Got up at 8 ish, though I was a bit sluggish getting moving.
Spent much of the morning studying characters, although to a break midmorning to grab some food. It was a nice day; I finished watching the movie (a world without thieves) and the ending was quite good.
At 1pm, Lucia came over and we went over vocabulary for about an hour. Read over all the dialogs, and I am feeling reasonably ready for the test.
At 3, I met with Sun yu, my disp tutor. We met in one of the coffee shops on campus, and talked about the plan for research. We came up with task items, on my part mostly coming up with sets of interview questions, and doing some reading into IP law in both US and china. She was able to contact an independent film maker she knows, and also said that interviews with street vendors and consumers would be easy to get. When I have free time I’ll try and track down some other interesting subjects, hopefully some of the professors that wrote maze, the large online p2p network.
Came back for a bit, watched ‘the guild’ with sergio and rebecca while studying some of the next lesson. Went out to dinner after that.
Got back at about 6:30, and left after a few minutes to go to the orchestra concert I was signed up for.
It was quite good, there was a full orchestra, and it seemed that one of the violin players was a special guest of some sort.
Most of the songs were disney themes or orchestrations of music, the schedule was:
Pocahontas
The Land Before Time / Dinotopia (one of the two)
(possibly pipi long stoking)
Lotus Lantern
Lion King (Can you feel the love tonight)
Snow White
Black cat
-intermission-
Mulan
Aladdin (A whole new world)
Finding Nemo
Tom & Jerry
Tarzan
(possibly Swan Princess) in three acts
In most cases I didn’t recognize the songs, and the rather than having a single movie clip playing there were a montage of clips accompanying them.
Overall, quite fun.
Came back home at like 9:30, and finished previewing for the 13th lesson, and did another pass through the other 4 before bed.