Saturday
Yesterday, I spent most of the morning just walking around campus with people from my group. Didn't see or do anything exciting. Then in the afternoon we met with our profesor and a local police officer mostly to go over some laws for foreigners. We then met with our buddies. I thought we each got an individual buddy but apparantly our group gets a group of buddies. One guy I met seemed really nice he had at one time taught Chinese history so we talked a lot about that. After that I moved into my new room with someone else from my program which is nice because he speaks English.
I started today by taking my language placement exam and I got placed in to the beginner's class which sucks. I already know a lot of what they will be teaching. On the other hand it could be really good to start from the beginning and get the foundations. Plus, it will be easier so it'll take me less time to do homework.
But before my placement test me and my new roommate had breakfast from a street vendor. I had something very similar to a hash brown and he had a meat bun. My item came out to 1/2 a yuan which comes out to about $0.06. Then for lunch I had some bao zi which is a fried dumpling with meat on the inside. It was very good. After lunch a group of us went into a couple stores selling DVDs of mostly American moves for $0.75 each. So if there is any movie you ever thought about wanting to see tell me and I'll see what I can do.
Before lunch today we saw some clothes hanging in a tree which was very odd to us. In China few people have dryers so they just hang their clothes to dry. Apparantly some people hang them up in a tree. They use a 20 foot pole to get the clothes in and out of the tree which looks somewhat ridiculous to a westerner. This is also benifical in that keeps people from stealing clothes outside drying.
I started today by taking my language placement exam and I got placed in to the beginner's class which sucks. I already know a lot of what they will be teaching. On the other hand it could be really good to start from the beginning and get the foundations. Plus, it will be easier so it'll take me less time to do homework.
But before my placement test me and my new roommate had breakfast from a street vendor. I had something very similar to a hash brown and he had a meat bun. My item came out to 1/2 a yuan which comes out to about $0.06. Then for lunch I had some bao zi which is a fried dumpling with meat on the inside. It was very good. After lunch a group of us went into a couple stores selling DVDs of mostly American moves for $0.75 each. So if there is any movie you ever thought about wanting to see tell me and I'll see what I can do.
Before lunch today we saw some clothes hanging in a tree which was very odd to us. In China few people have dryers so they just hang their clothes to dry. Apparantly some people hang them up in a tree. They use a 20 foot pole to get the clothes in and out of the tree which looks somewhat ridiculous to a westerner. This is also benifical in that keeps people from stealing clothes outside drying.
posted by Aaron at 2:00 PM
2 Comments:
Good to hear everything is going well in China. I'm jealous about the exchange rate (as I'm sure Ben and Amanda are).
FYI: Be careful about buying DVDs. They may be set to the Asian region code. Each region has a different code, and you can only switch most players five times, meaning you'd have to designate a DVD player for bootlegs from Asia if they come with that particular code. I'm not sure how to tell, but Ian would be able to tell you more.
Clothes in a tree? Does this save as opposed to hanging a line? Are you in a large city, or smaller? Is there a lot of green space, or more "cityscape"? Ok, I'll stop with the questions... Glad to hear that you're enjoying yourself and that you got a roomate who's easier to communicate with
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