Today was a good day again. It was slightly overcast and a lot less humid, so the weather was so good that I could wear PANTS!!! Omgosh, amazing, I know. I was so happy.
So in the morning we went to class as usual, and the professor talked about the US-China trade situation from a Chinese perspective. I felt really bad because today, the professor’s English was REALLY bad so he struggled a lot to find the words, and there would be LONNNGGGG pauses between each word and it was just a REALLY slow lecture, so everyone was falling asleep and…I just felt so bad for the guy. Like I would be writing notes, and then he’d pause for a LONG time, so I would look up again to see if he was still there or if something happened, and he was just thinking of a word. It was so awkward….and he read EVERYTHING directly from his slides, so it wasn’t like listening really helped you grasp a better understanding either. And then, at the end, one of the students asked a question and he TOTALLY didn’t understand it, so he sat there thinking for like 15 minutes and he kept asking the student to clarify the question, but the student didn’t understand his English and what he was asking for, so it was just terrible….omgosh it was like the awkwardest lecture yet.
ANYWAYS, after that lecture, we had to go back to the hotel to get ready for our company visits! We had our first two company visits today. It was all fancy-pants, so we had to dress in our business attire and everything. We went to SMIC (a semiconductor manufacturing company) and Roche (a pharmaceutical company). SMIC was kinda cool…they talked a lot about the good things their company is doing, and it almost felt like we were investors and they were showing us a presentation on the company to get us to invest in it. But it was kinda cool…they said that SMIC bought a lot of land and made it sort of like a community of workers & their families, because there’s a supermarket, shopping center, schools, and everything all within the company’s land, so it’s sort of like a college town. I thought that was kind of cool. And also, as part of their plan to go green, they use goats and sheep to eat their grass instead of using lawnmowers. And they use ducks to clean their waters. Hehehe :) After that, we went to Roche, but it was like the research branch of Roche, so the employees gave presentations on a lot of chemistry and molecular biology that we didn’t understand. But it was cool because afterwards, they gave us a tour of their facility and we got to see the labs and the equipment that they work with everyday. So I thought that was a lot more fun than SMIC, even though SMIC was a MUCH nicer facility and a lot more professional.
After that, we went to a shopping center nearby (I don’t know the name of it) and we walked around looking for a place to eat. We ended up eating in the sort-of food court they had, and it was really good. I got some spicy beef/seafood thing with rice, but there was TONS of other stuff I wanted to try. The food courts here are so goooood J And my meal was less than $3, even though it was A LOT of food.
Tomorrow is our last day with the migrant students and cultural exchange students :( :( :( Tao, Tiffany, Michael, and Alex are going home, so tomorrow will be the last day I see them…Chris and Ariel are staying here for summer vacation, so I think I will try to meet up with them over the course of the next month that I’m here. But it’s so sad…I was so close with my team. I think we were probably the closest team, because we hung out all the time even when it wasn’t required. It’s going to be so weird when they’re gone…I’m definitely not looking forward to it.
BUT, tomorrow me and Joanna’s mommys are coming!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m SUPER excited for that :) We plan to go to Hangzhou and Suzhou this weekend, and Beijing next weekend :) I am SOOO EXCITEDDD!!! And our mothers LOVE to eat, so I know we’re going to eat SUPER well over this next week and a half. HAHA :)
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