My Digital World

It is awesome how busy my life is in the past two days. At Tuesday, I go to Rotterdam and Delft. I have two appoitments. The first appointment is with an international student, Yan. She is interested in learning Dutch and I offer to teach her. At some moments, it reminds me the time when I came to Holland and where I got lot of tuition from teachers and a girl that I now know for 18 years already!!! It is incredible how fast time fly. Well, now it is my turn to bring my skill over to people. When I was in Delft I immediately go to the canteen to look for Yan. But she was not there and I saw a friend and we get into talk. Then Yan comes along and I start with my tuition.

There are several things that non-Dutch people, especially the Chinese people, encounter. It is the pronounciation of some letters. For instance, the letter "g" and "h". When I was in Singapore, my friend Adrian told me that "g" sounds very strong and he heared lots of "g" sounds. Yan finds it very difficult to pronounce it correctly. I cannot hear the difference in "g" and "h" of Adrian and Yan. But overall, I think Yan is a very fast learner. She is very good for the first time and hopefully she will pick up some Dutch after my tuition.

After the tuition, I rush to sport centre where I have another appointment with two students of my own group. Yan belongs to the group of Bou (the friend I usually ge along with when I am in Rotterdam). I keep the two students waiting for 5 minutes which I think I am very bad. By the way, we wish to play basketball, but the indoor field is just painted for some hours and we are not allowed to play. So we go to play beachvolley. We miss some people and I call my friend Bou to join. After playing for 15 minutes I decide to check for the free places to play basketball. I finally find one hall free and I ask for the permission to play. Fortunately they are nice this time and I am allowed to use the hall. So we play basketball till the people who play basketball every Tuesday are coming. They are semi-professional players and we are asked to train with them. It was very nice and I hope that my two students enjoy yesterday too.

After playing sport, I rush to Rotterdam to plan my week and doing some preparation. At Sunday night before I go to sleep and when I open my mailbox for checking e-mails, the project manager sends me an e-mail. His name is Hans and he invites me to join him and other managers and director of the project for having a dinner together and talking about the project. However, it is not necessary to be present. But I try to make time for them and I write that in the mail. And today, Hans sends me an e-mail to cancel the invitation. I am very glad to receive that e-mail. I am really too busy for catching up with them. I am in the nuclear institute of Delft (and that also holds for the Netherlands) for doing my course "radiological physics safety" whole day. After completing this course, I will receive a diploma which I am very proud of: I have some meaningfull in my pocket. There are two 'bad' sides: 1. I have to pay 100euro for the tuition fee and 2. it takes me two whole days a week.
I am told that the tuition fee is much and much higher if you are graduated nor you are sent from your company. I don't know if this true: the fee is about 15 000euro!!!
The second is unexpected. I thought that it is only once a week.

I am running out of time now. Yesterday (in the very little space in time I left) I put the rest of the code in MATLAB. Like last week, I don't have time for doing my pacemaker project seriously. I plan to do that tomorrow morning after having lecture which ends at 10:45h. I have an appointment with my professor tomorrow afternoon and there are lots of work to do......