March 10

Thursday I didn't have a seminar in the morning, which I was happy about, so I got to sleep in and then go to my noon class on research methods. It's pretty boring material and I'm a bit scared how much statistical analysis it's going to require, but oh well. We basically learned the same stuff we did last week, which was odd and then he told us to draw a picture of a house, tree, mountains, sun, river and snake! After we were finished he told us it was a personality test and what each of the items "represents":
House - Detail is your willingness to settle down or lack of detail means that you always want to travel, etc.
Tree - Represents your social connections. Lots of detail/branches means that you have lots of friends, big tree shape with no detail means you have lots of acquaintances but few that you consider super close.
Mountains - The ups and downs in your life, sharp peaks and deep valleys or everything's groovy with rolling hills?
Sun - Size represents your energy level and the rays represent your willingness to give to others.
River - This is the amount of control you have over your life. A river that goes up and down on the page, means that you have little control, one that goes across the page means lots of control
Snake - This represents sexuality. And the wiggles represent how sexy you are.

Here's my drawing:

My friend Andy drew a snake that covered more than half of the page, and breathed fire and was quite scary! We all laughed hysterically when we found out what it meant.

After class, I headed home and didn't have much time before I got ready to go out for Andy's International Students BBQ. There were only about 14 of us there, but very mixed: 3 Thai, 2 Tawainese, 2 Korean, 2 French and 2 American. There is finally another American in my class and so I was happy to meet him and get to talk in regular American English instead of broken Asian-accented English! haha. We went out to the bars afterwards and then I headed home in a taxi around midnight.