Live loose, don't lose!

1.申請國際駕照: 只要三百塊而且馬上可以拿。雖然不一定會開到車(其實也不建議)，
不過這個在美國可以當作Photo ID使用，比帶護照方便且風險較小


2.信用卡:市面上其實有幾家不用跨國手續費/手續費很少反而極點得到的優惠還比換匯手續費好的銀行，可以去研究看看

It’s really hard to comment this program.

First of all, it’s very expensive- $6000 US dollars,

not including flight tickets and the expense in Yosemite National Park for the last three days of this program- let along extra costs you may spend like shopping or having something special rather than the cafeteria of the dorm.

7/28

net service fee $75

Despite we slept very late last night, we still got up at seven o'clock today since today is the day we're not only leaving Yosemite but the states as well for Taiwanese students.



So in the morning we picked up our luggage, got on the bus and waved goodbye to Yosemite.

This morning Yali found that her bags were stolen.

We thought it was human but later we knew it was taken by the bears since her bags were found outside and being torn.

There are really bears here!!!!

Only twenty students can go climbing half dome today.



But they also planned other short round hikes for other studnets.

So it's comming to the last few days of this program.

And we are going to Yosemite National Park to enjoy three relaxing days before the final day of this program.

8/23

I slept very late last night, like always.

And Kazuki too, as always.

So we went around the dormitory.

Finally everyone finished his final presentation today.

And after EC class, we went on a picnic and relaxed ourselves in the DC class along with section four, the other section that shared the same teachers as we did.

We found a volleyball court and picniced at the table beside the volleyball court.

Really nothing happened today in the morning since that every class was taking the final presentations.

I thought about something like going to SF or having another exploration of Stanford campus.

But there's another activity tonight so that I quited the plan and went to the gym playing bassketball with others instead, and we met some other residents and other students from Taiwan, participating in ALC2 and enjoyed playing basketball with them.

Today is my final presentation of this program.

Of course it took place in John's EC class

And actually last week we played a little game to decide the order who's going to give his presentation first.

Nothing special happened today.

Because everyone's final draft is dued today.

I didn't finished my final draft before sending it to Melanie.

Today is Sunday.

And it's another activity I've been looking forward to joining for a long time.

It's going to the beach!!

This Saturday is another big activity for ALC students, it's day to go to great America!



It's the most famous and biggest amusement park in southern Califonia.

It's almost a routine that nothing special enough for me to record here happened in the morning and afternoon.

So let's start with what's going on tonight.

In the original plan, I would go see the circus tonight, which I already booked the ticket before this program actually started.

Still nothing special here in the morning and in the afternoon.

The first part is because that classes here are really not that hard and it has already become some kind of daily routine- which you just show up there, listening but didn't get anything new special actually.

While in the afternoon it was just that I can't find anyone to hang out with- I had little interest in doing vounteer works, and I wasn't chosen to join the activities I'm interested in like company visiting or that kind of activities which I think I can see something new.

After finishing the classes in the morning, we had the discussion classes in the afternoon- the last one.

So we took picture after the last class.

Today I spotted a gossip scene!!!



The art to take pictures is really interesting!!

@ the group meeting last night, everyone was so shocked to find it's already half of the program.

Unbelievable!!

However, no matter how sad it is to discover this "incovenient truth", we still have to face the upcoming Monday blue~"~

Today is the shopping day which I've been looking forward to for so long.

Actually most things here are almost the same price as in Taiwan, not as cheap as I expected.

However, they have some kind of shopping place called "outlet" here, where things are just cheap!