Wushu started again ^.^ and I can't feel my legs!!! =P Crazy training, but at least I can feel improvement =) yay. Watching all those videos of the beijing team busting out helps a lot of course. Sets a new standard everytime I see them.. hehe.
Classes were kind of tough today. Our main class, Entering the Middle Way is run in 2 parts. The first half of class is Q&A time. However, the professor asks 1 or 2 students a day a question regarding philosophy from the text. Usually these questions are pretty tough. If the student doesn't answer well... well... embarassment I guess =P But it counts for a lot if you understand the class or if you don't. For the past month, I've been pretty lucky, as I haven't ever gotten called on... but today... while sitting around in the back.. all of a sudden the translator goes "Dan." I hardly even heard it, and it didn't really register in my head until the whole class turned around to look at me. hahaha =P atsukashii ne? So then there was like dead silence.. and I'm just looking very confused =P The professor was just taking his sweet time thinking up the question.. grrrrr... =P He finally asked me "Why should we not use ultimate reasoning to refute the relative?" Pretty nerve-wracking to be asked that on the spot in front of a classroom packed with people.. I answered some answer throwing in some examples that my mind somehow remembered in those clutch moments.. hehe. I didn't really think it was that satisfactory.. but somehow, the professor was nodding his head in agreement. Then the translator goes "but isn't that the view of the autonomy school? (this one philosophical school we're always trying to refute," but the professor piped in and said "no no, sometimes we have to say it like how he[me] said." muhahaha ^.^ Victorious!!! Second half of the class is where the professor lectures on verses from the text, that was the same thing.. usually going through examples and philosophical ideas that nobody really understands at first =P
Grammar class I also was called on.. but the damn teacher forgot my name!! and it's like.. a small language class! lol.. so he just kept pointing in my direction for a while and everyone was waiting to see what he was going to say.. then he was like "shoot I forgot your name..." This coming from the guy who's wife is good friends with my mom! pfffft =P Tibetan grammar is definitely a lot more fun to learn than English grammar. Currently we're going through the eight grammatical cases, nominative, objective, agentive, beneficial & purpose, originative, connective, locative and vocative. Yup, they have those in English and whatnot but it's mega-boring to sit through an English grammar class. hehe.
Nothing else much happened today, cept an announcement of a big party, mini October fest at the American club on Saturday ^_^ you can be sure I'm going! hah.
Time sure passes by fast, in 2 more weeks I'll be in Bodhgaya, India (place where the Buddha Sakyamuni became enlightened)! That trip seemed so far away! But now we're getting all our visas and tickets together and everything!! =P yupyup, fun times =D
posted by Dan @ 10/22/2002 11:35:00 AM
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