August 18-24

Tomorrow, our home internet will be activated! I hope the speed will be faster. A few days ago, we discovered that our neighbor’s WiFi was not password-protected, so we borrowed their wireless network to surf the internet for a while. The speed was very slow, and it felt like we were back in the dial-up era. I even tried to bridge our neighbor’s WiFi to our wireless router, but it didn’t work. And from yesterday on, the network was completely inaccessible. So, today I had to come to school to use the internet.

After my last blog post, our home suddenly lost power, and later we found out that we had been using the previous owner’s electricity. The power company might cut it off at any time. As a result, we had a tragic experience - we spent two days without electricity. On the first night, we played Three Kingdoms Kill using flashlights and candles, and I trained two new players.

The keyboard I ordered from Newegg arrived, and the desk I ordered from Amazon finally changed its status to “shipped” today. There’s also a monitor on the way - I hope I can set up my workstation soon.

The day before yesterday, I visited a classmate’s home nearby, and we played Three Kingdoms Kill. I used Guo Jia and played very aggressively. I sat below the lord, and when the lord played the “South Barbarian” card, I chose not to kill and instead drew cards, getting two “kill” cards. Then, I drew the “False Accusation” card and got two more “kill” cards. Later, the “Five Grains” card was played, and I had eight “kill” cards, leaving the lord with only one health point.

Yesterday was the orientation, and I found that there are many Chinese, Indian, Korean, and Japanese people at UB. The campus tour was led by an Indian student, and his Indian English was very hard to listen to. The fitness center at UB is great, especially the swimming pool, gym, and basketball court - the facilities are excellent.

These days, I’ve started cooking for myself. At first, I didn’t know how to use the oven, and I triggered the alarm multiple times. Each time, one person had to fan the alarm with a piece of paper while the other continued cooking… It was embarrassing. Later, our landlord moved the alarm to a place farther away from the kitchen, which made things better.

Since the first day I saw the rabbit, it hasn’t appeared in our backyard for a long time. Last night, I finally saw it again on the lawn in front of our house. Unfortunately, I still couldn’t catch it.

Since I’m still using the school’s internet and didn’t bring my camera, I’ll upload the photos later.