Working as a summer rcc takes up more time than my technical coordinator position. And I didn\’t realize how many foreign students come to Berkeley during the summer. I have seen computers in German, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean for the last two days. It\’s not that enjoyable to navigate a computer by memory (remembering which icon means my computer, which menu is tools in IE, what dialog boxes say). It\’s odd how during the year I didn\’t think I read that much when using a computer…but that shows how dependent language is in a computer.

But the worse thing is how I feel a slight tinge of regret that I didn\’t learn any languages during college. And even worse, I am beginning to feel embarassed about how I can\’t speak Cantonese that fluently. I can understand the language, but what comes out of my mouth is broken and very accented. Today while fixing a computer, I heard a group of Hong Kong girls complaining in Cantonese about how I was so slow and how it took forever. I suddenly said aloud (in English) that their compromised computers NEEDED a lot of time to be fixed. *cough*