Today the moms left :( So sad. We ate breakfast with them and Raintree, and then we went to class, and they left while we were at class. Class today was fun though..I was SO tired though, because I haven’t been getting much sleep…so I was dozing off a little bit. But today we learned more finals, initials, and pinyin and also some vocab words (teacher, to be, to drink, etc). Just simple stuff. Stuff I kinda already learned from being here for a month already. But anyways, class is pretty fun. I actually thought it would be a lot faster paced, since it’s only a month long, but the teachers are going pretty slow. Maybe because they’re trying to make sure we have a good foundation for the sounds and stuff. Maybe we’ll go faster later.
Anyways, after class we went out to lunch with a bunch of the students. There were like 7 Norwegian people, me and Joanna, 2 Dutch students, 1 Japanese student, and 1 Singaporean student. Apparently the Norwegians are all here on a program, like 20 of them, for international marketing. They’re going to be here for a year studying international marketing at Fudan in a special program or something. So that’s why theres so many of them. And then the Dutch students are brother and sister, and they’re Chinese-Dutch (like I’m Chinese-American) but they don’t know Chinese either. So their family and them vacationed here for a couple weeks, and now they’re enrolled in this program. The Japanese guy is here indefinitely, because his dad opened some sort of business in China and now he’s trying to learn Chinese to work for his dad. So his wife and kid are moving over later (he’s 24…but he has a wife and kid! Crazy, huh?) I didn’t get to talk to the Singaporean guy much, but I think he’s here to learn Chinese. I guess he’s kinda like me and Joanna, cuz he just wants to learn his own language. Yeah, it was really interesting going to eat lunch with them..they’re a REALLY diverse group of people. But it was pretty fun. And they’re all really friendly. I’m sure we’ll be hanging out with them more later.
So now that my mom is gone and I have pretty free days, i think it’s time I start buckling down and studying. I really want to get good at this language, or at least to be able to have a conversation with someone when I get back home. I don’t know if that’s a realistic goal, but I’m def gonna try. Which means I need to start listening, reading, writing, and basically eating and breathing Chinese. it’s gonna be a lot of hard work and a lot of hours studying…but hopefully I can do it.
Tonight we’re going to eat dinner with one of the Chinese students. I’ve never formally met her, but she’s Joanna’s friend. Her name is Desiree. I think her name sounds cool…I wonder how she picked it. Anyways, me, Geneva, and Joanna are gonna meet with her tonight. Hopefully it wont be too long though…I’ve been SO tired lately all I want to do is sleep. I want to go to sleep at like 8pm today. -__- anyways. Time to start studying. I feel like such a nerd.
[10:51pm]
I just finished eating dinner and watching a movie with my friends. We went to Wanda Plaza with Teddy and Desiree and just ate at the food court there…I had a sandwich, because I’m starting to get sick of Chinese food. Also, there’s a lot of oil in the food here so I’m getting sick of that too. It makes the food all greasy and slimy.
After that, we went to watch the new Harry Potter movie! Yes, it was in English. I wouldn’t go see it if it wasn’t. It was pretty fun actually. Going to see the movie, not the movie itself. The movie itself was whatever, partly because I don’t care much for Harry Potter in the first place and partly because I thought it was kind of boring. There was no climax or anything, so when it ended I was just kind of like, “That’s it?” But anyways, going to see the movie was fun. The theaters here are a lot nicer than the theaters at home. Well, maybe they’re not nicer. They had a lot cooler lights and stuff. And the chairs were really comfortable. But I liked it because it felt like I was back in America again. When we were watching the movie, it didn’t feel like I was a foreigner, so it felt better. I think I’m really starting to miss being at home...and doing normal stuff with my American friends. Not that I don’t love the people I’m meeting here, but I miss being at home. Everything’s a lot different here, especially because I don’t know how to speak the language. It just makes things a lot more inconvenient. Maybe if I could speak the language I’d feel better about being here. I think these next few weeks will pass by quickly though…especially if I’m so intent on studying a lot of the time. At least I HOPE they will pass by quickly. I’m getting very tired of Chinese people.
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