Roommate

Hua-Chen moved to her new dorm yesterday. I miss her already. Monday night she invited two of her classmates over for dinner. I helped make the fried rice and joined them for dinner. One of her classmates, Hua-Dong made soup and the other, Anna, brought ice cream. It was a really good meal.

This is basically the end of their Masters program. For the next few months, they're supposed to be writing their thesis. But since all their classes are over and many people have to continue to do experiments in clinics back home, not many people are staying in Berlin. It's kinda sad for them, I guess. They spent more than 10 months studying, traveling, and living together. Both of Hua-Chen's friends were leaving the next day. Well, it's not as bad as it sounds though. Many of them will be coming in and out of Europe. There's a conference in August that a few of them will be going to. Hua-Chen's new room is filled with luggages from six different people.
The plan for Tuesday was that I come back from work at 5pm and Hua-Chen and I would move everything to her new place by 6pm. She had an appointment with the housemasters to get her key. But Anna needed a place to store her stuff so she got the key for Hua-Chen. Anna and another classmate, Artem would come at 8pm to return Anna's bike and help Hua-Chen move. So in the meantime, the two of us made dinner. Hua-Chen made pancakes which we spread with Sarah's caramel and whipped cream and ate like crepes. I made some noodles that weren't very good.

On the way to Hua-Chen's new place, I got to know Anna and Artem some more. They are both really cool people. Anna's Russian and left for home right after we helped Hua-Chen move in. I'm not sure what nationality Artem is but he speaks a lot of languages including English, German, Chinese, Arabic, and probably more. They are linguists but I continue to be impressed by the amount of languages that they know. Hua-Chen speaks Chinese and English fluently (no accent) and 5-10 minutes of Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Catonese, Spanish, Dutch, and probably French too. Wei-Ming speaks French as well and is living in France for the next month. Jealous. I never really realize how useful it is to speak many languages.