can say that.

But for now a healthy subscription of Lupe Fiasco and instant Udon noodles should do me just fine.