Studied for most of the morning. Basically got through all of the 10th lesson, and got the math homework done.
Had a good lunch and then went to class at 2pm.
It was disp class, so we got to find out changes they wanted to our proposal and who our research tutors are. I got 98% and 100% on my two proposals, and got assigned a tutor for the intellectual property one, although she wasn’t there. She’s apparently a law school student, which makes her as qualified as anyone to help me.
The rest of that class wasn’t the most exciting, they had us talk about our trip to anhui, and the cultural differences we observed while there. Overall no particularly exciting revelations.
Afterward I refilled my thermos (having a thermos of tea is really nice) and went to chinese class. Did fine on the dictation, and the class was about the same as always. At the end we went to dinner with our teacher, and held the last 15 minutes of class in the dining hall while we were eating. It was nice, a bit less formal than in the class room, since we were just discussing the text that went with the chapter.
She also teaches for other programs, and had spent the morning teaching a group of 8 americans who were learning chinese for the first time.
Came back this evening, and have been studying the 11th lesson all evening. It’s the longest one we’ve hit yet, so it’s sort of a shame it got pushed into one of the slots where we have less time to study.
At 8:30 Joe and I walked over to where we thought the taiji practices were held, but couldn’t find them. I’ve been in email contact with one of the taiji students I met when we were doing our classes, and I sent him an email asking were they are taking place.
not much else going on; Although there’s lots of excitement coming up on the horizon now that I’ve got a couple tickets to plays and will be going to a museum on friday.
Tomorrow evening I’ll meet with my math tutor, thursday we’ve got our first calligraphy class.