Mea's Writing

 So~ With DELTA module one dead to me (until I get the results in 6-8 weeks), Imma have to plan my next steps. I have my summer MFA classes that continue for another few weeks. I definitely need to polish up some poems for those workshops. Then there's a free little MFA summer workshop thing I joined that I want to create more work in. My wedding ceremony August 6th, but even before that I have to go to Henan for my husband to be the best man at his friend's wedding at the end of June. So I might be in Henan from the end of June through August. Living with my husband's second sister... sweet lady, but I'm not a fan of her kids or living with someone else for that long. I'd rather waste away at a hotel for a month and blow through my savings. Which reminds me, my wedding isn't even put together yet. We just chose a host the other day (Chinese weddings have a host, it seems like they... announce the couple and everything?) and still have to choose the decorations....

 June 2nd, 2021. It was ugh, as expected. I'm a bit relieved though that the people I studied with on the BELL program also struggled with it. This morning I realized I got some of my phonemic script wrong 😨 The test itself wasn't the complete train wreck I thought it would be, in that I was able to answer everything. Many people seemed to struggle with time in paper one, but I actually finished that one too earlier, so I had plenty of time to go back and expand on things and check my answers. Totally wound up being a good thing, as I almost missed that task five had a task c ii area! The testing center was at the British Council in Chongqing, which... was basically a fucking shell of a floor. It looks like they only really use half of the building floor for council services, mainly IELTS and other forms of testing (like DELTA). The Welsh council side is a fucking tomb. Not shit over there except some sad glass walls. Wales has finally escaped Britain! But only in China. If th...