keep believing

There are villages, in which men fish and women weave cloth, and villages, in which women fish and men weave; in both cases the work done by men is more highly evaluated…
When men cook, cooking is considered an important task, when women cook, it is simply housework.
- Margaret Mead, from my Human Resources Management lecture notes

And how well it is reflected in our daily life here. The guys are actually the ones who bother to take the time and effort to cook nice nice, while the girls prefer simpler cooking, enough just to get us full and satisfied. And their food is good!

“next time i hire u to become my toilet cleaner la”

“u knw
i tink i am so sweet
tat ants come to visit me”

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So sweet and definitely didn’t see them coming!

In the past few months, I had my share of getting all excited living in a new place as well as being emo and homesick, wanting to go back so badly, and now I’m just enjoying each moment that comes along. The mugging, cooking and meal times together, jogging by the lake, chocolates and chips shopping, taking pictures like a tourist, an almost impromptu last minute “farewell” dinner we had last night, and all kinds of randomness that we do, all in celebration of our last month staying here.. Though I’m still looking forward to travelling, as well as going back and meeting the familiar faces in the familiar places, and despite three oral exams I’m having in the next two weeks, I guess I can wait, and I’m having fun :)