The post below this one, you’ll find a fairly lengthy account of my trip to Yunnan, but in case you don’t take the time to read it, I am back in Beijing. We got back last Wednesday night, and I’ve been ridiculously busy ever since. Thursday was supposed to be our day off to recuperate, but my business class scheduled 3 hours of make-up time, followed by an hour roommate “orientation” and an hour and a half “mixer” with the Chinese roommates, all of whom had come back to campus upon our arrival. So, my time to prepare for Fridays presentation and finish up my homework from the trip was limited.
On Friday, we were introduced to our tutors. We are supposed to meet with our tutors for 4 hours each week. Hopefully, these sessions will be helpful. Saturday night my friends and I decided to treat ourselves, so we went out for a nicer dinner (by which I mean it cost 18 kuai instead of 10 kuai – about a $1 difference), and then grabbed a taxi to a shopping center/movie theater area where we ate at a Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream (costing more than in the States at 70 kuai ($10) for 3 scoops!). Monday night after class, we had another 3 hours (from 6:00 to 9:00) of business class, at which time we had to give presentations about Yunnan. This, of course, is all on top of our regular Chinese homework and dictation quizzes. So, as you can see, I haven’t had much time to get these posts together until now.
Back in Beijing, the pollution is as bad as ever, and the fact that it’s now warming up isn’t helping either. Our program director actually sent us all text messages yesterday advising us not to go outside. In any case, we’re back into the swing of things, and I’m starting to worry that my time here won’t be enough! (Perhaps looking into staying longer???—I don’t know)
I’ll try to get all of my Yunnan pictures up today as well, but no promises!
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