Dear all, I’ve finished the report to the exchange life, mainly for some obligations of the school. Anyway, I uploaded all pages here in PNG format, don’t be curious if you seen your face on the Internet someday. By the way, I am so proud of my typology skill ;) 下面的圖片是我繳交的生活報告書，屬於政大交換學生應盡的義務之一，下面貼的是PNG格式，如果在網路上找到你的臉不要太驚訝 ;)
I’m talking about my academic life here,
it is quite strange that I have to admit I didn’t too much effort in studying,
but at least I didn’t skip any courses so far!
I am taking 4 courses this semester, 2 for the whole semester, 2 for half.
Business to business marketing and 2000 years of European history are the two courses
began in Sep and last until Dec,
Service operation management and European business system are half-semester,
so that the contact time will be 6 weeks separately.
If you fellow my facebook status, you’ll notice that I am struggling with 2000 years of European history, I took this course is that I thought I would be fun to study European history in Europe! But it turns out to be translation of historical terms and endless essay.
I am going to do a presentation next week so I am kicking my ass to focus on
Feudalism in medieval Europe and try to figure out the legislation and jurisdiction at that time. Optimistically thinking, I regard this task as introducing complecated products to clients and try to improve my skill of communication, which is applicable in the future. Also, students are required to hand in one page summary of obligatory essay each week. Since the loading are quite thick but the professoer is sophisticated and talktive, we like him a lot.
B2B marketing is the other course that I am kind of interested in and it has a trong connection with my thesis. I will introduce this session afterwards.
Last but not least course during the first period is Service operation management. The reason why I took this course is that I don’t have other options to choose and accroding to the syllabus, this one seemed interesting and useful if I decided to attend service industry. But it turns our to be … hmm … not that interested because of the lecturer is good at researching especially using formulas to figure out the best way of operation, instead of teaching. He tried to draw our attention by playing funnt videos but it seems empty and most of the time we don’t get his point in the vid.
I did a presentation for the course, Superstore, our case company and we were discussing about the correlationship between operation and service quality, and mentioned internal marketing and so on. I think the case it self is not that hard and our team, Amelie, Alison and I try to use the simplest way to solve the questions. I think it is quite interesting to discuss with others things we’re not familiar with.
Benjamin is his name, and he’s my buddy in EMLyon.
Curly and blonde haired sophomore student with french personality,
he’s just went back to school from Shanghai,
so can speak a little bit of mandarin.
Inccidentally, Joey and I share Benjamin as our buddy,
so we went to the other bar and have a little chat with each other.
Along with his friend, Leo from Paris.
We talked about things in Taiwan, in Lyon and even in Shanghai,
then Shakozy, Worldcup and weirdo bar in Lyon.
He’s the one who’s working on the guide book of Lyon,
with luck, he’d tasted so many great bouchon(*restaurants) in Lyon
free of charge!
It was a great night to talk, although it rains alot.
I think we’ll invite Benjamin to join our moon fest party, why not?
We had the very first class this afternoon,
it was corporate valuation, which i really suck at,
but i wanna try it again so i take this course and try to figure out
what the heck is WACC, CAPM or EVA or some stupid abbreciation like that.
The course will last for 6 weeks so the 1st week is part of the lecture,
we discussed about FCFF which means free cash flow for firm, and
i could follow the tempo of the lecturer ‘cause lakcing of finance terms and
not similiar to that subject.
In other words, i had a hard time during the course, Tobi my friend tried to help me
but i know that i have to depend on my own.
At the end of the course, we have to work out to different groups
in order to make final presentation for the 5th week.
Tobi and Mathias had already worked out for their group so I need to make one,
I asked one guy at the class room and became the first memeber of our group,
then 2 other Chinese guys, i mean people comes from mainland China came to us and
asked that if they could join our group.
We said yes and started to introduce each other then.
The guy I asked before was named Federico from Turin, Italy,
and he asked us about where we came from,
the 2 chinese guys said that they are from China,
and I said that I am from Taiwan, then one of them continued “is part of China”
I was like WHAT THE HECK with this kind of situation?
I replied “Whatever” because I didn’t want to fight with anyone in the “group”
in this issue, it’s kinda of sensitive and even I won the fight,
what will happen? Nothing!
I wondered the guys are nice yet a little bit childish,
they might think it’s a glorious success of winning the oral compeition.
But go fxxk yourself with your winning face, it doesn’t make any sense that you bring about this issue, OK?
Maybe I was pissed off and offended by the guy from China,
but it’s OK if that made him happier or make our group more efficient.
THAT’S FINE WITH ME.
OK, turn the thing into the bright side,
Alison told me that she’ totally fine now and felt energetic with things happend here,
which is fine for me because she always remind me of home,
Taiwan and boyfriend or girl friend stuff.
It’s good to see her smiling face.
So I cooked for them, the mushroom and tomato chicken, fried vegetables and soy sause egg.
yet my fav part is the rice!
We had the traditional Taiwanese dinner here, nice!
