Mid-term exam! I did pretty good I think. Ran home to download awesome American pride songs for the picnic like “Put me in Coach”, “Proud to be an American”, “Born in the USA”, “America the Beautiful”, etc. Had a great time at the IES sponsored cookout with all the other American students, but decided not [...]
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 [...]
Monday: Met a man that lives on the floor underneath where I take classes named Francis (American
name). He was very friendly with his bad English and suggested we become language partners. The catch is
that when I attempted to reply in Chinese, he just kept speaking in English. Additionally, he has a
southern accent that is different [...]
Sunday: Just got back from a run to The Summer Palace about 4 miles away. Nice weather and I didn’t have to take a language placement test for obvious reasons. It would have been easy to grade though. Anyway, I ran along the canal that connects the Forbidden city to the Summer [...]
