when do I get my adult certificate?
We can all read the news and I’m more grateful than ever that I live the life that I do. Spendings Report: $1944 Confession time: I have hired an ayi (housekeeper) who comes around twice a week; once to meal-prep, and once for general cleaning. Roughly two hours each time and in a month it’s…
Every penny spent was worth it. September has been such a great and fulfilling month for me; settling into a new school, getting together with friends, making this apartment into a home, and finding hidden gems around the neighbourhood. Spendings Report: $2,738 The biggest cost was a week-long trip to Shanghai to see a friend…
I’m nesting! Spendings Report: $3, 541 It’s furnishing month! I moved into the new apartment before the summer and got about half of the much-needed things in such as a deep clean and basic bedding. This month I completed the rest of the big fixes like cleaning the AC units, fixing the leaking shower door,…
I’m finally back in Canada! I’ve just been spending 90% of my time at home with my parents and grandparents making up for the last 4 years of covid, the other 10% is climbing with my friends here 🙂 Spendings Report: $6,146 The biggest single cost was the $2300 roundtrip tickets from China to Canada…
pain.jpg Yes that is in fact a negative sign in front of the savings portion. My gods, I spent so much money this month that I had a negative savings rate of 30%! NEGATIVE! Spendings Report: $10,315 Top three most costly things in order: I’ve been dealing with dental issues for a while now, and…
I’ve picked up Mandarin classes! The free time I’ve gained by finishing my Master’s I’ve now put towards achieving fluency in my mother tongue yay! I’m really enjoying it so far, it helps that I’m now at the level where I can read about 60-70% of online comments and feel like a whole new (internet)…
I’VE SUBMITTED THE LAST ASSIGNMENT! Now to nervously await the confirmation of my graduation, I have double, triple, quadruple checked all the things I need to do but I have this nightmare vision that I’m going to find out I failed to hand in a form or complete one last quiz or something. I don’t…
I’ve applied to graduate and fingers crossed everything goes smoothly! It’s weird to think that next month I won’t have readings waiting for me after work or assignments I must complete over the weekend. I’m going to have to get a real personality outside of girl-who-is-doing-her-masters, now taking suggestions. With the news that I’ve been…