Last night, about 25 of the kids in my program went out for a night of revelry and American extravagant partying. We went to a club called Song and rented out a VIP room above the dance floor where we could look out over the rest of the club. The whole place was finished in [...]
Return from Inner Mongolia. Class has been pushed back to 10 o’clock because we didn’t arrive by train until around 8am. I didn’t preview very well for the next set of vocab, so I sorta bomb the tingxie quiz (this literally means hear write). The rest of class is fine.
I go to the store to [...]
Thursday: First fairly big exam and out of class early. Only bigger than what our class has had to do since we arrived. The other classes are required to preview between 40 and 60 new words each night, when we only need to learn around 20. Keep in mind that each word consists of, on [...]
Satuday June 7: Woke up at around 630, which was just right for a breakfast and cell phone run. The RA’s took some of us to a street vendor serving a sort of Chinese pancake (thin batter about 18 inches in diameter, smeared egg on top, for spicy add pepper paste and herbs, [...]
Wednesday: That 50 dollar bike ended up having some screws loose … none too bad, just the handle
bars and the seat, haha. I got it fixed myself by taking it back to the shop and shaking the loose pieces. They still don’t have a longer bar for the seat. Talked to dad on skype. It [...]
