100% and some part time programming

A hundred

The last few weeks have seemed uneventful, even if that might not particularly be the case. I have gotten into a bit of a routine making time pass very quickly.

I remeber back when we only were here on vacation. A month was such a long time, managed to see so much and do so extremely much. Now a month flies by and I barely know what I’ve done or what I have to show for it. Upon restrospection there is a lot happening, or so at least my growing pile of school related papers would say.

I’m doing good in school. Though I can’t honestly say I always get 100% on all the tests I do keep a high standard. Not that it’s particularly hard right now though. There are a few disurbances in class that have decreased my motivation some. There are three big things.

1. There is a person in class who I swear to god does not shower or wash their clothes. The person smells of so much sweat that our entire classroom smells like a gym-locker every day. I can not express my frustration about this fact as I’m quite sensitive to that sort of sweat stench.
2. There are some people in our class that for some reason scream at the top of their lungs when we’re supposed to repeat after the teacher. Making it impossible to hear either yourself or the other people. They’re usually not correct either so them screaming the wrong answer makes everything so much more annoying. On top of this screaming about 90% of the chinese people in our class can not speak at all. They speak really quietly and mumble imcomprehensibly when asked something or told to say something. They also try to say everything as absolutely fast as they possibly can, so they loose every sort of intonation in their speach, making everything one big melted-together, incorrect, slur.
3. About half the class are chinese, so around 7-8 people. Of these 7 people about 2-3 are really immature and do not give a flying fuck about what the teacher is saying or doing. The policy of the school seems to be that no one is supposed to get a “bad grade”. No one is supposed to be “left behind” or anything like that. This results in the teacher adjusting the speed of the class to the worst students. If everyone was serious-minded and actually studied I wouldn’t mind this. But when there are people not giving a crap at all, this means we might spend weeks on something completely irrelevantly easy and not moving forward at all until those unserious people feel like listening for 10 minutes. I might sound negative towards chinese people but I’m not really, it’s just the case with my class. I know one chinese person, “Shizuka-san”, that is very serious and studies very hard and is beyond my level of Japanese long ago.

As a result of school slowing down (and them not really expecting us to study at home anymore) I have aquired a lot of free time. I had a choice to make with this free time, spend it studying at home and then inevitabely be bored out of my scull 4 hours a day during class or spend it on some other hobby. I was contacted by a very nice gentleman about some work a while back and we have come to an agreement that I will work part-time a bit for him.

So until new-year I will be working on a quite exciting project for RightRental.com. It is (partly) my job to make sure that every available rental apartment in the world is on that site. It’s exciting work because it’s a fun problem and because I get to work in a programming language I haven’t worked in before (Clojure). It’s fun to learn new things.

I’m not really working my ass of right now, I’m mostly in the studying and research phase to try to figure out the best solution, then I don’t think it will take too much time to actually implement it.

I guess you could say “To celebrate”, Emma and I bought some new entertainment for our apartment.

Call of Duty: Black Ops on Xbox

We both really like the Call of Duty game franchise, but of course I think FPS’es are ment to be played on a console, so we decided to buy this. I think it’s a good investment.

To sum it up; school is going good if a bit slow right now and I’m doing some fun stuff on the side.