Yesterday was my 1 year anniversary working at this museum. I honestly can't believe I've lasted this long since I wanted to quit this job almost every week. Hahaha. Almost all of my friends that I'd made here left me during the past two months... :( I feel that this shows the government will never be able to attract youngsters that are passionate in this field because of all these bureaucracy and hierarchy restrictions at work. Everyone got frustrated and left. Right now, I'm glad my supervisor is super helpful, albeit too busy to really assign work for me, and is trying to settle my next move with another team since nobody here seems to know what to do with me, again. I feel like an orphan most of the time until someone realized that I exist and give me work to do. Really, they should know by now how this works since there's been 4 trainees thus far, with the fifth coming. I honestly wish the new trainee best of luck since I’ll be leaving in 6 months, at the latest. Of course, this means an update of my graduate school status.
I have submitted two out of three of my
graduate school applications. Since the third one is my safe school and the
deadline isn't till April, I won’t be handing that application unless I failed
to get into either of the first two to save me some moolah. Wish me luck!
Before I talk about Xmas and the New Year, let me make a quick recap of my Thanksgiving. I immensely enjoyed my Thanksgiving break and it was such a relaxing vacation for me. I love my home in the States and can't wait to move back there. I miss my own kitchen, which I managed to use once during the 5 days there. I baked these pumpkin doughnuts that everyone complemented and made me warm and fuzzy inside. I finally got to meet everyone in Pete's family and this time, we got to sleep in the same room at his house!!! Hahaha. His mom actually asked us whether we wanted to sleep in the same room as we arrived... didn't even know there's an option~ Saw my friends that I made since Nat Geo days and caught up with college roommate in this 8 days trip and also managed two tours at the Capitol and Library of Congress. Super eventful.
Took down our mega exhibition once I came back to HK. Then a guy that I met during my Nat Geo days from Shaanxi was here for the deinstallation as well, plus he remembered me! What comes around, goes around. Now everyone at the museum is impressed... well, ya... you should be. Hahaha. Anywho, said bye to the terracottas again (and maybe say hi to them in the future for 5 more times).
Looking forward to Xmas! Tree arrived at home, will be decorating this weekend, hopefully. Will probably be making gingerbread houses as well. Also watching BIG BANG's concert this Sat.!!! Super excited about seeing them. Next up will be Dev's Xmas dinner at their family's new place. Yay~
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