It takes everything of mine to learn a new language I work in HK, ppl here normally work 5.5 days a week, unfortunately, I'm one of them. If I have the chance to choose again, I would still choose HK, but it's painful to have no weekends for a Christian. I don't have stay ups, because I have to get up early everyday. Church on Sunday almost would take me the whole day, so Saturday afternoon would be my only chance to take a nap and do the house cleaning. I really miss the old days of college, when I could go hiking, swimming and outdoors. Now since I have the schedule of learning Brazil Portuguese, I have to squeeze time for it, they say 7pm-11pm are the chance for you to do better than others, I say they are the chance for me to get screwed. Gosh, I never thought learning a language would be that hard, the pronunciation, grammar, all the memorizing exercises, and homework I made up for my own. But it totally worth it, I miss the old time when I started learning English at middle school under the guidance of a teacher. Although there're two exchange partners here(English-Portuguese, Mandarin-Portuguese), the two there seem not that interest in this, I call it a thing they say, not a thing they actually do. Okay, stop all the complaining, I made it, 2 weeks, with slow progress, but I managed to be alive! phew! Come on, Fay, you can make it! learn it! and go night hiking to make a change to your life!