update my life 10th August 2013 I haven't used this website for almost 2 years I guess....since I was in London doing my undergraduate degree and studied my ass off. Well actually I didn't study much until the final year but was occupied by something else. My 3rd year was very intense and I had to study under immense stress but luckily I got a first in the end. Right now I need to do applications to masters and I'm just stressing myself out again. How do you deal with stress? You know there are lots of people out there who suffer from procrastination of all levels and I can shamelessly say I've had one of the worst in the past yrs. (shameless coz I don't procrastinate much right now) It seems so easy and ridiculous for people who's born without it, but for some people it's like a freaking nightmare that's impossible to get rid of. I've been reading books on this topic as well and doing my task list every day, which really helped me with my exams. However I feel like as long as I am still intolerant with stress this would just come back and haunt me all my life. I wonder if italki offers really advanced English tutoring, as in academic/business English writing. My undergraduate degree was BSc and my essays are awful compared my friend who's done BA for 3 yrs. Right now I struggle with my personal statement since I need it to impress the admission officers. Something unrelated. I totally wanna go live in Sweden, for now. Go vanish in the snow and darkness while I plan out my personal statement. oh yeah and I miss Greece too.

First notebook entry: Introducing myself I'm a Chinese 19-year-old and I've basically lived in china all my life. I've just been in London for a few months, the uni is cool and I study economics, the course is cool as well apparently. Chinese is my mother tongue and whether it's formal or casual Chinese that you want to learn I would be able to provide decent advises. Anyway, I'm pretty interested in French and Japanese but it would hard to learn them from here while I know barely anything about them. So why I want to learn English, coz I find it hard to understand what my friends are saying sometimes and that makes me reluctant to talk. I don't know about slangs, don't know about some specific expressions and that makes me feel really bad and prevent me from having a proper social life. Besides, academic English is also something I would like to improve. If anyone wants to learn Chinese I would love to help and if anyone's willing to help me I would really appreciate it. and I check my email everyday. :)