Jack Long

1/10/2019

First and foremost, I wish every reader happy new year. The 2018 is not easy for everyone. The 2019 is a new start, our good work will be continue. I hope you did some exercise and felt great!

Thank you James to become my first subscriber.

I don’t want to mention, but I hope my reader and their families doesn’t affected by government shutdown in US.

For me, the second week of this winter break has passed. It is from December 31st to the January 6th.

At night of December 31st, I went to Berkeley with my families and their friends. We enjoyed many great foods, like rice, beef, sausage string, vegetable… After eating, we played Mario tennis, listened k-pop music together. At 11:30 pm, we started to go to Berkeley Marina. We counted down 10 to 1 with all people, and welcome the new year to come! The firework at San Francisco was launched. We enjoyed a good view without crowded people. It was amazing that they have fireworks every year. At the road brother drove me home, his friend told me a good website: sf.funcheap.com/ She said they have many cheap events, and you should take part in some as a first year student. It will be more busy later.

I went to my classmate’s house at January 4th. He lives not far from SF State. I walked around 20 minutes. The block they live is very quiet and safe. His mother shows me they rent a room to a NWU student. His mother cooked a great meal for three of us. The beef soup, mushroom pork, and vegetable. The grocerys’ quality were very good. We also bought chicken at Ming Kee, a Canton restaurant at Ocean. After meal, we watched Breaking news: Mr.Trump and shutdown government report at CNN. His mom is learning English with him. We also talked about next semester’s classes. More challenge will come.

Now I will mention some flag refer to last blog, to see if I did them.

I started to go to gym from start of 2019. I found it relax after people did some exercise. I tried my best to do exercise everyday, but it is not easy… a person can’t keep balance if he or she did not eating not regular, lack of exercise or sleep not well.

I finished my first essay(the post), and read first 40 pages of novel, in 5 days… How about the speed when you read novel? In addition, I didn’t did many math. It became hard about binomial theorem and limit. I also felt not familiar with trig functions. I can’t be wasting time like that.

I also went to the bank at December 31st. The banker destroyed my card and resend me a new debit card. I found life became hard without card. I cannot do the laundry, or purchase online.

When I planned to sleep yesterday, I called by classmate. He invited me to a party at down stair. He kind of drunk, because he danced a lot.
We listened a lot of India pop music. After I went back, I found out I should joined more events, and know more people. I can change myself, if I try and try again.

Besides that, my friend at SU back to Shanghai and ask me to ship the package international. I printed label online at UPS and think it will be convenience. However, something happen that I never thought about. At first, I calling for the pick up, but they not came and no call. I went to the UPS store, but they told me I should went to South SF center to deal with shipping. When I had arrived, they said they don’t have box. I had to go to FedEx to purchase a box. I finished all these at December 24th. However, at January 4th, tracking still showed “warehouse scan”. They didn’t made a call to told me that it can’t pass the custom. At last, the bank account shows UPS charged 423 dollars for shipment. But the website and service said it is 167 dollars.

Jack Long

1/3/2019

Jack Long, a first year student of San Francisco State University, go through one week of his first winter break at college. He has experienced many new things since it is the first winter break he lives at another country outside China.

First day of this week, which is December 22th, was a traditional “Jie Qi” of China. It also can said as a festival. It called “Dong Zhi”. In China, basically it is the coldest time of the year.  That day, I had finished my last final exam of 2018 fall semester. Math really makes me thinking a lot. At evening, I was invited by friend to the apartment. I ate won ton with her and my roommate. Eating won ton is a custom of Dong Zhi. Another one custom is cooking hot pot. She also talked about a custom to eat won ton before someone left to a place, like she will go to China next morning. But when our friends come back, we should eat noodles.

At the Christmas, December 25th, I went to my families’ apartment. I had dinner with them and their two friends. I had eaten many great foods, like pasta, ham, sweet potato, mushroom… Unluckily, I forgot to take photo. After dinner, we went to the top floor. We watched night view of City Hall. The Christmas color was really cool. The apartment has a balcony and a meeting room. We played Jenga and Awkward story teller at meeting room.

One day after the Christmas, I went to Muir Woods with families. We drove across the Golden Gate Bridge and went on California 1 highway. We felt the air is so fresh after we went off the bus. I was really impressed by the redwoods. They are so high and straight, like it is going to touch sky. And they are dense as a forest. Some trees look like cannot hug by three people. It is a great travel place for everyone.

After that, I have stayed in dorm, and went to some grocery stores, Stonestown, Nordstrom… I also exercise at stadium because the gym has closed. I try to studied, but no so much work had finished.

At the after days, I wish to do these following things.

At first, I should go to band to resolve the card issue, and I can book my airline to San Diego, and help my friend at another city to buy on ebay.

I should keep do some exercise everyday, either sunny or raining. I need pay the tuition and talk to housing office(meal plan), after January 1st.

I will do some study: 1.reading a novel and write a critique(extra credit). 2. An essay once a week. 3. Math preview and review. Maybe it will change…

I could form a habit of sleep regular, because I may not be healthy and stay focus if I sleep late.

I think that’s all until 12/30/2018.

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton