I love spring

As expected, the TB skin test showed up positive and now I have to go for a blood test! AH AH AH AH AH!!!! Apparently its very common for international students to show up positive. Does that mean we all have TB infection or there's just something different in our blood?? But anyway I talked to my supervisor and she says its ok I can still go for the orientation on Thursday but I can't interact with clients until my TB test clears.

But I'm having fun these days, no school, just chilling out. I'm tutoring a Korean guy in English twice a week, and talking to him is pretty interesting. He was in Singapore quite a few times on business when he used to work in ExxonMobil and we swapped horror stories about how ***awful Singaporean English is. Haha. I get compliments on my American English a lot.. the Americans all think I grew up in the US. All thanks to the wonderful American English Accent book+CDs that I got off Amazon for $30!! Its like the equivalent of getting 50 hours of accent modification therapy, but for 1/100th the price. Just in case any of you guys are interested!

Tonight me and roomie are having friends over for dinner. I just bought a new rice cooker and it comes with free recipes inside - we are going to make 水饺! And Japanese curry and lemon chicken. Its Jamie's last day in West Lafayette so I guess its a celebration/farewell party.

And then tomorrow I'd get to play with my kid Av from preschool last semester! Yay! I miss him a lot and I'm sure he's improved quite a bit since the last time I saw him. Apparently he's been spending the last few weeks at his grandparents' farm riding tractors and loving every minute of it. LOL.

Finally, my clinic supervisor very nicely agreed to write me a recommendation letter for the ASHA (American Speech and Hearing Association) minority leadership program in November. Yep after sitting on it for several weeks/months I finally decided to apply. So I'd have to spend the next 2 days writing up a nice application essay. I guess thats the only "work" I'd be doing this week! Regardless of whether I get in the program or not, I plan to attend the ASHA conference this year and I'm looking forward to it already! Hanging out with half the SLPs and audiologists in America for 3 whole days! Fun times. :))