Nothing is
as indicative of how long I haven’t updated this blog as the fact that I wrote
my last blog entry on a sunny day with an outside temperature of around 25°C,
whereas right now, it’s foggy and rainy outside, and it’s so cold that
the canteen is now being heated. Which is a small miracle – the classrooms are
not, and aren’t going to be, either. But at least there is now more that keeps us all all warm during dinner than just the soup.
Anyway, I
haven’t updated in over a month, and in fact, this isn’t going to be a long
entry, either, but rather a short update on how I’ve been and why nobody has
heard from me since mid-October. So here goes:
In case
anyone was wondering (or worried): I’m fine. I’ve been busy, but I’m happy and healthy.
My absence
isn’t due to bad health, or any serious problem. Rather the opposite is the
case; I haven’t been writing simply because absolutely nothing exciting has
happened in my life since my trip to Xi’an in the beginning of October.
Ever since
I’ve returned to Shanghai, I’ve had at least one weekend lecture per week (and
long lectures on both Saturday and Sunday on two separate occasions). I
have also written all of my exams, spent all of my evenings in the lab for an
entire week and given 7 presentations.
In between
all of that, there might have been enough time to write a blog entry, but given
how busy university kept me, I honestly wouldn’t have known what to write
about.
The good
news is that that’s about to change. Whereas many of my classmates are now
getting ready for all of their exams in December and early January, I wrote my
last exam of the semester on Friday, and as of this week, there won’t be any
more weekend lectures for me either. Of course there are still some
presentations (and the like) to go, but with my reduced workload, I might actually
have the opportunity to experience things that are worth writing about.
Here’s to
more frequent updates in the future – I hope to see all of you this Sunday.
Lots of love to you all; and may you all be as happy and healthy as I am.
