Yukon Jay - 小祥

To Do List

The Asia-Pacific Summit went well. I only went one day because Alexandra couldn't make it, and asked me to fill in for her. Theme was "Global Asia" with the rise of China & India. Won't get too much into it, but an interesting fact I learned: despite American involvement with Iraq and Middle East, Bush makes more phone calls to the Chinese president Hu Jintao than anybody else. During the summit luncheon, guest speaker was American Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry on a live feed from Vienna to update us on the NATO mission in Afghanistan. Also thanked Canada for our soldiers, who make up 2nd largest force there. Educated in US and China, very articulate, intelligent and gave a good presentation... He also spoke Chinese to us in the end. I want him commanding my army when I conquer the world. Also heard Ambassadors talk which was a nice change from some of the academics and business people.

I'm feeling a bit stressed. Here's what I've got on the go beside the weekly reading and papers.

1) Humanties - Kyoto: 12 pages on Kyoto Protocol and Japan's domestic policy on climate change due next Friday.

2) China Geography: 15 pages on social unrest/protests as a result of environmental disasters in China using political ecology, due Dec 6. I picked this topic because want to do it for grad studies, so I've already invested a lot of time into this.

3) Asia-Canada: 10 pages on something... haven't even talked about yet due Dec 4 (I think).

4) 4 presentations after my Humanities paper.

5) 200 refugees have arrived in Vancouver and I will be working with my partner starting in a week or two. So far just been to orientation.

6) And the usual work hours.

Also just started dating Andrea and its going well so far. Anyways, trying to keep my complaining to a bare minimum because I'm 24 and feel like I should be doing my Masters at UBC, and the workload is easily doubled. This is just training.

Posted by Jay at November 2, 2006 02:35 PM