| Hello from London!
Dear friends,
How're you?
Hope you are doing well despite the fluctuation or rumour in the economic sector these days. Numbers may jump but we still have our good life!
It has been nearly a week since my arrival in London last Friday. The weather is fine and the place I'm living in is amazingly good and homey. It takes me abt 30 mins to get to school (in central london) but the fresh food produce I get in my area is relatively "cheap".
I'm studying MSc Globalization and Development in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for a year in case you don't know why I am suddenly now in London instead of remaining as civil servant. I have enrolled and taken up another language--Arabic. This is a real challenge--to complete something I didn't do when I was in Morocco. Even before school starts (next week), I am picking up the global ascent. I'm watching Al Jazeera (highly recommended!) as my daily news digest. I'm meeting people from ALL around the world in the campus, e.g. Saudi Arabia, Pakistine, Egypt, Europe, Japan, Korea. In the endless queue on the enrollment day, I talked to two English guys. Thought that they were "normal" English students, I asked them about their studies. One has been studying Persian poets and will be taking the ancient near east master programme; the other one is studying Linguistic and he can read and speak Hebrew, Latin and French. Whao! This is really the place for international studies! Although SOAS is a small school and the Vernon campus is like a prison, I like it a lot. Compact.
From the basic readings I'm doing now, 100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World and The Clash of Barbarisms, I am exposed to areas I didn't know before and my rooted beliefs are being challenged. We thought that we are knowing more in this century with the advancement of technology, freedom of press and free flow of information. We maybe knowing less as we are told to believe what is true. The $700 billion is worth spent? What is the making of the crisis? Is this making the world a better place?
There are so many questions yet to be answered. I think that this is going to be an exciting and mind-widening journey. This is such a precious opportunity that I do treasure very much and would like to share with you my every feeling. It is not the email takes me time but the mailing list. If you find that I have missed anyone, please, please help me to forward to them. You can always see my update on facebook though. :)
Even when I was already on the flight to Heathrow, I was wondering what I would be doing this year. I was shaky and I did not know what lie ahead. But you know, God is leading step by step. I start to feel that my brain starts to yawn after lying dormant for quite some time. So, no worried, my friends. You may not know why and how; you will know it when it's the time.
Excited. Nervous. Thrilled. Anticipated.
I miss you. Take care.
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Yours,
Samkee, Irene, Cheng
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