Halloween Party in PSU.

It's really a bad idea to go to a Halloween Party without costumed!
I suppose it will be better if I can dress up just as the others,
Cause during the whole party my friends without dressing and I
just felt be isolated by the others. We can not enjoy the kind of party
anymore, or…Maybe just because we are older now and we would
prefer going the tea or coffee hours in the Church…(so sad)

and the Halloween party…well.. It belongs to young guys.XDD

The cat lady and Frog man,I know them in the Group Discussion.

Cute lion and the "cheerleader"..冏

Christine(Left) and Peter pan and big babe.

other friends from varied countries.

Well..It's really a bad idea to go without costumed.

I looks like a freak.冏

Lots of people indeeded enjoyed their time there,

alas...yes I know...I get old now...XDD

Old lady can not bear the noise and the crazy dance.XD

But I think...

well,It's good to c lots of my friends show up with dressing.^^

After we left,Jessica said that she should join the "trick or treat"
activity with the kids in her host family.

Maybe next year I will prefer to knock at

someone's door and ask for candies than going

to the costuned party too ^^"..

Cross cultural conflict and adjustment.

The street.

okay, I wanna taking nothing about Cross cultural conflict and
adjustment but my "SUPER FATIGUED" spirits recnetly.

yeah, I read a artical about culture shock or something like that,
and were attacted by the diagram:

I suppose I really experience both elation and depression
in a very short period...

You know, as the first day I arrived,there is a high level
of interest and motivavtion..the beautiful street,
the wonderful park and campus,I wanted to become familiar
with them as well as the the new city then.

However, well....Something do influence my emotions in
a negative way now,I can not exactly point out what it is
but I feel sad, I feel tired, I feel hungry,I feel spleepy all the time....
Well,is it a kind of culture shock?
Or just out of my personal problem, I have no idea yet.



And the article also offer some typical symptoms of
having problems adjusting to the new culture,
such as "Homesickness"," inablility to work well",
"too much eating, drinking, or sleeping",
"Lack of ability to deal with even small problems"..

Intersting.

I don't oversleep cause without enough time but
I do eat a lot, drink(?) a lot, get fat and feel badly.Well,
the article also point out the best way to overwhelmed
the problem is"Develop social relationships",
but develop social relationships takes times,
and I have no time. I need time to study,
I need time to do my homework,I need time to
prepare TOEFL and GRE, I need time to sleep and
I need time to relax,yes what I mean is
I need leisure time to enjoy myself.



Still I need time to go out and develop social relationships
with people from all over the world and tired out then.



Maybe it's really the time to adjust my footstep
to fit in with the new life.

JOYCE慶生！單身女子PARTY！

Joyce的生日蛋糕。

(Joyce許願的片段因為檔案太大被我拿掉了，
需要的人找我燒。)

那天吃Lucky Cookies裡面的紙條。

晚上跑完宿鬼鬼屋以後，
Joyce忽然幽幽的說：「今天是我生日」，
人在異地怎麼可以過生日過這麼辛酸呢？
當然是要好好慶生一下啊！

本來在星巴克坐了一下發現沒有賣蛋糕，
一行人只好轉移陣地。
幾個從台灣來的女生還有日本朋友YUKI在safeway買了蛋糕和蠟燭，
跑到Becky的公寓去唱生日快樂歌。
Jessica:「ya! We are all single!It's a single lady's party.」

感謝Becky提供的美味零食。

因為大家都沒意見所以Becky選了蛋塔蛋糕，

說真的不錯吃。手忙腳亂點蠟燭，

不過等許完願好像也熄滅的差不多了。XDD

可愛的壽星Joyce！

這張照片有點抱歉把Becky變成背景了。冏

附上好吃的蛋塔特寫。

希望因為情傷跑出國的Joyce生日許的願望成真。^_^

Happy Birthday！一起在Portland度過開心的每一天吧！

Scary Movie!!Halloweed activity in Montgomery.

弄得黑白比較有氣氛一點。(中間的是我)

今天一早起來就發現宿舍在大張旗鼓的布置，

觀望了一下發現還滿有趣的，

到了下午打電話邀請Jessica還有Becky一起來玩。

這種古老的宿舍辦這種活動好像特別有氣氛。XDD

我特別把照片都弄黑白了，

半夜po網誌看起來還真有點恐怖。

後院裝了一堆墓碑。

其實，這宿舍有些地方，

不用布置就很恐怖了。= ="



活動的內容大致就是「鬼屋」啦，

他們把整棟宿舍弄成一個大鬼屋，然後在很多小點安排了演出那樣，

挺有創意的。但最可怕的不是那些，

最可怕的是我和一票喜歡尖叫的朋友一起走。冏

結果沿路尖叫出來喉嚨還真痛。

他會帶著你從Lobby走到四樓，

走到地下室，再從Backyard繞出去。

Joyce，Becky還有YUKI。

那個Spot是在講七夜怪譚的東西，

最後當然是有人從床墊後面跑出來嚇妳。XDD

大法師的橋段。

這是電鋸殺人狂吧？

弄成黑白可能不清楚，不過，

其實很多「鬼」都忍不住在偷笑。XDD

辛苦的僵屍工作人員。

最後到後院還有殺人狂追出來說。

掛在那裡的工作人員還真辛苦，今天晚上很冷的說。

(不過晃來晃去尖叫超有氣氛的。)

有段題外話，跑完這個活動之後一群人去慶祝Joyce的生日，

等我回來居然看到那位殺人狂拿著道具一動不動的站在我房間門口。冏

那時已經滿晚了，他又不說話歪著頭看起來亂恐怖一把的。

結果後來去洗澡又被藏在浴室裡的另外一個殺人狂嚇到。

(根本就是存心的咩。)

Portland Farmers market.

假日農夫市場

早上被噪音吵起來才發現今天天氣超級好，

Farmers market應該很熱鬧才是。

因為晚上有宿舍辦的Party大概逃不過，

所以上午得先唸書。但是，咳，

去晃一圈應該花不了多少時間，就先走吧。

像是一個小小的festival，天空很藍溫度微涼，

陽光漂亮到我很樂意稍微曝曬一下。

炒香菇和其他食物的氣味飄散在空氣中，現場有小小的音樂，

快樂的人朝，和很多很多所謂"organic"的食物。

另外看到自己每天走來走去上課的校園變成完全不同的樣子，

感覺還滿特別的。

兔子香菇濃湯的材料？

大概都有提供試吃，可是，吃了之後都不想買。起司味道太重，

巧克力沒香味，薰衣草果醬全是香水口感，

如果他沒提供試吃的話我應該會想買來試試看才對。冏

新鮮花朵，我大概一輩子都不會去買的東西。

最近到處都在刻南瓜，

萬聖節對南瓜來說應該很哀傷。

其實我發覺得南瓜刻成的臉譜，

還真有點恐怖。

賣酒和蜂蜜的店。

想買麵包，可是我最近在戒澱粉所以還是算了。

那些「果醬」全是辣的。XDDD

應該是cook用的說。

很多很多蔬菜店家，

其實價錢都不很貴，離宿舍又近，

如果我知道怎麼處理蔬菜的話應該會常買才是。

最後只帶回兩隻洋蔥。

另外和這個可愛的Lady買了一罐蜂蜜。

(是誰和我說Oregon蜂蜜很好吃的啦，超普通好盃。冏)

蜂蜜罐子標籤用水沖一下居然全掉了。

洋蔥切到一半才發現忘記拍，

和safeway買的沒什麼不同。


果然逛一次就不會想逛了，ALice妳說的對。XDD

下禮拜再去買洋蔥和其他蔬菜好了，

其實這裡也比safeway近很多。