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I know there are two ways at looking at a situation.

You can complain.
or
You can look at the bright side.

I'm trying to look at the bright side and I will do what I can. There's just no way I would ever ship off my baby to another country. I would never do that. I am just gonna take it the hard way and do what I can. I know it would be easier to have her stay with grandma and grandpa overseas, but I can't do that because I love my baby a lot. I want to be there to see her grow and learn. I don't understand how parents can do that. I just can't fathom.

:(

My mother-in-law is leaving again. She doesn't want to stay here because of a lot of reasons. I think she would have stayed at least until December, but my father-in-law is not holding up so well by himself.

So I guess we have to go at it again by ourself. It's just much different this time because I'm actually registered full time now. And I am at school for long hours. Most days I am at school for 12-13 hours. Some weekends I am at school too. It's just ridiculous. I don't even want to think what will happen when the Perio Program starts.

I just wanna get done with school so bad. Like really bad. Whatever hardship I face, I am determined to fight my way through.

Naked baby

I don't know how she's doing it, but she's been taking off her shirt a lot. This time, she was just playing happily shirtless in her crib. The other night, she was sleeping shirtless.

I am just puzzled at how she did this because she won't show us when we are around. She's really smart.

Does she have potential?

Hungry fish

The fish are swimming on top of each other fighting for food. This looks more disturbing and gross in person because some of them were actually out of the water or partially out.

Pictures

Bananas do grow upside down.




Best Sashimi in the town (I've never had anything like this in America; there is no comparison and it's no wonder why I don't like it in America)




Caviar (why all the hype about it?)



Sweet fruit



Restaurant with a Chinese traditional theme

New Car

I needed a car so we decided to go with a Mazda 5. Other choices we considered were the Honda Fit, Toyota Yaris, Corolla, and Camry, and Nissan Sentra and Rogue. What made me go with this car is that it is really versatile for a good price. When I first saw this car in person, I was really impressed. There are three rows of seats available or a huge trunk space available (second and third row seats folded are big enough for a bike). I have never driven a Mazda before so I am excited to see what this car can offer. Take a look for yourself.

clipped from www.mazdausa.com

Sliding doors

clipped from www.mazdausa.com

Three rows of seats

clipped from www.mazdausa.com

Trunk is big enough for a bike

Updates

I have good news and bad news.

Good news first: I think I passed this summer semester. :) My teacher assessed a patient as a one even though she said this would have been an assessment of zero for the fall because it was a harder case, she gave it to me. And I completed the patient in two appointments! Sweet! :)

Bad news: My car is TOTALED. I am without a car now.

and now I don't know what to do...

Before my teacher told this to me (see post below), I was worried about what to do with my baby. I've looked at my schedule for next semester and it's packed with really long days. I'm already getting home really late as it is. I'm unable to spend time with the baby and unable to get all my homework done. So we were thinking about leaving her in Taiwan (she's not getting quality care here)... but I don't really want to leave her there! I wanted his mom to come here again and try it out. But there were some problems with that too.

But now I don't even care about that because it's more important that I pass first!!! If I don't pass, there would be no reason for my baby to stay in Taiwan...

Also, I already got the tuition bill for next semester. I'm not going to pay it until I find out if I make it to the next semester or not. It's so much money; more than I anticipated. And that's probably because every time a person gets dropped from the program (4 people so far), the tuition gets increased for those who are still in the program because the teachers need to get paid. Yes that's true.

Anyway, that's enough complaining for now.

I will NOT pass this semester...

...if I don't find someone who is harder to do. I need to find someone who is a 1, 2, or 3 in sub which means I need someone who has tartar below the gumline (6+ teeth). If I don't find such a patient, I'm out of the program (YES, my instructor said that during our 1-on-1 talk). All the patients I've had thus far are zero in sub.

And that's final. I'm worried because there are only a few weeks left of this semester.

HELP! otherwise I may not make it...