Diana Lane had a dream in the film “Under the Tuscan Sun”, she’d like to live in a house where there is someone special, a wedding, a family who she could cook dinner for. The reality is that it seems to be much easier to bring your physical being to the spot rather than your mind-set. Of course there were times she wanted to give up on her dreams since she was not convinced that any of them would come true. It was lonely to live there and she kept missing her seemingly someone special. Luckily, she stayed and did not give up entirely. She started to build up bit by bit the connection in Tuscan, a baby from a friend, a wedding from a young couple and a big group of new friends she could cook dinner for….
I was thinking about this film the other day when I was sitting in my room alone. There were times I was like Diana Lane wondering what I was doing here and my dreams would ever come near or not. I then remembered why I wanted to move to Glasgow. Of course I realized it was easier to move my physical being here than my heart sometimes, however, I told myself somehow before I could realize it, there would be some life time experiences happened to me already. Overall, I enjoy the fact that I get the chance of seeing this world beyond Taiwan, or Asian roof but from the other side of the world.
I have been the minority both at my flat and the class. I live with three Chinese girls and go to class with fifteen Scottish local teachers. I have started my Education Management course last week already. I only have classes once or twice a week, which shall provide me with a good opportunity to arrange my spare time here, a break from work life. A classmate asked me why I wanted to come and take this course, didn’t my country have the same kind of course? Well, that is certainly a very understandable question since I picture most Scottish teachers did not have the experience of studying nor teaching with foreigners before.
I got to know an “Icelander” at a party last weekend. I feel like I am traveling around the world by meeting people from different nations already. Apparently the population in Iceland is similar to the population in the district where I live in Taipei. Wow, that was quite beyond my imagination. I strongly advised him not to marry a foreigner in order to reserve the pure blood since not many there now, ha!
Another good thing I get to enjoy much here is go to cinemas by student price. I have seen two films, one is “Before Sunset”; the other is “Love Me If You Dare”. Well, how should I put this, if you think you are also a hopelessly romantic like me, they are highly recommended.
I am watching the tree outside my room bathing under the sun, guess I do not have to go to Italy for this. How about you, what is the weather like there?
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