March 18 Today I didn't go to my workplace because I had a writing course in downtown Toronto. What I expected before I arrived there was I could get a sense of how to write things clearly to reflect what I think. I even thought that if it weren't be like what I expected, I would leave after lunch break. However, what I hadn't expected was I met one of my classmates during that course, so even though the course was a kind of boring, I still had kept sitting there until it was over around 4 pm. After that course, I had a coffee with my classmate. We talked about how our lives have been going these months and our future plans. She's a little bit talkative but I felt OK because I can't get many chances to speak Mandarin in my regular day. It felt really great to express ideas without thinking about sentence structure, grammar and so on so forth when speaking your native language. Everything just flowed out smoothly. I hope someday in the near future I can speak English like this. It usually takes time and effort. Expanding vocabulary may be a good way because most of the time I just feel I can't find a proper word in my mind to exactly express what I want to say. Do you guys think there are any other shortcuts to meet my goal?