It’s Saturday! We had no 9 a.m. lecture in the morning, but instead, we were allocated time to work on our intensive final OD code. Unfortunately, I fell asleep during the last hour of our work time as I don’t get satisfied amount of sleep everyday except on every Sunday, which is our sleep in day! Anyway, I was very productive during the first two hour, and I finished the basic framework of my code.
We had a precious 4 hours free time in the afternoon of the day, and I did singing practice with a group of people in the lounge. It was so enjoyable, since I haven’t been practicing singing with others since middle school. We decided to do A Million Dreams from The Greatest Showman, and I’m gonna sing the harmony in the middle of the song. It took me some time to get familiarized with the harmony part, which is only slightly different from the melody. It was challenging to stay in my notes when singing along with others. Thank you Riya for helping me practice and correcting my miserable singing. As an international student whose first language is not English and lives in a non-English environment, I sometimes feel disconnected with people when I don’t understand people’s cultural references or finding little shared topics, but music builds strong bonds between us, I felt engaged with the music as well as other people.
After the singing practice, we went to Franklyn street. This is my favorite time of the week, because I can finally get some Asian food from Target and boba stores. I love the boba place we’ve been visiting every week, as they serve authentic Taiwanese boba and Taiwanese pancake, popcorn chicken, pork rice… (starving in the computer lab while writing this post)!
Last but not least, happy birthday to Dr. Rosenthal! Thank you for your effort on preparing us the amazing buffet.
-Zihan
