I'm thoroughly enjoying my course so far and I feel like I'm in my element studying business. The course is usually one and a half years but if you do two specialisations it will be two years. And guess what, I think I want to do two specialisations, because I want to study Business Strategy, but I can't study that on it's own because I need to so something useful like accounting, HR, or marketing... On the faculty website it says 80% of jobs are found through networking, and well I don't know anyone in the business world which might be a problem. But I'm determined to work for Qantas! Last night's lecture was on competition and game theory. I have decided I have a love-hate relationship with economics: one the one hand, it's common sense and logic, so it's easy, but on the other hand, why study common sense? But anyway I love talking about how airlines make can make silent agreements without technically colluding and... etc etc. As for networking, I can imagine turning up to functions and introducing myself to hot businessmen, my only selling point being that I can speak a bit of Mandarin... Speaking of languages, Alesandro thinks I'm a secret agent and that I secretly know Italian, because I guessed how to say 'facile' and 'fromage' based on my knowledge of French. Speaking of Marissa, she doesn't think Ale (for short) is that cute, and I guess she's right, but we concluded that she goes for guys that do martial arts, and I go for guys who are foreign and exotic. We had pizza last night. Yummm. Tim's Taiwanese friends came over and Darren, the gay guy from Taipei, spoke to me in Chinese, which I really appreciate, because usually blah blah blah they just think you can't understand anything. Speaking of Chinese, I had class on Monday, and the teacher is a bit strange, she doesn't listen to you when you speak to her in Chinese, and trust me, it's not the accent, the Taiwanese understood me fine... she kinds of talks over you and it's very rude and it's discouraging. Oh well, what was I expecting? I've had two great Chinese teachers, out of about nine that I've had over the past three fours years. Mr Keenan, and ONE teacher at Tunghai. Even she followed the generic lesson plan but she was a nice person.  ¶ 09:08